Solar Cells Info

By Kinga Dema, Kuensel Online, 20 August 2007
Source: Kuensel Online (Bhutan’s news)
http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8917

The Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction is sponsoring 26 rural Bhutanese women to be trained in India in the use and maintenance of solar equipment in their villages.  According to the Department of Energy, the executing agency, the women, who left for India on August 17, were selected from 18 villages from across the country. They will be trained for six months in Rajasthan Barefoot College, a community based non-governmental organisation.
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by Andrea Eilenberger, The Express-Times
Phillipsburg, August 24, 2007
By ANDREA EILENBERGER

Town planning board members Thursday night approved the manufacturer’s plan to construct a canopy to support solar panels. Using the panels will save the Riverside Way plant about 25 percent of its regular energy use per year, plant manager Raymond Freaney said.  Alternative use is “definitely an initiative throughout the state,” Freaney said.
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New Delhi, Delhi, India, Aug 22, 2007
Source: IndiaPRWire.com
http://www.indiaprwire.com/businessnews/20070822/24040.htm

Some 25,000 villages in India will get solar energy by 2012 as part of the government’s plan to promote clean energy in the country, Minister for New and Renewable Energy Vilas Muttemwar said here Wednesday.  ‘With such a vast pool of renewable resources available, the government wants to provide energy in every village and lighting in every house,’ Muttemwar said in his address at an event to mark Energy Day in memory of late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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Aug. 23, 2007 /Energy Tribune Staff
Source. EnergyTribune.com
http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=608

India is getting a share of the booming global market for photovoltaic panels. California-based Signet Solar recently announced that it will invest $2 billion over the next decade to set up three solar photovoltaic manufacturing units in India.  When completed, each of the three plants will have an annual output of 300 megawatts. Signet Solar chairman and founder Prabhu Goel said he was “convinced that India is ideal for manufacturing the world’s lowest-cost solar modules.” The company is also planning a research and development center in India.
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New Delhi, Aug. 21, 2007
Source: PTI / The Hindu online
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/218200708212123.htm

Reliance Industries, India’s biggest oil firm by market value, will soon foray into solar power generation through pilot projects that will supply electricity to a few villages in Maharashtra.  “In the next 8-12 months, pilots will be launched in 38 villages in Maharashtra. These will not be connected with the grid and the solar ecosystems will provide power to these villages,” RIL Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani said here.
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By Sally Apgar, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
West Palm Beach, FL, September 1, 2007
Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/
sfl-flpsolartrain0901pnsep01,0,6274584.story

WEST PALM BEACH – People are waiting on the “Solar City” train platform. One is a businessman, sporting a 1950s-era brown fedora. His gray suit jacket hangs over his left arm and a brown briefcase dangles from his right hand. He looks almost like he’s sweating in the hot sun. A long-legged boy in a red T-shirt and shorts is lounging on a wooden bench, hot dog in hand.
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Peter Clarke, EE Times Europe,
London, Aug 27, 2007
Source. EETimes.com
http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201802370

Solar Semiconductor Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has said it has signed a supply contract with Q-Cells AG (Thalheim, Germany) worth $170 million.  Solar, with its manufacturing base in Hyderabad, India, has signed a multiyear agreement for the supply of 156-mm mono- and multicrystalline cells by Q-Cells for use in module production in Solar’s photovoltaic module manufacturing plant in India. (more…)

ARISE Technologies Corporation Announces Start of Construction of PV Cell Manufacturing Plant and Update on High Efficiency PV Cell Program
Waterloo, ON, Aug. 30, 2007
Source. Artse Technologies press release
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2007/30/c4225.html

ARISE Technologies Corporation  announced today that it has started construction of its photovoltaic cell manufacturing plant in Bischofswerda, Germany. HOCHTIEF Construction AG, the general contractor for the project is on site and has started construction. The Company expects to have the building weather tight before the end of this year and to be producing PV cells early in the 2nd quarter of 2008. Pictures of the construction site are located at
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Oslo, Norway, Aug 21, 2007
Source: Norsk Hydro ASA, press release
http://www.hydro.com/en/press_room/news/archive/2007_08/ascent_en.html

Hydro is investing an additional NOK 62 million in the solar energy company Ascent Solar, a producer of super-thin, flexible solarcell modules. In March this year, Hydro invested NOK 56 million, making for a total investment of NOK 118 million in the Colorado-based company. “Ascent has developed an exciting and future-oriented solar cell technology, and we believe there will be a large market for their products. Its super-thin, flexible solar cell modules go very well with Hydro’s building systems activities, and we look forward to maintaining our prosperous partnership with Ascent,” says Einar Glomnes, head of Hydro’s solar division. (more…)

Woodbury, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2007
Source: Veeco Instruments Inc. Press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=111487&p=NewsArticle&id=1043116

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq:VECO) has introduced a line of new production-scale PV-Series(TM) Thermal Deposition Sources, enabling copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin film solar manufacturers to more quickly transition from pilot to full scale solar cell production. Veeco’s new line of thermal deposition sources for CIGS includes PV-Series SUMO(R) (for copper, indium and gallium) and PV-Series Valved (for selenium and sulfur) for R & D and production environments. (more…)