Solar Cells Info

by Mike Cooke, 31 December 2007
Source: SemiconductorToday.com
http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/NEWS_2007/DEC_07/NANOSOLAR_311207.htm

Copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) photovoltaic technology is making its first steps from investor promise to physical products. Furthermore, Nanosolar of San Jose, CA, USA has won a contract to supply panels for a solar power plant located on a former landfill site owned by one of the largest waste management companies in east Germany.
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By Matt Nauman, MediaNews Staff
San Jose, CA, 7 Jan 2008
Source: InsideBayArea.com
http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_7902104

Caterers unfurled red tablecloths. A drum kit sat in the corner waiting for the band to arrive.  It’s time for a party at Nanosolar in San Jose’s blossoming Edenvale Technology Park. And why not; the company has lots to celebrate.  After five years, more than $100 million, and the financial blessings of some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley (the founders of Google, eBay and others), Nanosolar is finally selling something.
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By Chen Qide, China Daily, Dec 11, 2007
Source: China Daily
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2007-12/11/content_6312458.htm

Nantong in northern Jiangsu Province is set to become one of China’s key thin-film amorphous silicon solar cell manufacturing bases after Nantong Qiangsheng Photovoltaic Technology Co Ltd (QS Solar) announced it had launched a $400 million project.  A senior company manager said yesterday that the project, China’s largest of its kind, will be carried out in three phases within three years. The first phase, which consists of three sets of 25 MW production facilities, will see the first set put into operation by mid-January of 2008, Sha Xiaolin, chairman of QS Solar, said.
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Rodney Chan, Taipei, 12 December 2007
Source: DigiTimes
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20071212VL202.html

The partnership with equipment supplier Oerlikon is expected to shorten the time thin-film solar cell maker Sunwell Technology will need to begin mass production and to raise yields, according to Robert Wong, chairman of CMC Magnetics, the parent company of the Taiwan-based solar cell maker.  Wong noted that Oerlikon, which supplies Sunwell’s production equipment, has already had experience in mass production for solar cells.  A ceremony was held on December 10 to mark the completion of Sunwell’s solar cell plant in Linkou, northern Taiwan. Sunwell will supply solar cells as well as building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV).
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By Richard Dobson /Additional reporting by Baker Li
Taipei, Dec 6, 2007
Source: Reuters UK
http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKTP33777420071206

Soaring oil prices approaching $100 a barrel are fueling a sleek new kind of solar technology that could some day set skyscrapers and high-rise apartment windows quietly buzzing with renewable energy production.  The emerging technology uses thin films mounted on the glass windows of skyscrapers and other surfaces to harness the sun’s power.  It’s more aesthetic and cheaper than the bulkier conventional solar cells made from polycrystalline silicon whose supplies have tightened and prices have risen as solar energy has taken off.
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Hamilton, N.J., Dec. 17, 2007
Source: EPV Solar Inc. press release/Newswire
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2007/17/c3821.html

EPV SOLAR, Inc. (formerly Energy Photovoltaics, Inc.), a thin-film solar module manufacturer and technology
developer headquartered in New Jersey, USA, announced today that it has entered into a long-term solar module supply agreement with unlimited energy GmbH, Berlin, Germany.  Under the terms of the contract, EPV SOLAR will supply
306 megawatts (MW) of amorphous silicon modules to unlimited energy for use in the development and build-out of several solar parks in Europe.  EPV will begin shipments against this contract during the first quarter of 2008. Product will initially ship from EPV’s New Jersey locations and shift to EPV’s Senftenberg, Germany, plant scheduled to come online during the fourth quarter of 2008.
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by Aled Blake, Western Mail, Dec 18 2007
Source: ICWales
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/business-in-wales/business-news/
2007/12/18/super-thin-solar-film-91466-20262567/

A COMPANY which manufactures next-generation solar technology has signed a research and development agreement with Cardiff University.  Cardiff-based G24i has reached a deal with the university’s school of engineering that will allow it to access the facilities. G24i’s Dye Sensitised Thin Film combines innovative material science and nanotechnology to generate renewable power in a process similar to photosynthesis.
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Mobile solar charger firm announces first deal
James Murray, BusinessGreen, 22 Nov 2007
Source: BusinessGreen.com
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2204120/mobile-solar-charger-firm

UK solar cell manufacturer G24 Innovations (G24i) has today announced the first order for its lightweight solar cells designed for recharging mobile phones.  The chargers, which use flexible and lightweight Dye Sensitised Thin Film (DST) solar cells, will be deployed by Kenya-based Master IT Ltd to provide mobile communications to communities without ready access to mains power.
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Nuying Huang, Taipei; Esther Lam
Source:  DIGITIMES, 23 November 2007
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20071123PD209.html

Oerlikon is making further progress in its micromorph tandem technology and expects over half of the orders it receives in 2008 will be for solar cell production equipment supporting the technology, which will offer a power conversion rate of 10%, according to the company.
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Nov 23, 2007
Source: EMSNow.com /source & copyright: CENS
http://www.emsnow.com/npps/story.cfm?id=30321&pg=story

Taiwanese insiders of the photovoltaic industry have recently reported that a leading European supplier of solar-cell manufacturing equipment is studying the feasibility of setting up its Asian research and development center in Taiwan or Singapore.  They say the investment will cost around 60 million Swiss franc (US$55 million at US$1:1.09 CHF) and will be finalized in December at the earliest.
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