Solar Cells Info

by Ann Braybrooks, September 24, 2007
Source: Chronogram.com
http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2007/10/Community+Notebook/Solar-Attraction

Renewable energy. The arts. Combine the two to create a unique arts and business complex powered by sunlight, an existing waterfall, and possibly even recycled vegetable oil from local restaurants. Do this by rehabilitating and redeveloping a sprawling former box-board mill that straddles a section of the Stonycreek Kill, about a mile from the village of Chatham.

Add all kinds of cool things: artist studios; workshop space for ecofriendly woodworking, metalsmithing, and tilemaking businesses; and a huge green building center, where prefab homes with integrated energy-efficient systems can be manufactured. Maybe even construct a carbon-neutral ecovillage on the property adjacent to the mill, and simply move those energy-efficient, prefab dwellings down the road. Encourage residents to leave their cars in a lot off the main thoroughfare and use electric vehicles, or, better yet, their legs and feet, to get to their front doors. Some residents might even be able to walk from work to home if they hold one of the “green-collar” jobs at the Solaqua complex, or if they work at the restaurant or performance space envisaged for the property. (more…)

Los Angeles, CA, October 1, 2007
Source: Empire Solar press release/ PRweb.com
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/10/prweb557350.htm

On the heels of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Million Solar Roofs Plan being signed and the public embrace of Al Gore’s Oscar winning film “An Inconvenient Truth” and Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary “The 11th Hour”, Empire Solar Solutions, an affiliated partner company of the nation’s leading Home Improvements provider Empire Today, brings environmental and economic benefits of solar energy to greater Los Angeles area. Approximately $3 billion are available in rebates and incentives for California residents to covert to solar power – and reduce utility bills in the process. Installation of just 100,000 solar roofs in Los Angeles would cut global warming pollution by 300,000 tons per year, and reduce smog forming pollution by 90,000 pounds per year.
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Prism Solar Technologies (PST) signs product development contract with the New York State Energy R&D authority
Long Beach, California, September 25, 2007
Source: Prism Solar Technologies Inc, press release
http://www.prismsolar.com/news.html

Prism Solar Technologies, Inc. (PST) has signed a $548,000.00 product development contract with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to build and sell bifacial photovoltaic (PV) modules that incorporate PST’s proprietary holographic planar concentrator (HPC) technology.
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By David Ehrlich, cleantech.com, September 25, 2007 – Exclusive
http://media.cleantech.com/1825/suntech-takes-the-cake-at-solar-power-2007

Suntech gets manufacturing deals from Lumeta and Akeena, and introduces two new product lines.  The Solar Power 2007 conference in Long Beach, Calif., has only just begun, but China’s Suntech Power (NYSE: STP) is shining bright as an early winner.  The world’s third largest solar cell manufacturer in terms of production output, and the leader in China, racked up four announcements this week, taking on two new customers and releasing two new product lines at the conference.
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New Delhi, Sept 18, 2007
Source: Economic Times
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Energy/Power/2382728.cms

Leading German renewable energy firms have shown interest to manufacture solar cells and air-conditioners in India, taking advantage of abundant solar energy in the country.  Prozop-Solar and Q-Cells have recently held talks with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, sharing their plans to set up manufacturing facilities in India. (more…)

by Steve Bush, 20 September 2007
Source: Electronics Weekly.com
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2007/09/20/42228/

Durham University has made significant improvements in thin-film solar cells. “We have done a lot of work measuring recombination at grain boundaries and on the control and increase of grain size,” principal investigator Professor Ken Durose told EW.  Durose and his team are working on thin-film cells, three years into the Government’s sustainable power ‘Supergen’ project. (more…)

XINYU CITY, China and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 29, 2007
Source: LDK Solar Co. Ltd press release
http://www.ldksolar.com/Company%20news.html

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK), a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, announced today that it has signed a contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to Taiwan-based Neo Solar Power Corp. (NSP).
Under terms of the agreement, LDK Solar will deliver multicrystalline solar wafers to NSP valued at approximately US$495 million through the end of 2009. (more…)

Xinyu City, China and Sunnyvale, CA, September 24, 2007
Source: LDK Solar Co. Ltd, press release
http://www.ldksolar.com/Company%20news.html

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE:LDK), a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, announced today that it has signed contracts to supply multicrystalline solar wafers and to purchase polysilicon production equipment from Sunways AG. Under the terms of the wafer supply contract, LDK Solar will deliver approximately 1 GW of multicrystalline solar wafers to Sunways over a ten-year period starting in 2008. Under the terms of the equipment purchase agreement, LDK Solar will purchase two readily available Siemens technology-based reactors and related plant equipment from Sunways. In addition, Sunways AG will provide support services to LDK Solar during the facility construction and the ramp up of polysilicon production. (more…)

Xinyu City, China and Sunnyvale, CA, September 27, 2007
Source: LDK Solar Co. Ltd /press release
http://www.ldksolar.com/Press%20Release1.html

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK), a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, announced today that it has signed a five-year contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to Taiwan-based Mosel Vitelic, Inc.
Under the terms of the agreement, pricing and quantity is fixed for the first three years. During this period, LDK Solar will deliver multicrystalline solar wafers to Mosel Vitelic valued at approximately US$190 million with delivery commencing in 2008.
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WUXI, China and LONG BEACH, Calif., Sept. 25, 2007
Source: PR Newswire /CNN Money
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/CNTU02125092007-1.htm
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. , one of the world’s leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced the introduction and availability of the STPVb-1 and STPUb-1 range of high output solar modules targeting grid connected applications in North America. These products will be on display from September 25 to September 27 at the Solar Power 2007 Conference and Expo being held in Long Beach, CA and are available for sale for delivery in 2008.
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