Solar Cells Info

Algiers, 14 Nov 2007
Source: Reuters Africa
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL14410372.html

An Algerian company is planning to build a power cable to Germany to export solar-generated electricity from the Sahara, a state-owned newspaper reported on Wednesday. Tewfik Hasni, chief executive of New Energy Algeria (NEAL), said the 3,000 km (1,875 mile) cable would be laid from the Algerian town of Adrar to the German city of Aachen under a project provisionally entitled “Clean Power From The Desert”, El Moudhaid daily reported. He made the remarks at an Algerian-German business meeting held to coincide with a visit to the north African country this week by German President Horst Koehler, the paper said.
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Colorado Daily Staff Report,  November 18, 2007
Source: ColoradoDaily.com
http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2007/11/18/news/c_u_and_boulder/news4.txt

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions may be no easy task, but expect Boulder County to be doing its fair share in the upcoming year. The vision for the future: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012 – with Boulder County just one of the 360 U.S. cities representing more than 55.5 million Americans who pledged to dramatically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions this year.
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November 19, 2007
Source: Applied Materials, Inc. press release /trading markets.com
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/838105/

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced an agreement to acquire Baccini S.p.A., a leading supplier of automated  metallization and test systems for manufacturing crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaic (PV) cells. This integrated equipment set addresses critical processing steps in c-Si solar cell production that significantly affect solar cell efficiency and yield, while enabling the use of ultrathin silicon wafers. Combining Baccini’s products and technologies with Applied’s semiconductor interconnect processing expertise, manufacturing capabilities, and R&D resources will provide customers with world-class, automated production technology for fabricating advanced c-Si solar cells.
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JIANGSU, China, Nov. 16, 2007
Source: Canadian Solar Inc. press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=196781&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1078912

Canadian Solar Inc. (“the Company”, or ”CSI”) (Nasdaq: CSIQ) announced that it has signed a new contract with German City Solar Group to deliver 60MW of solar modules for a series of solar power station projects in Spain. Shipment will start immediately. Installations are expected to be completed by the Summer of 2008. CSI has recently completed the delivery of 11.7 MW solar modules to City Solar for three large-scale solar power projects in Germany. The new 60 MW contract will expand the collaborations between the two companies from Germany to Spain, one of the fastest growing and strategically most important solar markets in the world.
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Jiangsu, China, Nov. 19, 2007
Source: Canadian Solar Inc. press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=196781&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1079345

Canadian Solar Inc. (“the Company”, or ”CSI”) (Nasdaq: CSIQ) today announced that it had entered into various purchase agreements (the ”Agreements”) last week with China Sunergy Co., Ltd. (”China Sunergy”). The Agreements with China Sunergy are for a total volume of 25MW of solar cells for 2008. Under the Agreements, China Sunergy will supply approximately 12MW and 13MW of solar cells to Canadian Solar in the first and second half of the year respectively. The Agreements will be denominated in both Chinese Yuan and US dollars, with approximately 24% of the volume being based on fixed pricing terms and the remainder being determined on a quarterly basis.
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by Ashley Seager, The Guardian, November 19 2007
Source: Guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/19/solarpower.energy

Damien Hirst is breathing fresh life into the renewable energy industry by ordering the country’s second largest solar power system. Hirst is to spend up to £1.5m on a 310kw solar power system for his studio buildings in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Only the Cooperative Insurance Society Tower in Manchester has a bigger system. Hirst’s solar panels will generate enough electricity to power up to 150 homes, and it is not clear whether it will feed into the national grid.
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WACKER SCHOTT Solar will produce multicrystalline silicon wafers for solar cells
Jena, Oct 29, 2007
Source:SCHOTT Solar press release
http://www.schott.com/english/news/press.html

New production facility expected to reach a capacity of 100 megawatts already by the end of 2008.  Today, the two German companies SCHOTT AG (Mainz) and Wacker Chemie AG (Munich) officially laid the cornerstone for a new silicon solar wafer manufacturing facility of their joint venture WACKER SCHOTT Solar GmbH in Jena, Germany. By April 2008, both partners will be completing stage one of their joint wafer production facility in Jena with total capital expenditures of approx. €50 million. (more…)

75 million euro investment creates 180 new jobs –
Source: SCHOTT Solar press release / Nov. 6, 2007
http://www.schott.com/english/news/press.html

Today, SCHOTT, the technology group based in Mainz, Germany, inaugurated industrial mass production of thin-film solar modules in Jena by its subsidiary, SCHOTT Solar GmbH. By investing a total of 75 million euros towards a state-of-the art manufacturing facility with a module capacity of 33 megawatts (MW) per year, SCHOTT will be creating an additional 180 jobs at its Jena site.
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Source: AZoNano.com / Nov 11, 2007
http://www.merid.org/NDN/more.php?id=1208

German technology group SCHOTT has opened an thin film solar module production plant in Japan. Udo Ungeheue of SCHOTT said, “Thin-film technology effectively saves raw materials, because it requires far less silicon. Furthermore, as a result of the great flexibility with respect to shape and design, thin-film modules are perfectly suited for integration in buildings.

They offer architects interesting possibilities to create glazing applications for windows, roofs and facades in conjunction with environmentally-friendly power generation.” The article says that SCHOTT also has solar manufacturing facilities in Germany, the Czech Republic, and the U.S and plans to expand its production of wafer-based solar cells and modules to 450 megawatts per year by 2010.

Source: Ad-hoc-News.de / 15 nov. 2007
http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/CorporateNews/en/14189216/
The-China-Solar-Cell-Industry-Report-2006-2007-Is-Available

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c74234) has announced the addition of ?China Solar Cell Industry Report, 2006-2007? to their offering.  As the inexhaustible renewable energy as well as the clean energy, solar energy does not cause any environmental pollution. Among various effective applications of solar energy, the photoelectric utilization has been the most booming and vigorous research field in the past years, which enjoys enormous industrialization prospect.
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