The solar system's firstprivatespace station is under construction by a space technologycompany run byUShotel industry entrepreneur Robert T. Bigelow, according tomediareports.
Applied Materials (nasdaq: AMAT - news - people ), are working to improve another thin-film technology that is extremely cheap but so inefficient it can't yet match FirstSolar in cost per kwh.
Critically, FirstSolar executive vice-president T K Kallenbach insists the company will not have to share its cutting-edge PV technology with domestic competitors, as many Western renewables players seeking to enter the vast Chinese market have been forced to do .