Solar Cells Info

Press Release    Source: Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd.
WUXI, China and OLNEY, Maryland, Feb. 1, 2007
source: Yahoo business newss/ press release
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070201/cnth016.html?.v=13

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP – News), one of the world’s leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, announced that Suntech America, Inc., its wholly-owned subsidiary, will immediately begin marketing and selling building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) solar products produced by its MSK Corporation unit in the North American market. “Suntech is one of the fastest growing players in the traditional solar PV module market and, with our acquisition of MSK last year, we are now positioned to take a leadership role in the emerging market for BIPV products for which MSK commands a first mover advantage,” commented Mr. Zhengrong Shi, Chairman and CEO of Suntech Power. “Through Suntech America, we intend to establish long-term relationships with North American companies that share our vision of developing the BIPV market.”
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source: Suntech Power press release
http://www.suntech-power.com/News/tabid/99/Default.aspx?id=254&Module=653
WUXI, China, Jan. 24, 2007 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), one of the world’s leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to supply an 800KW Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) curtain wall to the Wuxi Airport terminal with the first phase scheduled to be completed in late October 2007. ”This project demonstrates the traction that Suntech’s China-based systems integration business is achieving by upselling state-of-the-art BIPV solar solutions and helping to promote the use of alternative energy sources in China,” said Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Suntech’s Chairman and CEO. ”We look forward to working with the government of Wuxi to build one of China’s most environmentally friendly airports.”
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Design Wins With Major European and US Solar Cell Manufacturers Marks Strategic Vertical Market Success
January 18, 2007
source: yahoo business news
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070118/20070118005759.html?.v=1

LIVERMORE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Adept Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADEP – News), the leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, announced today that they have secured new design wins with four solar panel manufacturing companies in the rapidly expanding international solar power market. During the quarter just ended, Adept delivered over $300,000 in Adept’s vision guided robotics to the Solar industry, bringing the installed base, into this sector, to over 75 systems. Solar joins Disk Drive, Medical Device and Life Sciences and High Speed Packaging as defined strategic vertical markets, all of which require clean room operation combined with fine precision and flexibility
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Silicon Valley Solar Secures Agreement with Award Winning German Photovoltaic Module Manufacturer

GSS (Gebäude-Solarsysteme GmbH) To Produce Sol-XTM Flat-Plate Concentrator Modules at Their Fully Certified Facility in Eastern Germany

January 24, 2007, SANTA CLARA, Calif.
source: Businesswire
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070124005010&newsLang=en

Silicon Valley Solar announced today that they have finalized an agreement with GSS that will accelerate the market introduction of the company’s Sol-X2 internal concentrator solar modules. The contract defines specific product, process and equipment development that will be executed by GSS to ensure that SV Solar’s module design can be seamlessly produced on the GSS manufacturing line.
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Open Energy’s SolarSave® Roofing Membranes Receives UL Approval to Use Three Additional Roofing Membranes – UL Safety approval significantly increases OEC’s addressable market space

January 24, 2007
source: Open Energy Corp. /press release
http://www.openenergycorp.com/news/pressreleases/01242007.php

Solana Beach, CA, Wednesday, January 24, 2007 – Open Energy Corporation (OTC BB: OEGY), a renewable energy company focused on the development and distribution of solar energy solutions, today announced that their SolarSave® Roofing Membranes product has received Underwriter’s Laboratory (UL) approval to incorporate material from Seaman Corporation (Fibertite), Duro-Last and IB Roofing. SolarSave® Roofing Membranes are now approved with a Class A fire rating for roofs from flat to 2:12 slope for all UL listed roofing applications for these membranes.
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JIANGSU, CHINA — January 22, 2007
Source: Marketwire
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=205806

Canadian Solar Inc. (“the Company,” or “CSI”) (NASDAQ: CSIQ) announced that it has signed a manufacturing collaboration agreement with Photowatt Technologies, Inc. (www.photowatt.com). Under the agreement, CSI will manufacture certain solar photovoltaic modules for Photowatt on an OEM basis. The production is expected to commence in mid-2007.
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JIANGSU, CHINA — January 24, 2007
source: Marketwire
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=206890

Canadian Solar Inc. (“the Company” or “CSI”) (NASDAQ: CSIQ) today announces that it has signed a long term supply contract with Deutsche Solar, the wafer manufacturing subsidiary of Solar World Group of Germany. Under the contract, Deutsche Solar will supply to CSI approximately 180 million Euro worth of Solsix-Multi 6″ wafers over a 12 year period. Initial deliveries will start immediately, with full annual quantity deliveries to commence in January of 2009. CSI and Solar World Group have worked together for the past two years, during which time CSI has been providing recycled silicon feedstock for Deutsche Solar to turn into wafer on toll manufacturing basis.
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25 January 2007, Tucson/Berlin, Germany
Source: Adhoc_news_de/DGAP-news
http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/CorporateNews/en/10431734/DGAP-News-Global-Solar-Energy-to-produce-thin-film-solar

Global Solar Energy, Inc., has announced that it is to invest approximately EUR 30 million to set up a production facility for thin-film solar cells in Germany. The facility, which is to be built at the Berlin-Adlershof science and technology park, will have in two steps a production capacity of round about 30 megawatts. Production is scheduled to commence at the Berlin facility in the first half of 2008. The company also announced that capacity at its site in Tucson, Arizona, is to be expanded from its current level of 4 megawatts to 40 megawatts. The Global Solar Energy Group has already sold 80 percent of its planned 2008 production of 40 megawatts. Global Solar Energy’s largest customer in 2008 will be Berlin-based SOLON AG, which has held a strategic stake in the company since April 2006.
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Plextronics Receives $750,000 in Funding to Further Development of Plexcore PV for Organic Solar Cells

Pittsburgh, PA, January 23, 2007
Source: Plextronics Press release
http://www.plextronics.com/press.aspx?view=90

Plextronics, a world leader in developing active layer technology for printed electronic devices, announced it has received $750,000 in funding from the Sustainable Energy Fund (SEF) of Central Eastern Pennsylvania to further development of Plexcore PV technology for organic solar cells.
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jan 27, 2007
source: Physorg
http://www.physorg.com/news88965013.html

Sharp Corporation has successfully developed mass-production technology for stacked triple-junction thin-film solar cells by turning a conventional two-active-layer structure (amorphous silicon plus microcrystalline silicon) into a triple-junction structure with amorphous silicon (two active layers) and microcrystalline silicon (single active layer).

This new architecture boosts cell conversion efficiency from 11% to 13% and module conversion efficiency from 8.6% to 10%. Mass production is slated to begin in May 2007 at Sharp’s Katsuragi Plant in Nara Prefecture.
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