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Evergreen Solar To Close Devens manufacturing facility

Evergreen Solar, Inc., a manufacturer of String Ribbon® solar power products with its proprietary, low-cost silicon wafer technology, have announced its intent to shut down operations at its Devens manufacturing facility to better position the Company to pursue its industry standard size wafer strategy and preserve the Company's liquidity.

SoloPower's new solar panel manufacturing facility in Oregon

SoloPower, Inc., a California-based manufacturer of flexible, thin film solar cells and modules, announces it will locate a high volume manufacturing facility in Wilsonville, Oregon.

Oak Park plans a future with electric cars

Hoping to encourage residents and visitors to take the lead in moving the country toward what many believe will be the future of automobile propulsion, the Village of Oak Park soon will offer free parking and vehicle stickers for electric vehicles.

Potential for lead-free piezoelectric ceramics

Scientists are using Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility, to discover how we can detoxify our electronic gadgets.

Largest operating PV facility in the world completed

Enbridge Inc. and First Solar, Inc. have achieved commercial operation of the 80-megawatt (MW) Sarnia Solar Project, making it the largest operating photovoltaic facility in the world.

TSMC begins building solar R&D center and fab in central Taiwan

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company enters into the thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) market.

H.C. Starck sells Clevios to Heraeus

H.C. Starck GmbH, headquartered in Goslar, Germany, has signed a contract to sell its global Conductive Polymers Business Unit to Heraeus, Hanau, Germany.

Wind harvesting to power parking garages

HOK Architects has demonstrated that even parking garages can be environmentally progressive.

Real Time Locating and Wireless Sensor Networks - Rapid Advances

In the past, too much use of RFID has involved sensing items and conveyances only when they pass very near to the occasional interrogator. Heroic assumptions are then made about what happened in between. Was it destroyed, perhaps by overheating? Is it still there? Is it intact?

Specialty glass, ceramics company to enter thin-film market

Capital expenditure of around $180 million has been approved by Corning's board of directors to expand the company's Harrodsburg, Ky., manufacturing facility. The expansion will provide additional capacity for Corning's Gorilla glass business and entry into the growing thin-film photovoltaic glass market.

DuPont opens North American photovoltaic research facility

Applications lab fosters innovation to accelerate R&D to meet fast growing solar market

Toyota to invest in Tesla to develop electric vehicles

Japanese motor giant Toyota is preparing to join forces with US car manufacturer, Tesla Motors to develop and manufacture electric vehicles and components.

Government funding for OLED lighting

A pilot facility to manufacture white OLED panels will be built as part of a two year program to demonstrate up to a four times improvement in energy efficiency for white OLED lighting that will meet commercial lighting targets.

Automated pilot manufacturing facility for dye sensitised solar cells

Dyesol Limited and Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing Pte Ltd have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaboratively design, develop and build an automated pilot manufacturing facility for Dye Sensitised Solar Cell otherwise known as DSSC or DSC products.

Nissan to build LEAF electric vehicle in Sunderland

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., has announced the Nissan LEAF will be manufactured at its plant in Sunderland, UK.

DuPont opens photovoltaic application facility in Geneva

To address the needs for the fast-growing photovoltaic market, DuPont opened the Meyrin Photovoltaic Application Laboratory at its European Technical Center - adding new capabilities to this leading R&D hub by developing next-generation products.

Bayer MaterialScience opens world's largest carbon nanotube facility

Bayer MaterialScience has opened a new pilot facility for the manufacture of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) at CHEMPARK Leverkusen. The company has invested some EUR 22 million in the planning, development and construction of the facility, which is the largest of its kind in the world and has an annual capacity of 200 metric tons.

Konarka and Arch Aluminum & Glass announce new pilot project

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Konarka Power Plastic®, a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company, along with Arch Aluminum & Glass Co., Inc, has launched the first curtain wall pilot project that will integrate Konarka Power Plastic into a wall structure at Arch's office building in Tamarac, Florida.

Energy Harvesting & Storage and RTLS & WSN conference summary

The first day of the conference (attended by more than 290 attendees) was focused on presentations from end users of energy harvesting and wireless sensor networks technologies, with the first presentation given by IDTechEx CEO Raghu Das, giving an overview of needs for energy harvesting as well as the three generations of technologies (active RFID, RTLS and mesh & WSN) that have evolved into the current market for Wireless Sensor Networks, a market due to reach US$1.75 Billion by 2019.