One foot on a banana peel, the other in the grave. That’s where Fisker Automotive and SoloPower find themselves, struggling for survival despite generous government handouts in the form of loan ...

(Reuters) – A tiny solar company named SoloPower will flip the switch on production at a U.S. factory Thursday, a major step toward allowing it to tap a $197 million government loan guarantee awarded ...

Rich Read has the details on the latest on SoloPower as participants in the world's largest solar trade show crowded around a SoloPower booth in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, to see and touch a new kind ...

The federal government is making another big bet on solar panel manufacturing with taxpayer money, hoping the third time will be the charm. SoloPower held its grand opening Thursday in Portland, Ore., ...

It was only last fall when SoloPower began manufacturing at its new solar panel factory in Oregon and aimed to eventually make use of a federal loan guarantee to expand production. Now the company is ...

SoloPower, a maker of flexible thin-film solar power panels, has raised $13.5 million in its fifth round of funding from Crosslink Capital and others, according to a recent filing with the Securities ...

Silicon Valley-based company claims industry-first UL certification for solar modules made from thin-film CIGS material which are making their way to market from multiple suppliers. Martin LaMonica is ...

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SoloPower's thin-film photovoltaic solar panels at its Portland grand opening in 2012. (Benjamin Brink/The Oregonian/2012) Chalk up another month in the red for SoloPower Systems, the idled thin-film ...

The Department of Energy has granted a $197 million loan guarantee to SoloPower for the building of a thin-film solar panel manufacturing facility in Wilsonville, Ore. This marks a big win for ...

The company decided to scale back operations in April this year and take steps to reduce operating costs. It was also announced then that looking for strategic investors was the next step. With the ...

Silicon Valley-based solar company SoloPower is poised to draw a loan from the Department of Energy to expand its factory, a situation that’s drawing parallels to now-infamous Solyndra. SoloPower ...