Solar Cells Info

Auburn Hills, Michigan, September 17, 2007:
Source: PRNewswire/CNNMoney.com
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/CLM11017092007-1.htm

United Solar Ovonic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. , showcased its lightweight, flexible thin-film UNI-SOLAR(R) laminates during this year’s 59th Annual Primetime Emmy(R) Awards telecast which aired live on Fox Television, Sunday, September 16, 2007.
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Nuying Huang, Taipei; Esther Lam, DIGITIMES, 17 September 2007
Source: DigiTimes
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20070913PD217.html

As a leading amorphous silicon (a-Si) solar cell equipment supplier, Oerlikon emphasized that it guarantees its equipment provides a minimum power conversion rate of 7%, and the company projected that further enhancement will be seen in the near future along with the introduction of a new equipment set, said company Asia head Hai-Yan Sun.
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Chennai, Sep 18 2007
Source: LiveMint.com/Wall Street Journal

Moser Baer Ltd, a leading manufacturer of compact discs, will set up a Rs2,000 crore photo-voltaic manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu to tap solar energy as India battles an energy shortage. The company expects to earn $1 billion (Rs 4,050 crore) after five years through this facility, which will make cells that help convert solar energy into electricity, and will be the first for the New Delhi-based firm. The investment will be made through its unit Moser Baer Photo Voltaic Ltd and funded through internal accruals.

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By Mike Snyder, Houston Chronicle
Source: Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5130602.html

BP America is donating $1 million and a solar-powered buggy to help Discovery Green, the $80 million park scheduled to open next year in downtown Houston, achieve energy efficiency. The energy company’s gift, to be formally announced today, will pay for two solar panels that will be mounted on the park’s administrative office building and a restaurant, said Guy Hagstette, the park’s director. These panels and other non-polluting energy sources will provide at least 35 percent of the park’s electricity, Hagstette said.
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The company did not rule out the possibility of manufacturing solar cells in India if there was huge demand and policy initiative from the government
New Delhi, Sep 11 2007
Source: LiveMint.com /Wall Street Journal
http://www.livemint.com/2007/09/11165351/Sharp-launches-solar-business.html

Japanese firm Sharp on 11 September announced the launch of its solar business in India with an aim to take over 20% of the Rs600 crore domestic market by 2010.  “We hope to achieve Rs100 crore turnover in next three years from our solar business in India but the company’s internal targets are much higher,” Sharp Business Systems India Managing Director Sunil K Sinha told reporters here. (more…)

September 4, 2007
Source: CleanTech.com
http://media.cleantech.com/1695/trina-testing-new-multicrystalline-mod

The China-based maker of PV products said the new modules have a total power output of up to 220 watts.  Changzhou, China-based Trina Solar (NYSE: TSL) said late last week that it has started test production of multicrystalline solar modules that can produce 180 watts to 220 watts of electricity.  Trina, which makes solar photovoltaic products, said on Friday that the modules each contain 60 156-millimeter square cells. Shares of Trina rose $2.25, or 4.8 percent, to $49.07 in afternoon trading. (more…)

Truebbach (Switzerland), September 3, 2007
Source: Oerlikon Solar / press release
http://www.oerlikon.com/ecomaXL/index.php?site=SOLAR_EN_press_releases_detail&udtx_id=4663

Oerlikon Solar, a leading global supplier of field-proven turnkey solutions for thin-film silicon solar modules, introduced today its micromorph tandem technology highlighting its continued global strength in the growing solar industry. The environmentally friendly, energy-conscience micromorph tandem modules offer customers many advantages including the potential to achieve efficiencies of 10 percent and higher in the near future.  Oerlikon Solar’s micromorph module technology, first invented by Dr. Johannes Meier, head of the company’s R&D activities, combines two different silicon materials – amorph and microcrystalline – in a top and a bottom cell. In this way, the amorphous top cell is converting the visible part of the suns spectrum while the microcrystalline bottom cell is absorbing the sun power in the near infrared spectrum. Consequently, the new micromorph tandem technology allows boosting the efficiency level by approximately 50 percent compared to traditional amorphous single cells. (more…)

Christoph Hammerschmidt, EE Times Europe
Munich, Germany, Sept 9, 2007
Source: EETimes.com
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201803664

With a new integrated production line for large-area solar panels, Applied Materials claims it can reduce the costs of photovoltaic system installations by more than 20 percent. The SolarFab Thin Film Line production system is presented at the European Photovoltaic Solar Conference presently held in Milan, Italy.  The SolarFab production system processes ultra-large glass substrates with dimensions of 2.2 by 2.6 meter. The resulting area of 5.72 square meters is four times the size of today’s largest thin film solar production panels, driving down costs and improving productivity, the company says. It can be configured with single or tandem junction technology. In one year, the system can produce an amount of solar modules that generate 75 megawatts of electrical power.
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Milestone facility among world?s largest; will provide electricity for about 5,000 households
Kyoto, Japan – September 12, 2007
Source: Kyocera Solar / press release
http://www.kyocerasolar.com/news/news_detail.cfm?key=430

Kyocera Corporation (President: Makoto Kawamura) today announced its role as the sole supplier of photovoltaic (“PV”) modules for a super-large-scale solar electric generating system in Salamanca, Spain, that will meet the needs of about 5,000 private households. The facility, known as Planta Solar de Salamanca, incorporates about 70,000 Kyocera PV modules in three separate arrays on a 36-hectare (89-acre) site. Its peak rated output of 13.8 megawatts makes it the largest PV system ever created using Kyocera PV modules exclusively, and one of the largest PV systems in the world.
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Wuxi, China, Sept. 12, 2007
Source: PR Newswire
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/CNW01212092007-1.htm

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. , one of the world’s leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced that it has supplied 230 MSK Photovol Glass panels to Socovoltaic Systems, a Socotherm and TSNergy Inc. joint venture company that designs, manufactures and installs integrated PV systems. The 10kW building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) solution will form an integral component of a 750kW solar system for a 25,000 square meter green building project in the Sicilian city of Pozzallo, Italy.
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