Solar Cells Info

Baoding, China – January 5, 2009
Source. Yingli Solar, press release
http://ir.yinglisolar.com/e/print_content.php?itemid=00098

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) (“Yingli Green Energy” or the “Company”), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated photovoltaic (“PV”) product manufacturers, today announced that it has entered into a sales contract with GOLDBECK Solar GmbH (“GOLDBECK Solar”), a leading German PV system specialist company for PV applications on industrial buildings. Under the terms of the contract, Yingli Green Energy is expected to supply a minimum of 15 MW of PV modules to GOLDBECK Solar in 2009. In addition, the contract provides a framework for GOLDBECK Solar to purchase up to an additional 58 MW of PV modules from Yingli Green Energy in 2009. (more…)

Fort Pierce, FL, June 2, 2008
Source: Photovoltaic Solar Cells Inc, press release/Businesswire

Photovoltaic Solar Cells Inc (Pink Sheets:PVSO) today announces that it has created a dye doped Graphite/Graphene only solar cell. This solar cell will be produced using the production tool that the company is building. This equipment can produce either a solar cell or a solar strip that can be used as a roofing tile. Pictures of these items can be viewed at the company’s web site.

This solar cell is inexpensive, environmentally friendly, reliable and durable. This solar cell can be walked on and it is flexible. The company is working on a way to regenerate the cell after years in service at the site where the cells are in use. This would be a first and would mean that the cells would last forever. Additionally, this would produce add-on revenues that are unheard of in the solar industry.

Over the past 12 years, management has worked with dye doped TiO2, CIGS materials, CdTe CdS materials, a-Si materials, Si materials and a Si Graphite/Graphene blend. It now has created the first dye doped Graphite/Graphene Solar Cell.

Management has applied for and has been awarded over 30 patents in various areas of Photovoltaics. Additional patents both in the US and worldwide are being prepared. For more information please visit the company’s web site at www.photovoltaicsolarcells.com, email the company at pvso@photovoltaicsolarcells.com

Livermore, CA, May 30, 2008
Source: REC Solar press release/Businesswire /yahoo finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080530/20080530005154.html?.v=1
REC Solar to provide deep discounts on solar electric systems to Livermore residents for a limited time

Leading residential and commercial solar installation company REC Solar announced they have been selected as a preferred solar electricity provider by The Livermore Solar Electricity Group. To celebrate, REC Solar is running a special summer program offering Livermore residents deep discounts on solar electric systems for their homes and businesses. (more…)

conf.website:  http://www.33pvsc.org/public/
This conference will be held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego, May 11–16, 2008.

Deadline for paper submission: April 11, 2008
Late-News contributions are designed to accommodate recent results that are reaching the maturity that warrants presentation at the PVSC 33.  All Late-News contributions will be presented in the most appropriate poster session.

U.S. Department of Energy to Provide up to $2.4 Million to Advance Solar Energy in 12 U.S. Cities
Source: US Dept of Energy press release (more…)

German company Concentrix Solar has won an innovation award for its photovoltaic concentrator technology.
Source: EnvironmentalResearchWeb, Mar 13, 2008
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/futures/33333

Awarded by the Wirtschaftsclub Rhein-Main, an association of German companies, the prize recognizes the innovation of the company’s Flatcon technology. Concentrix claims the use of concentrator technology means cells achieve twice the efficiency when compared with conventional photovoltaics and gives cost savings of 10 to 20% for electric power production, depending on the location. (more…)

Source: AzoOptics.com / March 26, 2008
http://azooptics.com/Details.asp?newsID=2220

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. today announced that its German solar partner, Asola Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems GmbH, has won a $20 million contract from Krannich Solar, for the supply of high-efficiency silicon photovoltaic solar modules. Krannich Solar, which is one of the largest solar system providers in Europe, will take delivery of Asola’s high quality products in 2008. (more…)

Horizontal Deployment of Thin-Film Technology for TFT LCDs – Annual Production Capacity on 1 GW Scale
Tokyo, Japan, Mar 27, 2008
Source:Sharp Corporation / press release
http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/080327.html

Sharp Corporation has made a total capital investment of approximately 72 billion yen to build a thin-film solar cell plant in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture that is capable of boosting annual production up to a scale of 1 GW per year.  Production will begin by March 2010 with a 480 MW initial production capacity for solar cells. Combined with the 160 MW capacity of the Katsuragi Plant (Nara Prefecture), this will expand Sharp’s global total production capacity for thin-film solar cells to 1 GW in April 2010. (more…)

Bedford, MA, March 28, 2008
Source: Spire Corp. press release / BusinessWire /
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=76421&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1122993

Spire Corporation, (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide, today announced it will participate in the 2008 Photon Photovoltaic Technology Show in Munich, Germany from April 2 to April 4, 2008. Spire Corporation’s Chairman and CEO, Roger Little, along with senior members of Spire’s management team, will attend the conference.
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New 20MW Crystalline Module Line in Portugal Follows Completion of 12MW Factory in the Dominican Republic
Bedford,  MA, March 12, 2008
Source: Spire Corp. press release / BusinessWire /
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=76421

Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide, today announced it has received a contract from the solar division of Spanish renewable energy company Fluitecnik S.A., to provide a photovoltaic module assembly line for that company’s operations in Portugal. Spire will provide Fluitecnik with a semi-automated crystalline module manufacturing line capable of producing up to 20 megawatts (MW) of solar modules per year for sale into the European solar marketplace. Spire will supply the process technology and training to operate the factory, as well as assistance in qualifying the factory and its modules to meet rigorous International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards and certification. The line will integrate Spire’s key stringing and tabbing, lamination, and testing machines along with intermediate tooling stations; it is designed to be easily expandable at a later date. Spire recently completed a 12MW crystalline cell module line, expandable to 20MW, for Fluitecnik in the Dominican Republic. (more…)