Solar Cells Info

Innovative Chargers, Metering Services, Carbon Credits and Sunsei.com Revamping Facilitate an Integrated Solar Lifestyle
Montreal, Canada, June 12, 2008
Source ICP Solar Technologies Inc, press release
http://www.icpsolar.com/4105/news_details.asp?news_id=51

ICP Solar Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: ICPR, FRANKFURT: K1U.F), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of solar panels and products, today announced that ICP Solar senior management, led by CEO and Chairman Sass Peress, will introduce the Company’s new line of Sunsei® Solar products, services and website at Intersolar 2008, the world’s largest solar technology trade fair being held in Munich, Germany June 12th through the 14th. (more…)

Ghent, Belgium, 12 June 2008
Source: SunPower Corp. press release
http://www.presseportal.de/pm/71669/1209181/enfinity

Enfinity, a global developer of renewable energy projects, today announced that it has entered into framework agreement with SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWR), a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and solar systems, to provide turn-key engineering, procurement and construction services for solar electric power plant projects totaling more than 25 megawatts. The installations contemplated under this agreement will be built as from 2008 till 2009 by SunPower in Italy and are contingent on Enfinity to secure financing and construction permits for the projects.  Sunpower and Enfinity are in discussion to expand their collaboration to include additional solar projects in Spain, Greece and other countries worldwide. (more…)

Peter Clarke, EE Times Europe, London, June 11, 2008

Source: EETimes.com

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208403309

G24 Innovations Ltd., a startup company that is producing dye-sensitized thin-film solar cells, an alternative to traditional silicon solar cells, has received a $20 million investment from Morgan Stanley Principal Investments Inc. (MSPI). (more…)

by Motonobu Kawai, Nikkei Microdevices, May 19, 2008
Source: TechOn
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080519/151942/

Sanyo Electric Co Ltd established the “Advanced Photovoltaics Development Center” to promote its development of thin film Si solar cells April 1, 2008.  Fusing its photovoltaic technologies with technologies in different areas, Sanyo aims to develop an innovative thin-film Si solar cell. Nikkei Microdevices interviewed Makoto Tanaka, who became president of the center, about the company’s strategy for technology development (interviewer: Motonobu Kawai). (more…)

by Motonobu Kawai, Nikkei Microdevices, June 5, 2008
Source: TechOn
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080605/152883/

Sharp Corp will release its “ND-191AV” polycrystalline Si solar cell module, which has a high module conversion efficiency of 14.4%, targeting Japanese houses. The number of bus bar electrodes was increased from two to three, and the widths of all the electrodes were reduced.  With the improvement in conversion efficiency, the module can be installed in a wider range of positions on roofs. Compared with the company’s existing products, the capacity of the roof module is 1.5 times larger on average. (more…)

Cyberjaya, June 2, 2008
Source: Bernama.com
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=336814

Germany’s Q-Cells AG, the world’s leading photo-voltaic company and largest manufacturer of solar cells, will invest RM5 billion in Malaysia to produce solar cells for the global market, its chief executive officer Anton Milner said Monday.  The investment, he said, comprised three phases of development, starting with the setting up of a manufacturing complex on a 150-hectare site in Selangor Science Park II in Bukit Raja, Dengkil, near here.   “We have three phases of development here. What we have foreseen up to now is an investment budget of RM5 billion and we hope to employ 800 to 900 people in the first phase,” he told reporters after a ground-breaking ceremony at the site. (more…)

June 2, 2008
Source: StreetInsider.com
http://www.streetinsider.com/Insiders+Blog/3705929.html

First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) stock is down about 6%, or about $15, to $252.23 today. Traders are selling the popular stock today amid a Bloomberg report detailing insider selling and possible concerns in the company’s largest market, Europe. Michael Ahearn, First Solar’s CEO and second-largest shareholder, has cut his holdings in half since its IPO at the end of 2006: from about 6.1 million shares to 3.07 million shares as of May 16. The CEO’s remaining stake still represents about 3.85% of outstanding shares. Investors view insider trades as a great way to gauge managements conviction in itself; an executive buying usually signals great confidence in his or her company, while a sell can often be viewed as a time to take profits.
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• Supply of about 40 MWp thin-film modules by contractual agreement
• ersol Thin Film to deliver “Nova®-T” type modules between 2008 and 2010
Erfurt, 3 June 2008
Soruce: Ersol Thin Film, press releaes
http://www.ersol.de/en/newsmediarelations/pressreleases/pressrelease/
news/1212330668/?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=35&cHash=d28a11f472

ersol Thin Film GmbH (ersol Thin Film), a subsidiary of ersol Solar Energy AG, today signed a contract with Ralos Vertriebs GmbH (Ralos) for the supply of about 40 MWp thin-film modules. Amorphous thin-film modules are to be supplied to the German solar distributor over a period of three years from 2008.
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by Moumita Bakshi Chatterjee, New Delhi, June 3, 2008
Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/06/04/stories/2008060452420100.htm

At a time when crude prices are peaking, a reduction in solar power costs could brighten the energy scenario. The solar photovoltaic (PV) business, which incurs a generation cost of Rs 12-14 per unit, is looking at reducing it to Rs 4-6 a unit in the next three to five years.  The reduction would mainly be on the back of anticipated easing of global demand-supply imbalance of silicon, advances in thin-film PV, higher cell efficiency and other innovations. (more…)