Solar Cells Info

San Francisco, CA and Wuxi, China, Aug 27, 2008
Source: Suntech Power Holdings, press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=192654&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1191174

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), one of the world’s leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced it has signed new supply agreements with GCL Silicon Technology Holdings Inc (“GCL Silicon”). Under the terms of the supply agreements, GCL Silicon will supply Suntech with 9,420 MT of polysilicon and 1.1 GW of silicon wafers from 2008 to 2012. (more…)

TORONTO, Sept. 3, 2008
Source: Canadian Solar Inc, press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=196781&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1193056

Canadian Solar Inc. (“the Company”, “CSI” or “we”) and GCL Silicon Technology Holdings Inc. (“GCL Silicon”) today reported that on August 21, 2008 they signed new long-term supply agreements in which GCL will supply 510 MT of high-purity poly-silicon feedstock in 2008 and 2009 and approximately 1.8 GW of wafers to CSI from 2010 to 2015. (more…)

Company Continues to Innovate with Advanced Commercial and Utility Grade PV Solutions
Boston, MA, Sept. 03, 2008
source: Satcon press release
http://investor.satcon.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=331804

Satcon (NASDAQ CM: SATC), a leading provider of utility scale distributed power solutions for the renewable energy market, announced today that they are taking orders for their PowerGate™Plus 1 megawatt (MW) commercial PV inverter system, designed with advanced features for large scale utility installations.  “It is exciting to see the industry move toward larger scale projects,” said Tobin Booth, Chief Executive Officer of Blue Oak Energy. “The demand for utility grade installations is increasing at a rapid pace and systems of this size and scale require higher levels of efficiency and overall performance. With the addition of the 1 megawatt PowerGate Plus unit, Satcon continues to deliver the next generation of solutions for these large projects.” (more…)

by John Walko, EE Times Europe
London, Sept. 1, 2008
Source: EETimes.com
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210201642

European research organization IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) has teamed with Plextronics, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA.), a specialist in printed solar, lighting and other organic electronics, to develop a reproducible process for organic solar cells using Plextronics’ materials and inks.  These materials have demonstrated world-record efficiencies as high as 5.9 percent, according to recent testing at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado. (more…)

Posted by Elsa Wenzel, July 24, 2008
Source: GreenTech/CNet.com
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9998606-54.html

First Solar is teaming up with Sempra Generation to build in the Nevada desert what could become North America’s largest thin-film photovoltaic plant. The 10-megawatt project would be located 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas, next to Sempra’s natural gas plant in El Dorado. “As a result, the impact to the immediate environment is minimal and the project completion timeline will be shorter,” Mike Ahearn, CEO of First Solar, said in a statement. (more…)

New Solution Answers the Call for Solar Power for Flat Roof Home and Commercial Buildings
SAN FRANCISCO, CA., July 2, 2008
Source: Akeena Solar press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=201840&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1171457

Akeena Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:AKNS), one of the United States’ leading designers and installers of solar power systems, today launched its Andalay Flat Roof Solar Power System. Homeowners and businesses now have a sleek, reliable and high-performing solar solution to answer the marketplace demand for flat roof solar power systems.  In urban areas like San Francisco, solar hasn’t been a real option for customers who live in buildings with flat rooftops. When we debuted our innovative Andalay technology eight months ago, it was the first radical change in solar panel design in three decades. Now we are taking that high performance, highly reliable technology one step further and enabling everyone to benefit from solar, regardless of where they live, said Gary Mull, vice president at Akeena Solar. Electricity prices are skyrocketing, and it’s time that every homeowner has access to clean, cheap, renewable energy from the sun. (more…)

Nation’s Leading Solar Installer Answers the Call in Rapidly Growing Market
LOS GATOS, CA., Aug. 5, 2008
Source: Akeena Solar Inc, press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=201840&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1183725

Responding to consumer demand and a booming residential solar market in New England, Akeena Solar (Nasdaq:AKNS), one of the United States’ leading solar installers, today announced it will expand its operations into Connecticut. The new location at 435 Boston Post Road, Milford, Conn., is the tenth office opened by Akeena Solar.  The company has already completed more than 40 installations in Connecticut, and due to the recent passage of new rebates in Connecticut and rising electricity costs, the demand for Akeena Solar’s award-winning beautifully designed, high performance Andalay panels is rapidly growing. (more…)

Teams With Pleasanton to Bring Popular Community-Based Solar Adoption Program
LOS GATOS, CA., Aug. 1, 2008
Source: Akeena Solar Inc press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=201840&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1182635

After a successful eight week community program, Akeena Solar (Nasdaq:AKNS), one of the United States’ leading solar installers and a preferred solar Installer for Livermore, today announced nearly 30 new homeowners have signed up to go solar. Together, the systems will generate 117 kW of solar electricity and will offset about 280,753 pounds of carbon dioxide a year — the equivalent of removing 23 cars off the road each year for 30 years. (more…)

Fourteen banks are participating in the financing of four new solar projects.
Madid, August 7, 2008
Source: Abengoa Solar press release
http://www.abengoasolar.es/sites/solar/en/noticia12.jsp

Abengoa Solar has completed the financing of the new Solnova 4 Concentrating Solar Power plant and three new photovoltaic plants worth more than €210 million and €70 million respectively. The institutions involved in the financing are Banesto, Caja Madrid, Calyon, Dexia Sabadell, ING, Kfw, Ladesbank, Natixis, Santander, Société Générale and Ubibanca for the construction and start-up of Solnova 4, and La Caixa, Sumitomo and West LB for the photovoltaic plants. (more…)

Bedford, MA, June 25, 2008
source: Spire Corp. press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=76421&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1169320

Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic cells and modules worldwide, today announced that it has delivered advanced solar module production equipment to ET Solar Group, located in the People’s Republic of China.  The module manufacturing equipment delivered to ET Solar includes Spire’s most current process technology. With this equipment, the line will be capable of annually producing up to 15 megawatts of solar modules. (more…)