GLG News by Polysilicon Trend Experts (North America)

In assessing a CPV or CST technology you need to consider both the target applications and the completeness of their design concept for that application - does the team have the expertise to make it work? 

Concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) are not quiet ready for primetime on commercial rooftops. (a) Commercial roof tops are highly dependent on financing via power purchase agreements (PPA). (b) Concentrating photovoltaics are an unproven technology in terms of performance, reliability, price and O&M...

There is an interesting dichotomy in how most Americans, both the public and the leadership, address alternative energy.  We mouth the rhetoric of "there's no one answer" to replacing present energy conversion and then are as petulant as a child who got underwear instead of a bicycle for Christmas,...

Despite a horrendous housing market, solar powered installations on homes, especially new ones, are becoming a measurable market niche.  This trend is being noted in mainstream homebuilder publications like housingzone.com, which has until now treated solar as something way into the future. ...

In the Paul Newman movie "The Private War of Harry Frigg", an opening scene has a bunch of generals in a steam room arguing over a map where the enemy is.  After a few minutes, the enemy shows up at the door and takes the toweled lot away.  So is the argument over what's worse, climate change...

Just when you think it's over, and the US solar and wind industries will have to scramble to finish 2008 installations and sweat out 2009 inactivity, Congress has passed fairly close versions of solar and wind power incentives that promise to be at least an adequate patch over to next year, and possibly...

Zero-landfilling is a goal that is now reality. GM is one of the leading major manufacturing companies demonstrating that corporate plants can lower disposal costs by 100% recycling and reuse of their wastes. By performing this task, GM lowers their carbon footprint.  

Since the 1970s, corporations are required to meet environmental regulations in air, water, solid and hazardous wastes etc. Over the years, many companies eventually developed strategic plans to implement pollution prevention, that is reduce wastes at the beginning of the manufacturing...

With the skyrocketing cost for developing new processes more and more semiconductor companies are joining the IBM alliance the pre competitive process is getting less and less. NEC is just the last one from a parade of the companies that already joined the alliance. Looks like we are having only...

Despite trepidations over the lapsing of US federal incentives, the domestic photovoltaic market continues to consolidate to take advantage of better economy of scale.  Photovoltaic installations in the US now number over 10,000 a year, growth that will continue to increase once new federal incentives...