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First Solar Primed to Blow Competition Away in 2011

October 22, 2010 by Nathanael Baker
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First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR), already the market leader in thin-film solar modules, has expansion plans that will see it increase its manufacturing capacity over the next two years, further separating itself from its competition. The U.S.-based company has announced it will be adding manufacturing plants in the United States, Vietnam,... [read more]

First Solar Joins S&P 500

October 20, 2009 by Big Gav
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Greentech media has a post on thin film solar company First Solar's booming market capitalisation - First Solar Joins S&P 500.As sales climbed, First Solar filed for an IPO in November 2006. The stock went out at $20 and hit $200 within a year, a trajectory that compares with Google's first year. The economic calamity, among other... [read more]

Plugging Into the Sun

September 25, 2009 by Big Gav
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National Geographic's cover story this month (for readers outside the US) is on solar energy (particularly solar thermal power and thin film solar), noting "Sunlight bathes us in far more energy than we could ever need—if we could just catch enough" - Plugging Into the Sun. A related article is - Can Solar Save Us ? - with a photo... [read more]

Eight Cool Things About Solar That Just Might Change the World - Part 1

September 1, 2009 by WattHead Guest Contributor
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WattHead welcomes new contributor, Kriss Bergethon. An engineer by training now working to educate and empower people with clean energy, Kriss works with SolarSphere.com and will be reporting periodically on solar energy news for WattHead.Rapid changes in the solar power sector are fueling a green energy revolution. With so much... [read more]

Roll-Up Solar Panels

June 7, 2009 by Big Gav
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Technology Review has an article on thin film solar vendor Xunlight's approach - making cells on flexible steel sheets - Roll-Up Solar Panels.Xunlight, a startup in Toledo, Ohio, has developed a way to make large, flexible solar panels. It has developed a roll-to-roll manufacturing technique that forms thin-film amorphous silicon solar... [read more]