Solar Cells Info

by David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer, July 15, 2008
Source: SFGate.com
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/14/BUNL11OVEF.DTL

California has added enough solar power to its electrical grid this year to light a small town, according to an update released Monday on the state’s solar rebate program.  Those rebates, which go to businesses and homeowners who put solar panels on their roofs, have funded enough new installations this year to generate 59.4 megawatts of electricity, about enough to juice up 44,550 homes. All told, that’s more solar power than was installed in all of 2006, according to the update from the California Public Utilities Commission.
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by Matthew L. Wald, July 8, 2008
Source: International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/08/business/solar.php

A Michigan company, Energy Conversion Devices, planned to announce Tuesday that it would provide the solar electric system for what it says will be the world’s largest rooftop array, on a General Motors assembly plant in Zaragoza, Spain. The project will be 12 megawatts, a huge number in a field where most arrays are measured in kilowatts.  Solar cell arrays on houses are commonly a handful of kilowatts, or thousandths of a megawatt. On big commercial buildings, installations of one or two megawatts have become common. A one-megawatt installation will run about 1,000 window air-conditioners simultaneously, at least as long as the sun is shining. (more…)

Tracking Technology to Generate Solar Power at Shopping Centers, Landfills, Open Spaces
San Diego, CA, July 11, 2008
Source: MarketWatch.com
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/harnessing-sun-sdge-launches-largest/
story.aspx?guid=%7B2F5450D4-BB1A-468F-B813-3BECCCA20A60%7D&dist=hppr

Joined by state officials and local community leaders, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) today announced plans for the largest solar power installation in San Diego. SDG&E’s program is aimed at increasing adoption of solar power among San Diego-area commercial customers, municipalities and institutions — a key sector that can support more substantial generating sites. SDG&E plans the largest concentration in San Diego of advanced, solar-tracking technology, with an initial target of developing 70 to 80 megawatts of solar electricity, about two-thirds of which would be utility-owned and, the remainder, customer- or third-party owned. Combined, the installations could be enough to power more than 50,000 homes. (more…)

Business Standard Reporter / Chennai/ Bangalore July 04, 2008
http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?autono=327731&leftnm=8&subLeft=0&chkFlg=

Applied Materials, a US-based nano-manufacturing technology solutions provider, on Thursday said it has commenced a second round of dialogue with Moser Baer Photo Voltaic Ltd (MBPV) for supplying critical production equipment to the latter’s thin film photo voltaics modules manufacturing facility at Greater Noida. (more…)

Taean, July 8, 2008
Source: KoreaTimes/TehranTims
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=172653

LG Solar Energy, an affiliate of LG Group, has completed the nation’s biggest solar energy plant here in the western coastal region and started producing electricity. The facility, which is the result of some 110 billion won investment by teaming up with the local government on some 300,000 square meters of land, will have a 14-megawatt total output capacity, which is enough to meet the power needs of 8,000 households around the region, a company spokesman said. (more…)

Jiangsu, China, June 30, 2008
Source: Canadian Solar Inc, press release/PRNewswire
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=196781&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1170437

Canadian Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: CSIQ) today announced it signed a ten-year supply contract with LDK Solar, a leading manufacturer of multi-crystalline and mono- crystalline solar wafers. LDK has been a key supplier to CSI since summer of 2006. This new ten-year supply contract is in addition to the three-year supply contract signed between CSI and LDK in October 2007. LDK expects to begin the ramp up of its in-house polysilicon manufacturing project in the second half of 2008. (more…)

Jiangsu, China, July 7,, 2008
Source: Canadian Solar Inc, press release/PRNewswire
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=196781&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1172170

Canadian Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: CSIQ) today announced it signed five new sales agreements in Italy and the Czech Republic in the past three weeks. The customers covered under these agreements are WSW in the Czech Republic, and Arco Energy, AC Service, Ravano Green Power and Albatec of Italy.  The total volume of shipments for 2008 for the above mentioned new agreements totals 14.9 MW and reflects sales of CSI’s regular module products. The sales will be realized in the second half of 2008 and are in addition to existing shipments to customers in Germany, Spain, USA, Korea and China. (more…)

by Anand Parthasarathy
Source: The HINDU, July 4, 2008
http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/04/stories/2008070452971800.htm

The Noida-based Moser Baer, makers of optical storage products, will soon roll out the largest solar photo voltaic (SPV) panels ever fabricated in India — 5.7 sq. metres — making it the biggest customer in the country for the U.S.-based Applied Materials.  The SPV manufacturing process that is in final pre-production trials is based on the SunFab thin film line technology sourced from a global leader in nano manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photo panel industry, which has had an Indian marketing and development presence since 2002. (more…)

Baoding, China, June 5, 2008
Source: Yingli Solar press release
http://ir.yinglisolar.com/e/press_detail.php?pkey=40&news_date_year=2008

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) (“Yingli Green Energy” or the “Company”), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated photovoltaic (“PV”) product manufacturers, today announced that it has entered into a sales contract with EN-NEO NEUE ENERGIEN GmbH (“EN-NEO”), one of the leading specialists in PV energy projects worldwide. Under the terms of the agreement, Yingli Green Energy is expected to supply 9.19 MW of PV modules to EN-NEO from October 2008 to December 2008. In addition, EN-NEO has an option to purchase another 9 MW of PV modules from Yingli Green Energy in 2009. The modules to be supplied will be installed in a solar power plant EN-NEO is constructing in Bad Sobernheim, Germany. (more…)

by Nuying Huang, Taipei; Esther Lam
Source: DIGITIMES, 7 July 2008
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20080707PD210.html

During a recent photovoltaic (PV) show in Germany, Auria Solar and Green Energy Technology secured thin-film solar module orders that exceed their available capacity, according to industry sources. Auria Solar, a joint venture between E-ton Solar Tech and Lite-On Group, secured a batch of orders for 60 peak megawatt (MWp) during the show. There were even more orders but Auria decided not to take all after reviewing its capacity and volume production schedule, the sources said. (more…)