May 14, 2004: "Plant that Hyper-Accumulates Cadmium Discovered." The Fujita Corp of Japan, in cooperation with the National Institute for Rural Engineering and Professor Chisato Takenaka at Nagoya University, has found that a perennial plant called Hakusan-hatazao in Japanese (Arabis gemmifera) can absorb and accumulate high levels of cadmium (Cd) from the soil.
May 4, 2004: "Waste Directives and Their Impact to the EU PV Industry" (PDF 28 KB) (Download Acrobat Reader). The European Directives 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and 2002/95/EC on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (ROHS) have to be implemented by the Member States in 2004 and will have a significant impact on the PV industry...
December 1, 2003: "DOE Labs Battle Problems with Disposal, Perception of Cadmium in Solar Modules," Inside Energy (PDF 76 KB) (Download Acrobat Reader). Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory are working with a leading solar energy company to dispose of waste from its operations—and to counter arguments that some systems to produce energy from sunlight are environmentally unfriendly...
February 16, 2003: "First Solar Renews Its Push for Viability," Toledo Blade. Sixteen years and millions in government research dollars after announcement of a plan that backers said could make Toledo a center for production of low-cost solar energy panels, a major new push is under way to bring the problem-plagued project to reality...
January 2003: "BP Solar Ditches Thin-Film Photovoltaics," IEEE Spectrum. One of the world's largest producers of photovoltaic solar cells, BP Solar abruptly announced plans to cease production at plants making thin-film cells from amorphous silicon and cadmium telluride...
November 21, 2002: BP Solar announced that it will cease production of thin-film PV cells made from amorphous silicon and cadmium telluride...
September 5, 2002: "CdTe Module Manufacturer Antec Solar has Filed for Bankruptcy." The PV magazine PHOTON International reports in its September issue that CdTe module manufacturer Antec Solar has filed for bankruptcy...
December 4, 2001: "Federal Grant Set to Expand Solar Cell Research," The University of Toledo News (PDF 282 KB) (Download Acrobat Reader). The University of Toledo is in line for $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Program to provide a major expansion for UT's photovoltaic energy initiative...
November 16, 2001: "Solar Approach Powers Xantrex," Puget Sound Business Journal. Solar energy technology has come a long way from the idyllic 1970s, when ecology-minded citizens made solar ovens in their back yards out of reinforced cardboard and aluminum foil...
June 27, 2001: "First Solar: Production Line PVs," EcoWorld. In our continuing search for the company that will provide breakthrough price reductions in photovoltaic cells, EcoWorld has discovered First Solar based in Toledo...
April 25, 2001: "Solar Cells Suck It Up," Environment New Service. A longstanding efficiency record for electricity produced by solar cells made from cadmium telluride has been broken by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)...
April 11, 2001: "NREL CdTe Team Fabricates 16.4% CdS/CdTe Device." The NREL CdTe team has developed a modified CdTe device structure and fabricated a CdS/CdTe polycrystalline thin-film solar cell demonstrating an NREL-confirmed total-area efficiency of 16.4%...
March 2001: "New Solar Technologies Emerge to Meet Electricity Demand," Energy Resource Industry News. A longstanding efficiency record for electricity produced by solar cells made from cadmium telluride has been broken by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)....
September 14, 2000: "Global Solar Energy Market May Grow Ten-Fold by 2010," Environmental Expert.com News. The global market for solar electric technology will grow to U.S. $10 billion by the end of this decade, according to a market analysis...
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