For some time now, we’ve seen American solar panel manufacturers struggle to keep costs low enough to compete with their Chinese and Japanese counterparts. Last year, Massachusetts-based Evergreen Solar (NASDAQ: ESLR) had to move solar panel assembly to China (though retaining its manufacturing facility not far from Boston) in order to cut back on costs [...]

Massachusetts-based Evergreen Solar (NASDAQ: ESLR) believes the solar wafers it manufactures at its Fort Devens facility–and the solar panels built around the wafers–are on par with many traditionally cheaper solar panels manufactured in China. Why? Evergreen’s unique “string ribbon” manufacturing process for crystalline silicon solar wafers cuts way down on raw materials, process, and waste [...]

Evergreen Solar shares fall further this week, now at $1.42 compared to a high this time last year of $5.20.

Massachusetts-based solar cell manufacturer Evergreen Solar, bellwether of the Bay State’s push for clean energy, announced on Wednesday its plans to move solar panel assembly to China. The statement, appearing in the company’s filing of earnings for the third quarter of 2009, arrives less than a year after Evergreen opened the doors to its much-lauded [...]

Evergreen Solar, the solar panel manufacturer lured to Massachusetts by a generous incentive package from Governor Deval Patrick, may be facing fiscal trouble and downsizing, the Boston Globe reports. The plant was built in a repurposed old Army base at Fort Devens two summers ago. While its welcome to the neighborhood could have been warmer, [...]