Solar Cells Info

Press release from Sunways AG, 30 June 2008
http://www.sunways.de/en/press/pm_overview.php?we_objectID=2106

Sunways AG, Constance, will supply SOLARWATT AG, Dresden, with solar cells from 2009 onwards. The prepayment contract has a five-year term and relates to a total volume of 155 to 160 megawatts of mono- and multicrystalline solar cells. The quarterly delivery volumes to SOLARWATT will gradually increase each year in line with the expected expansion of Sunways AG’s production capacities. Initially, SOLARWATT will receive a maximum of 20 megawatts of solar cells next year, including an option for five megawatts; in 2013, the delivery volume will be 50 megawatts. The prepayment amount will not be disclosed. (more…)

Hiroaki Kitahara (technical writer), Jun 24, 2008
Source: Tech-On
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080624/153787/

Kansai Electric Power Co Inc, Sakai City and Sharp Corp announced that they will jointly promote the Mega Solar Power Generation Plan with the aim of constructing 10MW-class solar power generation facilities on the waterfront in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. (more…)

National’s SolarMagic Technology Enables Today’s Solar Technology to Extract Significantly More Energy in Variable Light Conditions; Customer Field Trials Begin
June 30, 2008
Source: National Semiconductor Corp. press release
http://www.national.com/news/item/0,1735,1344,00.html

Building on its leadership in power management and energy-efficient products, National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM) today announced that it has entered the photovoltaic market with new technology designed to increase the overall energy output of solar electric power generating systems. National’s SolarMagic™ technology extracts the maximum power efficiency of each photovoltaic panel, even when some panels in the array are compromised by shading, debris or inherent panel-to-panel mismatch.
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By Kim Yoo-chul, Staff Reporter
TAEAN, South Chungcheong Province, Korea, 6 July 2008

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…)

American Capital Energy to Install Solar Photo Voltaic System at ACL’s 240,000 Sq. Ft. Elizabeth, NJ, Facility
Elizabeth, NJ, and North Chelmsford, MA, June 24, 2008
Source: MarketWire
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=872204

Atlantic Central Logistics, (ACL) a leading asset-based logistics company, today announced that a 700-kilowatt (kW) DC solar photovoltaic (PV) system will be installed by North Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based American Capital Energy on the roof of ACL’s Elizabeth, NJ, headquarters.  Established in 1980, Atlantic Central Logistics has become a leading provider of supply chain management, distribution, warehousing, driver leasing, and local cartage to the freight forwarder within the transportation industry. Atlantic Central operates in nine cities throughout the US. (more…)

by Busines Standard Reporter / Chennai/ Hyderabad June 19, 2008
Source: Business Standard
http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=lmnu1&subLeft=1&autono=326450

Solar Semiconductor (SS), a Hyderabad-based manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) modules, on Wednesday entered into a strategic partnership with TUV Rheinland India Limited for certifying safety and quality of the former’s products, systems and services. Disclosing this here, SS vice-president Ravi Surapaneni said the PV industry was changing rapidly in terms of the technology and materials used and a certification would ensure that quality was not compromised. TUV Rheinland would inspect SS’ plant at the Fab City annually to check manufacturing processes and quality of solar panels and related products. (more…)

by BV Mahalakshmi, Hyderabad, June 24, 2008
Source: The Financial Express
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Ramky-group-all-set-for-Rs-1-000-cr-solar-foray/326716/

The Rs 1,700-crore Ramky group, a multi-disciplinary company focussing on construction, infrastructure development, waste management, design-build-own-operate projects, real estate, infrastructure consultancy, finance and investment, is all set to venture into manufacturing of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells. Having a market cap of $3 billion, the company would be investing about Rs 1,000 crore for the proposed solar cell plant, to come up at the Fab City, Hyderabad.  Interestinlgy, the Fab City has attracted over 16 solar manufacturing Companies, located on over 1,200 acres, and will soon be adding three more Companies in the next few months. The investment by these three new Companies is expected to generate about $2 billion. (more…)

San Francisco, CA and Wuxi, China, June 24, 2008
Source: Suntech Power Holdings Inc, press release /PRNewswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-24-2008/0004837584

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), one of the world’s leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, and WACKER SCHOTT Solar GmbH (“WACKER SCHOTT”), a joint venture of Wacker Chemie AG and SCHOTT Solar GmbH, today announced they have signed a long term silicon wafer supply agreement. Under the terms of the supply agreement, WACKER SCHOTT will supply Suntech specified annual volumes of silicon wafers with a total volume of approximately 220MW over the course of the contract. (more…)

Osaka, June 23, 2008
Source: Japan’s Corporate News Network
http://www.japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=18763

Sakai City, Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (Kansai Electric), and Sharp Corporation today agreed to cooperate on the Sakai City Waterfront Mega Solar Power Generation Plan in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.  Under the plan, mega solar power generation is scheduled for the following two locations:
(1) Sakai No. 7-3 District Solar Power Generation Plant (tentative name), Output: Approx. 10 MW (10,000 kW)
(2) Sakai Manufacturing Complex Solar Power Generation Facilities (tentative name), Output: Approx. 9 MW (9,000 kW) to start, with maximum of 18 MW (18,000 kW). (more…)

Source: Deutsche Welle-World.de / 22 June 2008
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3430319,00.html

A solar power plant described by its operators as the biggest in the world began generating electricity at the site of a former East German air base on Sunday, June 22, 2008. The Waldpolenz Solar Park is built on a surface area equivalent to 200 soccer fields, the solar park will be capable of feeding 40 megawatts into the power grid when fully operational in 2009.  In the start-up phase, the 130-million-euro ($201 million) plant it will have a capacity of 24 megawatts, according to the Juwi group, which operates the installation. (more…)