Milano Fair Center, 25 – 28 November 2008
Source:
http://www.hitechexpo.eu/en/index_pvm.asp
Now in its 5th edition, PV TECH EXPO will be held for the first time at Milan Fair Centre from 25 to 28 November 2008. PV TECH MILANO 2008 is the exhibition on production technologies for the whole photovoltaic manufacturing industry. (more…)
by Garrett Hering
Source; PHOTON International, April 2008
http://www.photon-international.com/news_archiv/details.aspx?cat=News_PI&sub=america&pub=4&parent=968
US-based solar-grade silicon start-up AE Polysilicon on Feb. 15 broke ground on a $100 million facility located outside Philadelphia at the Key International Port Complex. The facility will use fluidized bed reactor (FBR) technology to produce granular silicon. (more…)
by Ines Rutschmann
Source: PHOTON International, April 2008
http://www.photon-international.com/news_archiv/details.aspx?cat=News_PI&sub=europe&pub=4&parent=970
Conergy AG‘s Spanish subsidiary Epuron SLU has begun construction on the Iberian peninsula on a large project based on tracking installations. The El Calaverón solar park near Villarrobledo in Castile-La Mancha is being built on a 90 hectare site. It is slated to have 20 MW of capacity. Two other parks that Epuron is currently building in Spain are the 3 MW plant Chinchilla II, in the Castillian region of Albacete, which is close to being completed, and Écija, a 1.5 MW system being built in Seville, Andalusia. (more…)
By Mikako Nakajima and Pavel Alpeyev, Tokyo, April 8, 2008
Source: Bloomberg -Japan
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aScvYXNPyjFk&refer=japan
Sumco Corp., the world’s second- largest maker of silicon wafers, expects sales of the material used to make solar power cells to gain 11-fold in the next seven years as customers including Sharp Corp. boost production. Sales of solar-cell wafers will rise to 200 billion yen ($1.9 billion) in the 12 months ending Jan. 31, 2015, from 17.8 billion yen last fiscal year, President Kenjiro Shigematsu said in an interview with Bloomberg Television broadcast today. The company’s annual output of the wafers will rise to 1,010 megawatts in the period, from 105 megawatts at present, he said.
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Source: Semiconductor Today, 9 April 2008
http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2008/APRIL/SUNOVIA_090408.htm
Renewable energy firm Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc of Sarasota, FL and EPIR Technologies Inc of Bolingbrook, IL, USA, which develops II-VI materials and devices for infrared (IR) sensor and imaging in applications including night-vision, missile tracking and space exploration, say they have developed new solar cell materials that they believe will rival the performance of the most efficient existing multi-junction solar cells, but at significantly lower cost. (more…)
Source: ScienceDaily, Apr. 10, 2008
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080410140451.htm
A new approach is able to create a dramatic improvement in cheap solar cells now being developed in laboratories. By using a popcorn-ball design — tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres — researchers at the University of Washington are able to manipulate light and more than double the efficiency of converting solar energy to electricity. The findings were presented in New Orleans at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society April 10. (more…)
Israeli energy startup Zenith Solar is pioneering a “concentrated solar power” method that is up to five times more efficient than standard technology
by Neal Sandler, Business Week Europe /March 26, 2008
Source: Businessweek.com
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/mar2008/
gb20080326_485582.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_companies
Rooftops all over Israel look strikingly similar: More than 1 million households in the nation of 7.1 million people have solar panels that produce hot water—a relatively simple technology that gained popularity after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, when oil prices shot up sharply. As of the early 1990s, all new residential buildings were required by the government to install solar water-heating systems. (more…)
Vancouver, B.C., April 1, 2008
Source: Xantrex Technology Inc press release
http://www.xantrex.com/web/did/1802/readnews.asp
Xantrex Technology Inc. (TSX:XTX) announced today it has received an order valued at over US$5.5 million from a new customer, Nuevas Energias del Sureste S.A., for Xantrex’s GT3.8 kilowatt (kW) grid-tie solar inverters. The Xantrex solar inverters will be installed at three sites in Spain: a four and three megawatt (MW) site in the region of Alhama and a three MW site in the region of Murcia, for a total of 10MW. The delivery of the Xantrex GT3.8 kW grid-tie solar inverters will take place over the next six months. (more…)
Vancouver, B.C., March 27, 2008
Source: Xantrex Technology Inc press release
http://www.xantrex.com/web/did/1800/readnews.asp
Xantrex Technology Inc. (TSX:XTX) announced today it has received a US$2 million order for grid-tie commercial solar inverters from Woojin Electric. The order is for a combination of the Xantrex GT100 (100 kilowatt) and GT250 (250 kilowatt) three phase solar inverters which are targeted for eight solar projects in Korea. Delivery of the Xantrex GT100 and GT250 grid-tie solar inverters will take place over the second quarter of 2008. (more…)
Vancouver, B.C., March 19, 2008
Source: Xantrex Technology Inc. /press release
http://www.xantrex.com/web/did/1798/readnews.asp
Xantrex Technology Inc. (TSX:XTX) announces the launch of its Xantrex™ Gateway monitoring system, an innovative wireless monitoring solution for small scale solar power installations. The Xantrex Gateway is the central communication component of a residential or small commercial solar energy system. It keeps the system owner informed about the system’s operation and energy production from any location. The Gateway’s wireless capability bridges the gap between Xantrex single phase grid tie (GT) inverters and the system owner’s computer.
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