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Building a Profitable Business Model for CIGS Thin-Film PV |
| Decision points for CIGS survival & success in a crowded PV industryAfter many years of buildup, CIGS companies are finally approaching commercial readiness only to discover that the PV industry is at a significant crossroads. Many of these companies were founded during a time wh... |
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Considerations Implementing Smart PV Modules |
| PV system designers have embraced distributed power electronics to reap additional kWh production, safety, and monitoring granularity. More than two million micro-inverters and DC-side optimizers have been projected to be installed in 20111). As with all other PV system component... |
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Four Rules of Success for Solar Product Outsourcing |
| Hamid Babaei, Director of Customer Engineering and Technology at Sanmina-SCI, has more than 20 years of experience bringing advanced solar technology and products to market quickly and cost-effectively. He reveals four rules for success in solar product outsourcing. |
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Solar Energy Utilization: The Taiwan Perspective |
| As an island in the Pacific Ocean located in the ‘sunbelt’ region, Taiwan is geographically blessed, technologically strong and has in place suitable policies to fully utilize these rich sources of energy. Hampered by a lack of conventional energy resources, the utilization of so... |
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Diversifying into PV: Where to Enter the PV Business? |
| The 21st century has seen significant advances in technology, both in terms of the number, size and increased functionality of electronic devices, and also with regards to the components and materials that make up these devices. In tandem, we have experienced an increased focus o... |
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Solar as an Asset Class: It’s about More than Technology |
| Today, the promise of solar PV is not about technology, but rather about creating the financial, legal and regulatory frameworks that allow for significant cost reduction, especially for the residential and commercial distributed solar sectors. Together with the utility-scale sol... |
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Impact of Japan’s Crisis on PV Market |
| Potential effect of the earthquake and Fukushima crisis on solar PV market in JapanRight before the disasters that struck Northeast Japan, Frost & Sullivan had released the prediction titled ‘Japanese Solar Power Market to Shine in 2011’. They’re telling the latest story about Ja... |
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Doing More with Less |
| Lightweight PV module materials deliver cost-efficiency and performance.The commercial and residential rooftop PV markets are expected to grow over the next few years, with Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) and Building Applied Photovoltaic (BAPV) markets projected to more ... |
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A List of 10 Predictions |
| Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Equity Research, the world’s largest producer of independent equity research, forecasts what will happen next in the solar industry. S&P’s most highly educated guesses help solar players who have yet to determine its position prepare for the remainder of t... |
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Massive Sunbelt Potential for Photovoltaics |
| Photovoltaics is already competitive with some non-renewables today and will become one of the lowest-cost options in less than 20 years, says a study by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association. No longer a luxury novelty for rich nations, it’s a sensible, sustainable solu... |
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