Solar Cells Info

Suntech’s first participation in exhibitions in Japan – Some of the modules Suntech presented
Motonobu Kawai, Nikkei Electronics /Oct 11, 2007
Source: nikkeibp.co.jp
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20071011/140543/

Suntech Power Co. Ltd. of China has presented its products at “the 2nd Renewable Energy 2007 International Exhibition & Conference” being held at Makuhari Messe. This is the first time that the company ever participates in exhibitions held in Japan.  Taking this as a good opportunity, “We will enhance our Presence in the Japanese market,” said an attendant at the company’s booth. Distributing reference materials in Japanese, Suntech was striving to appeal its products at the exhibition site.
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Oct 15, 2007
Source: EMSnow.com
http://www.emsnow.com/npps/story.cfm?id=29577&pg=story

Wafer Works Corp. and Sino-American Silicon Products, Inc., both of which supply polycrystalline silicon to solar-cell makers, recently forecast at a photovoltaic forum in Taipei that their revenues to likely keep surging until 2010. Until last month, Sino-American and Wafer Works have seen their monthly revenue set new high for 26 and 19 consecutive months,
respectively.
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Jimmy Hsu, Taipei; Esther Lam
Source; DigiTimes, 16 October 2007
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20071015PD201.html

Sun Well Technology is about to complete construction of its production plant for thin-film solar cell production in Taiwan in mid-November with volume production slated to follow in the second quarter of 2008. The company is confident about its competitive technology edge, as well as an early presence in the industry, and aims to be one of the top-five thin-film solar cell makers in the future.
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October 12, 2007
Source: Gizmag.com/ from ecoGizmo
http://www.gizmag.com/go/8161/

In another development that aims to make alternative energy generation more efficient and more affordable, Braggone has discovered a method of capturing more light in a solar cell. The result is a new product line that greatly increases the efficiency of solar cells and allows manufacturing facilities to cost-effectively increase their capacity.
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October 16, 2007
Source. Gizmag.com /from ecoGizmo
http://www.gizmag.com/go/8181/

The 2007 Panasonic World Solar Challenge kicks off this Sunday October 21. An established platform for the promotion and development of sustainable energy in transport, the biennial race runs for seven days and covers a distance of 3000 km (nearly 1900 miles) from Darwin to Adelaide in Australia. This year 40 teams from across the globe will compete including the Avivasolarcar, a vehicle capable of achieving speeds of up to 75kmh (47mph) while emitting no carbon dioxide and using less electricity than is generated by a toaster.
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October 15, 2007
Source: TradingMarkets.com
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/703296/

Grid-connected solar power is on track to become cost-competitive with electricity generated by conventional sources by 2015 in parts of Europe and by 2020 in many regions of the world, a report released last week by Greenpeace and the European Photovoltaic Industry Association concludes.  Solar Generation IV–2007, the fourth iteration of a report prepared jointly since 2001 by the global environmental organization and the European solar industry trade group–concludes that by 2020, costs for rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems could drop by more than 50 percent from 2006 levels in most parts of the world if current trends continue.
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The sun’s energy helps provide power for the harvest. Owners save electricity costs and do their part for the planet.
Source: The Associated Press, October 13, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-solarwine13oct13,1,4064494.story?
coll=la-mininav-business&ctrack=1&cset=true

Clusters of harvest-ready grapes, pendulous and purple, dangle among deep green leaves at Frog’s Leap winery in Rutherford, Calif., waiting to become Napa Valley wine. But a few rows over is a plant of a different kind — an array of square-faced solar panels that provide the power to keep operations humming. Winemakers in Napa Valley and elsewhere are bottling sunshine in more ways than one this year. (more…)

Amsterdam, October 15th 2007
Source: GreentechMedia.com
http://www.greentechmedia.com/press-releases/pr-mastervolt-187.html

At this year’s Panasonic World Solar Challenge, the world’s toughest race for solar-powered vehicles, Mastervolt is equipping for the second time one of the top favorites, the Nuon Solar Team. The Panasonic World Solar Challenge, in which 61 teams from 20 countries will be competing, takes place October 21- 28, 2007 in Australia, over a distance of 3,000 km. Mastervolt is equipping the Nuon Solar Team, which has won the race three times in a row, with a complete system for the provision of a mobile electrical supply to the escort vehicle ‘Mission Control’. Throughout the course of the entire race, important parameters of energy supply will be analyzed and the optimum speed determined via this mobile control center.
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Macy’s launches 28-store 8.9-MW system; Agilent plans 1-MW system.
Westminster, California, 02 October 2007
Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com]
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=50129

Macy’s is launching a program to install solar electric power systems at 28 California stores, including 15 in Southern California. SunPower Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency, solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, is partnering with Macy’s to design and install the systems.
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Debasish Chattopadhyay, Calcutta
Source: Telegraph India
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070917/asp/calcutta/story_8317180.asp

Solar lamps will be installed on an “accident-prone”, five-km stretch of the EM Bypass, from Chingrihata to Parama Island.  “The lamps, 40 have been planned initially. will be of great help to motorists who negotiate the stretch almost in the dark after sunset. The situation gets worse during monsoon,” said S.P. Gonchowdhury, the director of the West Bengal Renewable Energy Agency (WBREDA), which has taken up the project.
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