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SoloPower is a solar energy company developing and manufacturing Copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) Thin-film flexible Photo-voltaic Solar Panels. The company uses a special electroplating technology to utilize nearly 100% of its materials.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our Difference - SoloPower® )〕 SoloPower is based in San Jose, California, and has achieved the distinction of being the first company to obtain UL Certification of CIGS flexible solar panels in 2010. This was lauded as a significant achievement by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Later the same year, the company also received IEC Certification (IEC 61646 and 61730) of its flexible CIGS solar panels, again an industry first.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SoloPower earns pair of IEC certifications for flexible CIGS thin-film PV module )〕 In March 2012, the company's modules set a world record aperture efficiency of 13.4% for flexible CIGS Solar Panels, as measured by NREL.〔() 〕 ==Company history== SoloPower was founded by Bulent Basol and Homayoun Talieh in 2005.〔() 〕 The company started its pilot manufacturing line in December of the same year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Corporate - SoloPower® )〕 In 2010, SoloPower held talks with the town of Wilsonville, Oregon to set up a manufacturing plant there. In 2011, the United States Department of Energy approved a $197 Million Loan Guarantee to the company, enabling a 400MW manufacturing plant in Oregon. In May 2011, SoloPower decided to move the manufacturing facility to Portland instead.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SoloPower to announce plans for $340 million North Portland solar panel plant )〕 In April, 2013, SoloPower announced plans to suspend operations at the Portland plant and gut the remaining workforce.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SoloPower moves to power down Portland factory, gut remaining workforce )〕 SoloPower was announced a winner of the 2012 TiE50 award in the category of Clean Energy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SoloPower Receives TiE50 Award in Energy and Cleantech )〕〔() 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SoloPower」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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