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Yingli Solar announced that it has successfully commercialized its TwinMAX 60 Cell high-efficiency dual glass module (including the standard series and the bifacial series) and TwinMAX 72 Cell high-efficiency dual glass module (standard series).
Emirates Insolaire sees strong growth potential in energy-efficiency on skyscrapers
Sustainable design concepts manifest themselves through the minimal use of artificial lighting, recycling of water, and using energy-efficient concepts in buildings, right from luminaries to the building materials.
Onyx Solar® will participate in the most important convention in the field of architecture and design in the US, which will be held from May 19 to May 21 in Philadelphia.
Heliatek has won the GreenTec Award in the "Production" category. The Dresden- and Ulm-based technology company won the award for its innovative, vacuum roll-to-roll pro­duction process used to manufacture HeliaFilm®, an organic solar…
ATTOCH™ glass was first adopted for use in Japan for the tasting room at Kirin Yokohama Beer Village, Yokohama City.
In April 2016 the Russian Ministry of Industry held a meeting on the issue of the adjustment of import duties on glass for the production of solar cells.
This is the first time Veteco Solar will be held in the framework of Veteco.
SolarWindow Technologies, Inc. , released today ‘behind the scenes’ video of its collaborative research and development taking place at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
VETECO will host the 1st Iberian Solar Protection and Control Congress, which will be organised by the trade fair, Asefave and Protección Solar magazine.
The four trade fairs will bring together more than 1,200 companies and 60,000 professionals from the sectors of engineering, industry, automation, construction, architecture, infrastructure, town planning, and the tertiary sector, in one of the main…
Collaboration sets stage to commercializing transparent electricity-generating coatings, turning buildings into “power generators”
World's first from Dresden: SOLARWATT GmbH is now also offering the SOLARWATT 60M high power module with an output of 300 watt peak (Wp). The German solar pioneer is now the first company to produce a glass-glass model in this variant and with…
Heliatek R&D teams reached a record conversion efficiency of 13.2% for an OPV multi-junction cell, setting a new world record for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity using organic photovoltaic cells.
Solar-Tectic LLC ("ST") announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed a patent for hybrid organic/inorganic thin-film growth on inexpensive substrates, such as flexible and ordinary soda-lime glass.
The German equipment supplier Bürkle has received an order for 2 Multi-Opening Lamination Lines Ypsator® 2022-6 SL from EMMVEE Photovoltaic Power India.
It is only recently that 70 TPedge photovoltaic modules have adorned the external façade of Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) laboratory in Freiburg (Germany).
At the Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards ceremony in London, Heliatek received the Renewable Energy Design Award 2015.  The German start-up, based in Dresden and Ulm, develops and produces HeliaFilm®, an organic solar film.
The new Hikari building – ‘hikari’ meaning ‘light’ in Japanese – was designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.  The first positive-energy mixed-use city block in Europe, delivers exemplary environmental performance since it generates slightly more…
New materials and processes are coming into the lamination technology segment of PV production. With these come challenges for technology providers, but they also present major opportunities for increased throughput and reductions in energy…
Onyx Solar´s photovoltaic glass will transform Tanjong Pagar building so it is capable of producing its own energy from the Sun.
ING DIRECT, the largest online bank in the world, is one more of the multiple multinational companies like Novartis, Pfizer, or Coca-Cola that have included one of Onyx Solar´s innovative solutions    The renovation done in their central offices in…
The Indian government has the intention of taking the country to the forefront of renewable energies.
High costs, a lack of integration possibilities and interest on the part of architects – solar modules for building skin integration are still niche products.