US solar cell plant
In the thick of Oregon’s “silicon forest” and far from his home in Germany, SolarWorld founder Frank Asbeck walked through his company’s newest plant Friday with the excitement of a child in a toy factory.
Solar Texile
Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy.
Sharp and Enel
Japan’s Sharp Corp is to join forces with Italy’s Enel SpA on solar power generation, aiming for output capacity of more than 160 megawatts by the end of 2011, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.
