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First Solar Releases 2023 Sustainability Report
Arizona-based First Solar Inc. has released its 2023 Sustainability Report and established a new industry first benchmark for transparency by publicly disclosing details of...
Maxeon Chooses N.M. for Solar Cell, Panel Production Plant
Maxeon Solar Technologies Ltd., a designer and manufacturer of solar panels, has chosen Albuquerque, N.M., as the location for its first United States manufacturing...
First Solar Makes Major Investment in Cajun Country
First Solar Inc. has chosen the Acadiana Regional Airport in Iberia Parish, La., as the location for its previously announced fifth fully vertically integrated...
Canadian Solar Factory in Texas Gets Large Module Order
Canadian Solar Inc. and independent power producer and service provider EDF Renewables North America have signed a multi-year module supply agreement to deliver up...
Matrix Renewables to Procure First Solar Thin-Film Modules
Matrix Renewables, the TPG Rise-backed global renewable energy platform, has entered into a framework agreement to procure approximately 2.1 GW DC of thin-film modules...
Thornova Steps Up Solar Module Production for U.S.
Thornova Solar, a United States-based provider of bifacial TOPCon and PERC solar modules, is now manufacturing at volume in its Vietnam facility. The company...
Bifacial Perovskite Solar Cells Potentially More Efficient
According to scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a bifacial perovskite solar cell, which allows sunlight to reach...
Energix Renewables in Line for 51 GW of First Solar Modules
Energix Renewables, a company specializing in the development, construction and operation of renewable energy generation projects, has agreed to procure 51 GW DC of...
First Solar Obtains $1 Billion Revolving Credit Facility
First Solar Inc. has entered into a five-year revolving credit and guarantee facility for $1 billion. The facility includes up to $250 million which...
Capital Power Secures 1 GW of First Solar PV Modules
Capital Power has secured its first order of approximately 1 GW DC of thin-film solar modules from First Solar Inc.
The Series 6 Plus modules,...
Bolette Offers Solutions to Floating Solar Problems
Fred. Olsen 1848, a company focused on innovative technologies related to renewable energy, has unveiled its proprietary solution to the challenges of wave and...
NUS Scientists Invent Record Setting Perovskite Solar Cells
A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently designed new perovskite solar cells that have set a world record stabilized...
First Solar Unveils Novel Bifacial Thin-Film PV Module
First Solar Inc. is planning a limited production run of the world’s first bifacial solar panel utilizing an advanced thin-film semiconductor. The fully functional...
LONGi Solar North America Debuts New PV Module in Canada
LONGi, a manufacturer of solar modules and developer of solar power projects, has launched its latest PV module, the Hi-MO 7, in Canada.
Introduced globally...
Orsted is First Developer to Recycle Solar Panels
Orsted has pledged to reuse or recycle all solar panels from its global portfolio of solar farms effective immediately: the world’s first energy developer...
Origami Solar Introduces Next Generation of Module Steel Frame
Origami Solar, developers of a patent-pending steel frame for solar modules, says production samples of its new Gen 2 steel module frame are ready...
Enel to Bring Major PV Manufacturing Facility to Oklahoma
Enel North America, through its affiliate 3Sun USA LLC, has chosen Inola, Okla., as the site of its new industrial-scale manufacturing facility for photovoltaic...
Qcells Strives to Commercialize Tandem Cells
Qcells says it is investing $100 million to accelerate the commercialization of perovskite-based tandem cells – a next-generation solar cell technology designed to boost...
First Solar’s Acquisition of European Company Speeds Development of PV Technology
First Solar Inc. has acquired Evolar AB, a Swedish company specializing in perovskite technology, adding to its advances in thin-film photovoltaics. The purchase price...
TSI Awarded Funds for Solar Window Development
Solar PV manufacturer Toledo Solar Inc (TSI) has been awarded $8.8 million in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy...