Solar Cells Info

Raises Contractual Backlog to Nearly $3 Billion
Marlboro, MA, July 15, 2008
Source: Evergreen Solar press release/BusinessWire
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080715005695&newsLang=en

Evergreen Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESLR), a manufacturer of solar power panels with its proprietary, low-cost String Ribbon™ wafer technology, announced it has signed a new long-term sales contract valued at approximately $1.2 billion with German-based IBC SOLAR AG. This contract extends through 2013 and brings the company’s total contractual backlog to nearly $3 billion with 5 customers.  “We are very pleased to begin this significant long term relationship with IBC SOLAR, the largest PV distributor in the world”, said Richard M. Feldt, Evergreen Solar’s chairman, president and chief executive officer. “This contract represents the single largest contract in the history of our company and is one of the largest contracts ever between a panel manufacturer and a distributor.” (more…)

Source: Solarfun News / 30 June 2008
http://www.solarfun.com.cn/news_word.php?news_id=41

Under an agreement dated June 22, 2008, GCL Silicon Technology will supply Solarfun with virgin polysilicon sufficient to produce approximately 1.2 gigawatts (“GW”) of solar modules in aggregate over eight years. Deliveries begin immediately. This agreement provides further security for the Company’s ability to meet its polysilicon needs and reach its target of 160 to 180 MW of module shipments in 2008. (more…)

Source: Aleo Solar AG press release/ 30 May 2008
http://www.aleo-solar.de/en-presse/aleo-solar-ag-steps-up-presence-in-the-important-italian-m.html

Aleo solar AG today announced that it acquired numerous new customers at Solarexpo in Verona from 15 to 17 May, thus underscoring the growing importance the Italian market has for the company. Back in January, aleo solar AG had established a wholly-owned subsidiary, aleo solar Italia S.r.l., with the aim of expanding its business activities in Italy. The company has further stepped up its presence in the Italian market by opening a new office in Treviso, which will manage business in Italy from 29 May. (more…)

Sourcer: Aleo Solar AG press release/ 10 June 2008
http://www.aleo-solar.de/en-presse/aleo-solar-presents-pure-black-high-performance-modules.html

Aleo solar today announced that it has chosen this year’s Intersolar in Munich to premiere its new pure black product range, featuring the solar modules aleo S_73 and S_77. The new module types will be available exclusively in Germany, and in performance categories ranging from 160 to 190 watts. The modules are characterized by their distinctive visual appeal: in combining a black Tedlar film with a black anodized aluminum frame, aleo solar has managed to create a pure black module that is capable of meeting the highest aesthetic requirements. (more…)

Source: Aleo Solar AG press release / July 15, 2008
http://www.aleo-solar.de/en-presse/aleo-solar-ag-supplies-solar-modules-and-
photovoltaic-systems-worth-more-than-eur-35-million-to-european-coun.html

Aleo solar AG today announced that it continues to expand its market position in Europe. Customers from Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic have ordered solar modules and photovoltaic systems worth more than EUR 35 million for the current year. Together with the contracts previously reported, the current order volume of aleo solar AG for the year 2008 amounts to over EUR 185 million. (more…)

Taean, July 8, 2008
Source: KoreaTimes/TehranTims
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=172653

LG Solar Energy, an affiliate of LG Group, has completed the nation’s biggest solar energy plant here in the western coastal region and started producing electricity. The facility, which is the result of some 110 billion won investment by teaming up with the local government on some 300,000 square meters of land, will have a 14-megawatt total output capacity, which is enough to meet the power needs of 8,000 households around the region, a company spokesman said. (more…)

Jiangsu, China, June 30, 2008
Source: Canadian Solar Inc, press release/PRNewswire
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=196781&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1170437

Canadian Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: CSIQ) today announced it signed a ten-year supply contract with LDK Solar, a leading manufacturer of multi-crystalline and mono- crystalline solar wafers. LDK has been a key supplier to CSI since summer of 2006. This new ten-year supply contract is in addition to the three-year supply contract signed between CSI and LDK in October 2007. LDK expects to begin the ramp up of its in-house polysilicon manufacturing project in the second half of 2008. (more…)

Jiangsu, China, July 7,, 2008
Source: Canadian Solar Inc, press release/PRNewswire
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=196781&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1172170

Canadian Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: CSIQ) today announced it signed five new sales agreements in Italy and the Czech Republic in the past three weeks. The customers covered under these agreements are WSW in the Czech Republic, and Arco Energy, AC Service, Ravano Green Power and Albatec of Italy.  The total volume of shipments for 2008 for the above mentioned new agreements totals 14.9 MW and reflects sales of CSI’s regular module products. The sales will be realized in the second half of 2008 and are in addition to existing shipments to customers in Germany, Spain, USA, Korea and China. (more…)

Baoding, China, June 5, 2008
Source: Yingli Solar press release
http://ir.yinglisolar.com/e/press_detail.php?pkey=40&news_date_year=2008

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) (“Yingli Green Energy” or the “Company”), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated photovoltaic (“PV”) product manufacturers, today announced that it has entered into a sales contract with EN-NEO NEUE ENERGIEN GmbH (“EN-NEO”), one of the leading specialists in PV energy projects worldwide. Under the terms of the agreement, Yingli Green Energy is expected to supply 9.19 MW of PV modules to EN-NEO from October 2008 to December 2008. In addition, EN-NEO has an option to purchase another 9 MW of PV modules from Yingli Green Energy in 2009. The modules to be supplied will be installed in a solar power plant EN-NEO is constructing in Bad Sobernheim, Germany. (more…)

Source: PVTech.org / 04 July 2008
http://www.pv-tech.org/thin_film/article/oerlikon_solar_gains_two_new_thin_film_customers

Oerlikon Solar has secured business from two new thin-film start-ups. Spanish firm Gadir Solar SA has ordered a complete turnkey a-Si thin film production line, capable of producing over 300,000 panels per year and China-based Chint Solar, has ordered Oerlikon’s ‘micromorph’ R&D line and first-phase production equipment. The equipment will be delivered in 2008 with ramps expected in 2009. “By securing both contracts, Oerlikon Solar enlarges its share in important growth markets. This further strengthens our market leading position as provider of proven thin-film silicon PV solutions,” says Jeannine Sargent, CEO Oerlikon Solar. (more…)