Daily Archives: April 28, 2013

Solar shakeout: Banks pull LDK subsidiary Sunways’ credit facilities

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Ritesh Pothan

Sunways said in a statement that the “current economic situation of the photovoltaics industry and of the company” led to its banks terminating all credit facilities and would exercise rights to unspecified collateral provided by the company that had initially … Continue reading →

Posted in Cells & Modules, PV, Solar | Tagged energy, LDK Solar, LDK Solar Co, photovoltaics industry, Renewable, Solar, Solar PV, Sunways | Leave a comment

Could Kurzweil be right about solar, the Google of energy?

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Ritesh Pothan

Ray Kurzweil presents his cost curves on solar at Berkeley University earlier this month. Paula Mints’ slide doesn’t look a million miles away from one of Kurzweil’s exponential graphs. Cleantech investors often talk about the quest for the ‘Google of … Continue reading →

Posted in Crystalline, PV, Solar | Tagged berkeley university, Google, Googleplex, iPhone, Kurzweil, Larry Page, linear view, Miguel Nicolelis, PV, Ray Kurzweil, Solar PV, united states, william gibson | Leave a comment

Sharp adds 0.2% efficiency to record triple-junction InGaAs solar cell

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Ritesh Pothan

The latest efficiency improvement was due to further indium, gallium, and arsenide material combination optimization that improved light absorption across the various wavelengths. Further tweaks of its triple-junction InGaAs InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide) solar cell have led to Sharp reporting … Continue reading →

Posted in Cells & Modules, PV, Solar | Tagged advanced industrial science, energy conversion efficiency, Gallium, gallium arsenide, Indium, Indium gallium arsenide, industrial technology development, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Sharp Corporation, Solar Cell, Triple junction | Leave a comment

Amonix CPV system breaks peak efficiency record

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Ritesh Pothan

Amonix CPV module has set a new peak efficiency world record. Image: Amonix. Concentrated PV (CPV) manufacturer Amonix claims to have converted a record 36% of sunlight into energy in a module trial at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory … Continue reading →