Tracking the US solar PV capacity boom
A survey to be released next week from EuPD Research indicates significant growth in the US for both new and cumulative capacity by 2012 (1840MW and 5182MW, respectively).   More >>

Panel: Investment in renewables will lead US economic recovery
In a joint conference call, the leaders of four renewable energy industry associations put forth five key proposals that they believe are essential elements in helping bring the US out of these dark economically-challenged times and into a bright, clean future.   More >>

iSuppli: Buyer's market for PV raw materials in 2009
Global polysilicon demand will see healthy growth in 2009 but still far behind the explosion of supply, creating "major supply chain imbalances" over the next two years that will send spot prices through the floor, according to industry analyst firm iSuppli Corp.   More >>

Kyocera building 350MW solar cell plant
Construction of Kyocera's new plant in Japan's Shiga Prefecture, to be the group's largest domestic manufacturing facility, is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2009, with production slated to start in the spring of 2010.   More >>

US investment firm seeks majority stake in Chinese solar supplier
Sunrise Consulting is seeking a 60% stake in Sunrise Solartech Co. Ltd., one of China's largest solar PV manufacturers (40MW annual capacity and projected $2M sales in 2008), in a bid to develop inroads into the solar industry and the Americas region.   More >>

Signet Solar rolling out first MW of solar PV panels
Only a month after ramping to high-volume production for its large-area thin-film modules (AMAT's first customer to do so), Signet Solar has shipped the first MW of panels to Germany's alfasolar Vertriebsgesellschaft.   More >>

NanoGram, TEL to make thin-film PV tools
TEL has expanded its relationship with NanoGram Corp. from strategic investor to technology and market development partner, with a new deal to jointly develop advanced thin-film deposition tools based on NanoGram's patented laser reactive deposition process.   More >>

Sunovia, EPIR tout improvements in single-crystal CdTe-on-Si
Sunovia Energy Technologies and EPIR Technologies say process improvements have increased growth rates by >500% for very-high-quality single-crystal CdTe on silicon for multijunction solar cells, taking a step toward their goals of a 20MW manufacturing system.   More >>

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