China solar

DuPont, the leading U.S. chemical maker, and Yingli Green Energy Holding Co., a top Chinese PV panel manufacturer, reached a $100 million deal this week with the goal of boosting supplies of solar-energy materials and promoting broader adoption of solar energy worldwide.

Based out of Arizona, First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), the world's largest solar company, has made three announcements this week demonstrating the company's dominance and growing reach in the global solar market.

Canadian Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: CSIQ) is one of the world's leading and largest providers of solar modules. Headquartered in Kitchner, Ontario since its inception in 2001, the company has swelled its operations into eight countries.

China, with a fast-prospering population of 1.3 billion and one of the world's most active industrial machines, is increasingly turning to clean energy to meet its ever-expanding power needs—its energy consumption has doubled since 2000.

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company, Ltd. (NYSE: YGE), one of the world's largest photovoltaic solar cell manufacturers, has announced it will increase its production capacity by four times as a result of intensified dem

Government initiatives are making strides to alter China's fossil fuel dependence with a series of desert projects and new solar goals. In the Gobi Desert, six large-scale projects are being built and in Beijing, the new 2011 solar capacity target was raised to 2GW.