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SunPower to Announce Second-Quarter Results on July 31, 2013 (SacBee)
SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR) will announce its second-quarter financial results on a conference call Wednesday, July 31 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. The call-in number is 517-623-4618, passcode SunPower. The call will be webcast and can be accessed from SunPower’s website at http://investors.sunpowercorp.com/events.cfm. …SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR) designs, manufactures and delivers the highest efficiency, highest reliability solar panels and systems available today. Residential, business, government and utility customers rely on the company’s quarter century of experience and guaranteed performance to provide maximum return on investment throughout the life of the solar system.

Cheapest Solar Panels No Longer Best, SunPower CEO Says (Bloomberg)
Chinese solar manufacturers that are still trying to sell the cheapest panels have failed to adapt to an industry seeking more efficient products, said SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR) Chief Executive Officer Tom Werner. Panel prices have plunged, and now make up less than half the cost of a system, he said in an interview yesterday at Bloomberg’s offices in New York. Customers are no longer seeking the cheapest solar panels, they want the cheapest solar energy. “Most solar companies compete on price,” Werner said. SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR), the second-largest U.S. solar manufacturer, has “transitioned to selling energy.”

SunPower Solar Panels Complete Atlas Testing Program (SolarIndustryMag)
SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR) says its E20/327 solar panel underwent the Atlas 25+ PV durability testing program and received certification by SGS. The company says its panel showed less than 2% power degradation over the course of the testing regimen. The Atlas 25+ testing protocol includes long-term environmental exposure that requires modules to have less than 8% degradation over the testing period in order to receive SGS certification. Atlas says the program exposes solar panels to a series of stresses, including UV-A/UV-B exposure, salt spray corrosion, condensing humidity, solar/thermal humidity cycle, solar/thermal humidity freeze cycle, Arizona and Florida solar tracking -including peak summer -and initial, final and multiple interval measurements.