Solar Cells Info

Source: Hindustan Times / OneWorld South Asia
http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/147403/1/1893

Imagine running your computer on a solar energy backup for five hours a day! It’s possible, says an expert who sees India as a promising destination for alternative sources of power.  Terence “Terry” J Hart, vice chairman and technical director of IT Power India Pvt Ltd, sees states like Karnataka and West Bengal ahead in the use of alternative energy. A lot is happening in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu too, and Gujarat is coming up well.
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The First MLB Ballpark to Install a Solar System will Generate Green Energy for PG&E Customers in the City and County of San Francisco

Source: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, press release March 21, 2007
http://www.pge.com/news/news_releases/q1_2007/070321.html

SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Giants and Pacific Gas and Electric Company today announced a joint partnership to install a solar system at AT&T Park. AT&T Park, the first ballpark in Major League Baseball (MLB) to install a solar system, will provide up to 120 kilowatts of green energy for PG&E customers in the City and County of San Francisco.  “We are thrilled to partner with PG&E to bring green power to San Francisco,” said Peter Magowan, Giants president and managing general partner. “Through this partnership, we hope to raise awareness about the importance of using energy wisely and efficiently and about the need to develop and utilize renewable energy sources.”
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source: Photonics.com
http://www.photonics.com/content/news/2007/March/8/86858.aspx

GOLDEN, Colo., March 8, 2007 — Two scientists at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) who pioneered the multijunction solar cell have been named Dan David Prize laureates for 2007. Jerry Olson and Sarah Kurtz received their award and two-thirds of the $1 million prize in a ceremony today in Paris.   Olson and Kurtz share the Dan David Prize, endowed by the Dan David Foundation and located at Tel Aviv University in Israel, with NASA climate scientist James Hansen. Olson and Kurtz were selected for their “exceptional and profound contributions to the field of photovoltaic energy,” the prize committee said. Solar cells based on the scientists’ work “have the potential to alleviate the world’s impending energy crisis,” according to the committee.
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By JACOB GREBER, Bloomberg News, March 20, 2007
source: The New York Sun
http://www.nysun.com/article/50810

ZURICH, Switzerland — Bertrand Piccard, who along with his co-pilot became the first to fly around the world in a hot-air balloon, won financial support from Germany’s biggest bank to build a solar-powered aircraft that can fly around the globe. The aircraft, with a wing span of 264 feet, will be able to take off and fly using energy from the sun. Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executiv e Officer Joseph Ackermann said his bank will contribute $12 million of the project’s estimated $82.5 million cost.
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The Next DSC Industrialisation Conference (DSC-IC 2007)

source: DYESOL NEWSLETTER Issue 1. 2007.

Following the successful first Industrialisation of DSC conference last year in Canberra, Australia, Dyesol is pleased to announce that the 2nd DSC Conference will be held in St Gallen, Switzerland, 11- 13 September 2007.  Dyesol is a Platinum Sponsor for the NanoEurope Fair and Conference and will host the 2nd DSC Conference in conjunction with NanoEurope.

The conference will bring together scientists, technologists, engineers, industrialists, investors and others interested in the development of DSC technologies. Very much aligned with the significantly increased DSC development efforts worldwide, the key objective of this 2nd DSC-IC is to strengthen the DSC community at large and to assist the numerous DSC commercialization programs in particular.

Prof Andreas Luzzi, President of Dyesol Group company Greatcell Solar and professor and director of the Institut für Solartechnik, will be conference chairman. Eminent invited speakers will come from Japan, China, Korea, USA, SE Asia and throughout Europe. As well as the lectures on advances in DSC wordwide and opportunities for networking, there will be site visits to EPFL and the Institut für Solartechnik SPF Rapperswil.

It is our great pleasure to invite you to attend the 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on the INDUSTRIALISATION of DSC (DSC-IC 2007), in the beautiful, world heritage listed city of St.Gallen, Switzerland.

To register your interest to attend and for further information please go to:
www.dyesol.com/conference/

source: Myiris.com
http://www.myiris.com/newsCentre/newsPopup.php?fileR=20070322081532121

Tata Power, subsidiary Tata BP Solar India, provider of solar power systems, announced an USD 100 million expansion plan, to be implemented over 18 months, reports Mint. The investment aims at, doubling the manufacturing capacity of solar photovoltaic cells at its Bangalore plant. Tata BP Solar India, a 51:49 JV between BP Solar and Tata Power, (Q, N,C,F)* commenced its commercial operations in 1991. The joint venture has invested USD 25 million in India.
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source: Solar EnerTech Corp. press release /March 21, 2007
http://www.solarenertech.com/news/release.asp?numb=222

Solar EnerTech Corp. (OTCBB: SOEN) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce the final closing of its private placement with institutional investors in the amount of $9.0 million on March 19, 2007, bringing the total principal amount of Convertible Notes sold in its private placement offering to $17.3 million. Knight Capital Markets, LLC, a NASD member firm, acted as sole placement agent in connection with this offering.
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Nuying Huang, Taipei; Rodney Chan, DigiTimes.com /21 March 2007
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20070321PD208.html

China-based Suntech Power has become the world’s third largest solar cell supplier following Japan-based Sharp and Germany-based Q-Cells, according a Suntech executive. Suntech’s solar cell shipments totaled 150MW in 2006, and total output for 2007 is expected at 270-280MW, Steven Chan, vice president of business development at Suntech, said during a Merrill Lynch seminar.
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By Kevin Bullis /March 21, 2007
source: MIT Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18415/page1/

Much more efficient solar cells may soon be possible as a result of technology that more efficiently captures and uses light. StarSolar, a startup based in Cambridge, MA, aims to capture and use photons that ordinarily pass through solar cells without generating electricity. The company, which is licensing technology developed at MIT, claims that its designs could make it possible to cut the cost of solar cells in half while maintaining high efficiency. This would make solar power about as cheap as electricity from the electric grid.

The effort uses a type of material called a photonic crystal that makes it possible to “do things with light that have never been done before,” says John Joannopoulos, a professor of physics at MIT who heads the lab where the new designs for solar applications were developed. Photonic crystals, which can be engineered to reflect and diffract all the photons in specific wavelengths of light, have long been attractive for optical communications, in which the materials can be used to direct and sort light-borne data. Now new manufacturing processes could make the photonic crystals practical for much-larger-scale applications such as photovoltaics.
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March 14, 2007
Source: Ascent Solar /press release
http://www.ascentsolar.com/view.php?tg=press&id=19
Hydro has entered into an agreement to invest USD 9.2 million in the American solar energy company Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., which has developed a super thin and flexible solar cell technology. The investment gives Hydro a 23 per cent ownership interest in Ascent Solar. “Ascent Solar’s flexible thin film is very exciting. Not only due to the low weight that makes the solar cells easy to transport, install and maintain, but also because flexible solar cells have a large number of potential applications in the future”, says Jørgen C. Arentz Rostrup, who heads the market activities in Hydro’s Oil & Energy business area.
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