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Solar industry analysis
 A solar toast: Nothing succeeds like success
Before the industry celebrates a banner year, industry stakeholders should take a moment to consider what out-of-control growth, high levels of inventory, and severely constrained margins might bring in the mid-term, writes Paula Mints, Navigant Consulting.
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Chinese solar power plants for less than 1Yuan/kWh?
A recent round of bids for utility-scale solar plants in China broke the 1 Yuan per kWh ($0.15 per kWh) threshold, highlighting the government's push for clean energy at all costs. Lou Schwartz, China Strategies, discusses costs and the role of renewable power in China's plans. (Article from RenewableEnergyWorld.com)
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What thin-film PV has in common with Mark Twain
Rumors of thin-film PV technology's demise are exaggerated, writes Paula Mints from Navigant Consulting -- despite an uphill competitive battle with crystalline silicon, it does have a place in the future of multi-GW deployments.
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Photovoltaic technology characterization review reflects utilities' interest
The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) released its PV Technology Characterization Review. The review provides an analysis of technical metrics across the commercialized PV materials, including manufacturing processes, efficiency and performance, market applications, and environmental characteristics.
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Focus on inverters
 PV inverter outlook: Small is king, for now
Researchers from iSuppli and IMS break down the market for PV inverters: what technologies and applications are hottest, what's still holding back supplies, and where the future growth is.
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Solar microinverter enables AC modules, higher efficiency
Enphase Energy will unveil its next-generation microinverter at Solar Power International 2010. The microinverters boast a CEC efficiency of 96% and direct integration with solar panels to reduce BOS load. This article includes a podcast interview with Raghu Belur about the 4 challenges traditional BOS set ups face, and the microinverter solution.
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Picking winners and losers in solar modules and inverters
Jason Eckstein from Lux Research ranks makers of silicon and thin-film modules and inverters in several areas of competitiveness, and analyzes who comes out on top and why.
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Around the globe
CPV boot camps will promote power plant development using concentrator solar
The CPV Consortium will hold "CPV Boot Camp" Workshops to help solar project developers, utilities and financiers to accurately evaluate concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems for medium- and large-scale projects deployed in solar-rich regions.
Solar engineering, manufacturing group accepting technical presentations for first conference
Industry professionals are invited to submit technical presentations for the Solar Engineering & Manufacturing Association (SEMA) Technical Conference, in the Bay Area, February 2011.
centrotherm SiTec sells ingot furnaces in China
centrotherm SiTec GmbH, subsidiary of centrotherm photovoltaics AG, signed an agreement for the shipment of several multi-crystalline ingot furnaces to the major Chinese state company Shaanxi Tianhong Silicon Industrial Corporation Co. Ltd.
IFC, India's Gujarat state to jointly develop solar power project
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is working on a public-private partnership deal with the Indian state of Gujarat to design and structure a distributed rooftop solar power project in the state capital of Gandhinagar.
Technology news
Dye-sensitized solar cells get boost from laser welding
A group at Yonsei University has determined that laser welding of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) interfaces improves the cells' efficiency by up to 65%, making cell efficiency hit 11.2%.
Coherent, Holst Centre cooperate on research for smart-foil integration
Coherent and Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by IMEC (Belgium) and TNO (Netherlands), have announced their cooperation in the field of flexible electronics.
Solar cell contact pastes optimized for new silicon cell architectures
Ferro Electronic Materials introduced a series of silver and silver/aluminum contact pastes for new high-efficiency silicon cell designs such as n-type, bi-facial, and interdigitated back-contact solar cells.
Solar back rail adhesive certified to IEC 61646
H.B. Fuller developed material and process PV-RH275 back rail adhesive for solar module manufacturing. PV-RH275 passed IEC 61646 environmental/mechanical testing and is one-part, requiring no mixing or purging.