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 ...

SoloPower Chief Executive Rob Campbell hopes to forestall the planned shutdown of its Portland plant, shown here in September. ( Benjamin Brink/The Oregonian) In its latest bid to survive, solar panel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SoloPower CEO Rob Campbell on Tuesday said he’s hopeful his company will only have to suspend operations in Portland, and not close it entirely, as it continues searching for new investors. “What ...

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 ...

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 ...

SoloPower, a San Jose, California-based manufacturer of high efficiency, lightweight and flexible thin-film solar cells and modules, announced today that General Wesley K. Clark (USA, Retired), former ...

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 ...

Retired general and former Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Wesley K. Clark has joined SoloPower’s board of directors. San Jose, Calif.-based SoloPower — a developer of thin-film solar energy ...

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 ...