Does history repeat itself? The investors and executives behind NovaSolar really hope not. The company says it has developed a process for producing amorphous silicon solar modules and building ...

Hayward-based OptiSolar has sold its remaining assets for $260 million to a Canadian company, completing a spectacular rise and fall for a once-bright star of the solar energy sector. With the deal, ...

Frozen capital markets are putting the chill on a fast-growing California solar company, a sign that the economic downturn is being felt even in the state’s thriving renewable-energy sector.

Last year, I wrote a story about NovaSolar, a somewhat strange reincarnation of a company called OptiSolar that was arguably the biggest debacle in solar until Solyndra came along. NovaSolar's ...

An Arizona solar company said Monday that it had acquired a pipeline of planned large solar projects from OptiSolar, a Hayward solar panel manufacturer that had planned to build utility-scale projects ...

OptiSolar Inc., which only last fall had the trappings of a solar energy powerhouse, disclosed on Friday that it has laid off nearly 300 workers in Hayward and Sacramento because the frozen capital ...

Stunted by the nation’s credit freeze, troubled OptiSolar Inc. of Hayward, Calif., has agreed to sell its portfolio of unfinished solar farms to one of the hottest firms in the solar industry. First ...

Hit hard by the financial crisis, Hayward's OptiSolar agreed on Monday to sell its entire portfolio of planned but unbuilt solar power plants to an Arizona rival for $400 million in stock. First Solar ...

HAYWARD, CA-Earlier this year the locally-based solar start-up halted the build-out of the Sacramento manufacturing plant and sold its project pipeline for $400 million. Optisolar has tapped a team of ...

OptiSolar Inc., which grabbed headlines last year with plans to build a massive solar power plant in California's Central Valley, has stopped its manufacturing operations and will lay off most of its ...

One year ago, a little-known solar power company emerged from the woodwork with a plan to build a photovoltaic manufacturing plant at McClellan Park. Thrilled by the potential of 500 or even 1,000 new ...