Solar Cells Info

Source: SolarWorld AG press release /May 24, 2007
http://www.solarworld.de/Corporate-News.78.0.html?&L=1

SolarWorld AG is vigorously expanding its business with the international solar cell and module industry. The Deutsche Solar AG subsidiary has entered into new long-term agreements with a number of globally operating cell and module manufacturers for the supply with solar silicon wafers from the Freiberg production. The order volume of these new contracts runs up to a total of 1.5 billion EUR for the SolarWorld Group. The time span of the orders covers the period until 2018. 51 per cent of the orders originate
from Europe. Asia follows with a rate 37 per cent. China and Taiwan alone account for 16 per cent of all new supply contracts. 12 per cent of the wafers ordered will be shipped to North America. The entire order backlog of Deutsche Solar AG for external customers from existing orders and new contracts amounts to 4.0 billion EUR.
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Moser Baer of India aims to get 40% of its revenue from producing sun panels by 2010.
By Amy Yee, Financial Times, May 28, 2007
Source: Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-ft-solar28may28,1,4386266.story?

NEW DELHI — Moser Baer India transforms tons of tiny plastic particles into 3 billion blank compact discs and digital video discs each year in a factory in a Delhi suburb, claiming a 20% share of the global CD market.  But with higher costs for raw materials and digital downloads raising questions about the future of discs, the company has found a new outlet for its expertise in stamping and coating: solar panel production.
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Canadian Solar Signs a 45 Million Euro Annual Sales Contract and Breaks Ground of a 250 MW Module Facility in Changshu, China

Jiangsu, China, May 29 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/
Source: Canadian Solar Inc. press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=196781&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1007679

Canadian Solar Inc. (“the Company”, or “CSI”) (Nasdaq: CSIQ) today announced it has concluded a 2007 annual sales contract worth 45 million Euro with a leading German customer. CSI has already started to deliver to this contract in March, before official signing, due to immediate demand for the products.
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Nuying Huang, Taipei; Esther Lam,
Source: DIGITIMES,  29 May 2007
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20070529PD210.html

Ever Energy, an affiliate established by Taiwan-based electricity system supplier Ever Power, is preparing for equipment move-in in 2008, targeting to house an annual capacity of 90 peak megawatt (MWp) in the first year.  According to sources that have contacts with Ever Energy, this new solar cell maker has purchased equipment from the Germany-based Centrotherm. The company will also land turn-key know-how from the equipment supplier. Three turn-key production lines are currently planned, the sources detailed.
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Saint Louis, MO–May 29, 2007
Source: Solar Night Industries / press release
http://www.solarnightstore.com/s.nl/it.I/id.126/.f

Solar Night Industries (OTC: SLND.PK) offers builders their Solar SynapseTM Pre-Wire Kit for Renewable Energy in New Home Construction. The design behind the Solar SynapseTM Pre-Wire Kit is to cost-effectively provide Builders a renewable energy option for a new home at a reduction of the cost of the addition of a new, post-construction PV solar energy system. This allows future homeowners the opportunity to easily, and affordably add a solar modern energy system at their leisure. The Solar Synapse Pre-Wire Kit includes all the necessary internal components needed for a Builder to pre-wire the home while under construction, saving incremental parts and labor costs–versus a retrofit system–of over $4,000.
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Vancouver, B.C., May 24, 2007
Source: Xantrex.com /press release
http://www.xantrex.com/web/did/1690/readnews.asp

Xantrex Technology Inc. (TSX:XTX) today announced that its inverters have been successfully installed and connected to the electrical grid by German system integrator juwi solar GmbH, for a 6 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic (PV) solar installation in Oberschütz, Germany, northeast of Leipzig.
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Andrew Johnson, The Arizona Republic /May. 27, 2007
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/0527biz-solar0528.html

Thin-film photovoltaic copper indium gallium diselenide is not a phrase that rolls off the tongue.  It could find its way into the daily lexicon, though, if a Tucson firm has its way.  Global Solar Energy Inc. is using the technology to build solar panels that can power everything from an iPod to a soldier’s tactical gear.
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Huntington Beach, California / 28 May 2007
Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=48692

Designed to augment the power supplied to each home from the grid, 89 single-family and estate homes in a new community north of Naples, Florida, will receive solar energy systems from Sharp.

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Huntington Beach, CA /April 29, 3007
Source: Sharp Solar Energy Solutions, press release
http://solar.sharpusa.com/solar/press_releases/0,2484,7-2,00.html

Sharp takes to the road to educate the public about the “What,” “Where,” and “Why” of solar power

Sharp’s Solar Energy Solutions Group, the U.S. solar arm of Sharp Corporation, the world leader in solar cell production, has launched a unique awareness campaign that will demystify solar electricity for consumers. Components of the campaign will appear in newspaper ads, internet search results, and web page banners – even a colorful traveling education trailer that will move from town to town throughout California. “Hello Sunshine” will be the tag line, and a lesson about solar electricity, not a sales pitch for Sharp products, will be the message.
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Electron Solar Energy Launches Multi-Lingual Website to Serve Growing International Customer Base
Miami, FL, May 15, 2007
Source: Businesswire.com
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070515005453&newsLang=en

Electron Solar Energy (Pink Sheets: ESRG), an international distributor of alternative energy systems, announced today that with a simple click from the Company’s home page, http://www.electronsolarenergy.com, its entire site can be translated from English to French. Over the next several weeks, Electron Solar Energy plans to add several of the world’s major languages to create a multi-lingual marketing and sales channel, with online order capacity.
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