Solar Cells Info

Thin -film Solar Leader Expands Market Opportunity with Highly-efficient CIGS Material Expanding the Product Integration Possibilities for PV Power Worldwide
Washington, DC, March 4, 2008
Source: Globar Solar Energy press release/Business Wire
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?
newsId=20080304005398

Global Solar Energy, a solar industry leader that manufactures CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide) thin-film solar cells on a foil substrate introduces its PowerFlex ™ material. On display at this week’s Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) in Washington D.C., attendees can view the lightweight, conformable material that is being integrated into products to combine power and building material functionality, greatly expanding the potential of solar applications and Global Solar’s market opportunity. (more…)

Global Solar Energy Opens Landmark Manufacturing Plant, Sets Full-scale Production Capacity Records – 40 MW Solar Plant is the Largest of its Kind in the World, 35 MW Factory to Open in Berlin, Germany; Groundbreaking Underway for 750 kW U.S. Solar Field
Tucson, AZ,  March 06, 2008
Source: Global Solar Energy press release/BusinessWire
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20080306005135

Global Solar Energy, a solar industry leader that manufactures highly-efficient thin-film solar cells for glass modules or flexible material products, today announced the official opening of its new, breakthrough manufacturing plant. The plant’s phase one, full-production capacity of 40 megawatts (MW) in annual U.S. production sets new industry records for CIGS production capacity and enables Global Solar to meet heavy demands for solar adoption worldwide. Global Solar is simultaneously breaking ground on what will be one of the world’s largest CIGS solar fields, at 750 kilowatts (kW), and commissioning its 35 MW plant in Berlin, Germany to open in fall 2008. (more…)

Company enters competitive solar product market with state-of-the-art racking system
San Luis Obispo, CA / February 19, 2008
Source: http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/
story;jsessionid=69D042913559A7F3F39857737351EDE5?id=51608

REC Solar, a rapidly growing solar installer with national presence, announced the launch of its innovative commercial and residential racking system. SolaRak was created by a team of veteran solar engineers working with installers in the field. The technology is an innovative advancement and simplifies the solar installation process while also decreasing the cost associated with traditional racking solutions. REC Solar first rolled out SolaRak’s innovative technology to its large scale commercial clients in California and Hawaii and is now making the same technology available to residential customers.
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Deventer, The Netherlands /Feb 13, 2008
Source: BusinessWire / Yahoo biz.com
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080213/20080213005794.html?.v=1

GiraSolar, Inc., an internationally operating, broad based solar energy company with a network of subsidiaries and affiliated entities in the field of solar energy product development, production, application and sales on four continents, today announces that it has made the first of several deliveries on a USD 10.3 million supply contract to a solar project developer in Spain.
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Deventer, The Netherlands /March 7, 2008
Source: Business Wire/Yahoo biz.com
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080307/20080307005581.html?.v=1

GiraSolar, Inc, an internationally operating American-Dutch solar energy company, today announced that its subsidiary GiraSolar Turkey Ltd. exhibits at the first Turkish national solar energy technologies fair and exhibition.
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Largest Provider of Solar Electric Systems in the U.S. in 2007 Ready to Meet Solar Needs of Oregon Businesses
San Luis Obispo, Ca, March 06, 2008
http://www.businesswire.com/

REC Solar, a rapidly growing provider of residential and commercial solar electric systems, today announced it is opening sales offices in Portland, Oregon. The San Luis Obispo, California-based company said it would focus on selling commercial solar electric installations to businesses throughout the state.
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Source: Azooptics.com /March 5, 2008
http://azooptics.com/Details.asp?newsID=2028

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. today announced that its German solar partner, Asola Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems GmbH, has been awarded a contract by AS Solar GmbH for the supply of high-efficiency silicon photovoltaic solar modules. The value of this contract is estimated at $135 million over a three year period, beginning in 2008, and subject to final negotiations on quantity and price in 2009 and 2010.
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by Andy Vuong, February 28, 2008
Source: DenverPost
http://blogs.denverpost.com/vuong/2008/02/28/ascent-solar-partners-with-japans-itochu/

Ascent Solar, a budding solar energy firm in Colorado, announced a new partnership this morning with ITOCHU Corp. of Japan. The partnership could help Ascent distribute its solar panels in Japan and other parts of the world.  Ascent makes flexible solar panels or modules that can be used in building materials. It has a deal with a Norwegian company that will use Ascent’s technology in curtains.
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Peccell Develops Large-Area High-Voltage Solar Cell Modules; To Start Sample Shipments of Thin Flexible Solar Cells in 2009
Yokohama, Japan, Feb 26, 2008
Source: Peccell Technologies press release/  JCN Newswire
http://japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=17102
Peccell Technologies, Inc. has developed a technology to produce large-area high-voltage film-type dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) modules with a high-speed, low-cost printing process. Peccell, based in Yokohama City and led by Prof. Tsutomu Miyasaka, Toin University of Yokohama, has been developing next-generation thin flexible DSCs jointly with Fujimori Kogyo Co., Ltd. and Showa Denko K.K.
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Sharp Reaches 2 GW of Cumulative Solar Cell Production Volume; Result of More Than 40 Years of Trusted Experience Since Starting Mass-Production in 1963
Osaka, Japan, Feb 27, 2008
Source: Sharp Corp. press release / JCN Newswire
http://japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=17126

At the end of 2007, Sharp Corporation became the first company to reach 2 GW in cumulative solar cell production volume in the world. Sharp has been involved with solar power for 49 years: the company began research into solar cells in 1959 to develop a new technology to follow the success of the television and started mass-production in 1963. It is estimated that the current world’s cumulative solar cell production volume is 8 GW, meaning Sharp has produced a full one-quarter of this.
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