| Saudi Aramco Chooses Soitec’s CPV Solar Technology June 17, 2013...The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), has decided to use Soitec’s
concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology for a 1-megawatt solar-energy pilot plant in Saudi Arabia’s northwestern Tabuk region. Saudi Aramco is an oil and chemical company that is owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The announcement came
from Partners Khaled Juffali Company (KJC), a Saudi Arabian investment company,
and Soitec, a... First Solar Granted 50MW Power Purchase Agreement for Proposed Solar PlantJune 10, 2013...First Solar, Inc. has been granted a power purchase agreement (PPA) from the
New Mexico Public Regulatory Commission. The PPA allows First Solar to begin
construction on New Mexico's Largest solar plant. The CdTe thin film solar power plant will be located on State Trust Land in Luna County. The Paso Electric
Company agreed to purchase the entire output power from the... Emcore Awarded Solar Manufacturing Contract by ATK for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion MissionMay 29, 2013...Emcore Corporation of albuquerque, New Mexico USA, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by ATK to design and manufacture solar panels for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) planned for launch in 2015. Emcore's most advanced ZTJ triple-junction solar cells will power a satellite that will carry the GPIM payload. ATK will integrate Emcore's solar panels... Amonix Achieves Record for PV Module Efficiency in NREL TestApril 29, 2013...Amonix Inc., a designer and manufacturer of concentrator photovoltaic (CPV)
solar power systems based in Seal Beach, California USA, reported that it has
successfully converted 36.2 percent of direct sunlight into electricity. In
testing from February to April of this year a III-V multi-junction solar module
from Amonix demonstrated a peak operating efficiency of 36.2% measured on March
14, 2013 with a DNI of 876... Solar Junction and IQE to Develop Satellite III-V CellsApril 22, 2013...Solar Junction, based in San Jose, California, a developer of multi-junction
concentrator photovoltaic cells is reportedly contract negotiations with IQE.
IQE is a supplier of semiconductor wafers for next-generation satellite solar
cells for the European Space Agency. Back in October of 2012, Solar Junction
achieved 44 percent efficiency at 942 suns employing the company’s
Adjustable Spectrum Lattice Matched (A-SLAM) architecture. A-SLAM provides
material bandgap tuneability to... Spectrolab Multi-junction Solar Cell Achieves 37.8 Percent Efficiency Without Solar ConcentrationApril 22, 2013...Spectrolab of Sylmar, California, reports that its solar cell recently set a
world record by converting more energy from the sun into electricity than any
other ground-based solar cell without solar concentration. The Boeing
subsidiary achieved in 37.8 percent efficiency with its new class of
ground-based multi-junction solar cells. The measurement was verified by the
U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden,
Colorado.... First Solar Acquires Company, TetraSun and 60 MW AC North Star ProjectApril 15, 2013...Tempe, Arizona-based First Solar announced that it has acquired the 60
megawattAC (MW) North Star solar project that NorthLight has developed in
Fresno County, California. NorthLight is a joint venture of Renewable Energy
Corporation ASA and Summit Power Group, LLC. Terms of the transaction were not
disclosed.
First Solar, Inc. also signed a definitive agreement to acquire TetraSun, a
photovoltaic (PV) technology startup which developed 21... First Solar Acquires 150 MW Photovoltaic Power ProjectApril 8, 2013...First Solar, Inc. of Tempe, Arizona USA, has acquired the 150-megawattAC
(MW) Solar Gen 2 power project from an affiliate of The Goldman Sachs Group,
Inc., Energy Power Partners, and a third equity partner for the project.
Construction of the facility, which will be located in Imperial County,
California, near El Centro, is expected to start this year and be completed in
2014. Financial terms...
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... Air Liquide of Paris, France, has signed an agreement to acquire Voltaix Inc., a U.S.-based electronics materials company. The acquisition is expected to close later this summer, pending applicable regulatory approvals. Air Liquide, with its ALOHA™ product line, supplies precursors for semiconductor manufacturing. Precursors are molecules with specific physical and chemical properties that are used in depositing layers during... 
