CIGS Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:40:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Least Expensive Solar Panels to be Produced by Siva Power https://www.greenoptimistic.com/least-expensive-solar-panels-produced-siva-power-20140703/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/least-expensive-solar-panels-produced-siva-power-20140703/#respond Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:40:12 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48341 Like many solar power startups, Siva Power started with some big dreams, but after the Chinese glut of cheap solar panels, Siva needed to change direction. At first, under the name Solexant, the company was focusing on thin-film photovoltaic solar panels, “printing” nanocraystalline cadmium-telluride on flexible metal foil. Now, as Siva Power, the company believes […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/least-expensive-solar-panels-produced-siva-power-20140703/feed/ 0 48341 Honda Soltec Will Stop Solar Panel Production in Spring 2014 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/honda-soltec-will-stop-solar-panel-production-spring-2014-20131105/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/honda-soltec-will-stop-solar-panel-production-spring-2014-20131105/#respond Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:12:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=43208 Honda Soltec, a subsidiary of Honda Motor Corporation [HMC], has been producing solar panels since 2006, but will be shut down in early 2014. It seems to me that any company that’s producing electric vehicles, in the interest of truly clean transportation, would have a coinciding interest in solar panels. Take, for example, Tesla Motors […]

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