Solar Cells Info

Los Angeles, CA, October 1, 2007
Source: Empire Solar press release/ PRweb.com
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/10/prweb557350.htm

On the heels of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Million Solar Roofs Plan being signed and the public embrace of Al Gore’s Oscar winning film “An Inconvenient Truth” and Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary “The 11th Hour”, Empire Solar Solutions, an affiliated partner company of the nation’s leading Home Improvements provider Empire Today, brings environmental and economic benefits of solar energy to greater Los Angeles area. Approximately $3 billion are available in rebates and incentives for California residents to covert to solar power – and reduce utility bills in the process. Installation of just 100,000 solar roofs in Los Angeles would cut global warming pollution by 300,000 tons per year, and reduce smog forming pollution by 90,000 pounds per year.
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Prism Solar Technologies (PST) signs product development contract with the New York State Energy R&D authority
Long Beach, California, September 25, 2007
Source: Prism Solar Technologies Inc, press release
http://www.prismsolar.com/news.html

Prism Solar Technologies, Inc. (PST) has signed a $548,000.00 product development contract with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to build and sell bifacial photovoltaic (PV) modules that incorporate PST’s proprietary holographic planar concentrator (HPC) technology.
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By David Ehrlich, cleantech.com, September 25, 2007 – Exclusive
http://media.cleantech.com/1825/suntech-takes-the-cake-at-solar-power-2007

Suntech gets manufacturing deals from Lumeta and Akeena, and introduces two new product lines.  The Solar Power 2007 conference in Long Beach, Calif., has only just begun, but China’s Suntech Power (NYSE: STP) is shining bright as an early winner.  The world’s third largest solar cell manufacturer in terms of production output, and the leader in China, racked up four announcements this week, taking on two new customers and releasing two new product lines at the conference.
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New Delhi, Sept 18, 2007
Source: Economic Times
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Energy/Power/2382728.cms

Leading German renewable energy firms have shown interest to manufacture solar cells and air-conditioners in India, taking advantage of abundant solar energy in the country.  Prozop-Solar and Q-Cells have recently held talks with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, sharing their plans to set up manufacturing facilities in India. (more…)

by Steve Bush, 20 September 2007
Source: Electronics Weekly.com
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2007/09/20/42228/

Durham University has made significant improvements in thin-film solar cells. “We have done a lot of work measuring recombination at grain boundaries and on the control and increase of grain size,” principal investigator Professor Ken Durose told EW.  Durose and his team are working on thin-film cells, three years into the Government’s sustainable power ‘Supergen’ project. (more…)

XINYU CITY, China and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 29, 2007
Source: LDK Solar Co. Ltd press release
http://www.ldksolar.com/Company%20news.html

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK), a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, announced today that it has signed a contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to Taiwan-based Neo Solar Power Corp. (NSP).
Under terms of the agreement, LDK Solar will deliver multicrystalline solar wafers to NSP valued at approximately US$495 million through the end of 2009. (more…)

Xinyu City, China and Sunnyvale, CA, September 24, 2007
Source: LDK Solar Co. Ltd, press release
http://www.ldksolar.com/Company%20news.html

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE:LDK), a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, announced today that it has signed contracts to supply multicrystalline solar wafers and to purchase polysilicon production equipment from Sunways AG. Under the terms of the wafer supply contract, LDK Solar will deliver approximately 1 GW of multicrystalline solar wafers to Sunways over a ten-year period starting in 2008. Under the terms of the equipment purchase agreement, LDK Solar will purchase two readily available Siemens technology-based reactors and related plant equipment from Sunways. In addition, Sunways AG will provide support services to LDK Solar during the facility construction and the ramp up of polysilicon production. (more…)

Suntech to Deliver 10 to 14 MW of Akeena Solar’s New Andalay Solar Panels
Los Gatos, CA & San Francisco, CA, September 24, 2007
Source: PRNewswire -CNNMoney
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/CNM03224092007-1.htm

Akeena Solar, Inc. , a leading designer and installer of solar power systems, and Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. , one of the world’s leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced that Suntech has signed a letter of intent to manufacture Akeena Solar’s Andalay solar panels. Under the terms of the agreement, Suntech will manufacture and deliver 10 to 14 Megawatts of Andalay solar panels to Akeena Solar during 2008.
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By Episcopal Life staff, September 28, 2007
Source: Episcopalchurch.org
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_90541_ENG_HTM.htm

Mention solar energy and people often think of individual roof-mounted panels. Mention stained glass and people think of traditional windows in churches. Not too many people would think to combine them, but artist Sarah Hall has done this and more, with the first stained glass installation in North America to utilize solar cells.
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Company to Receive Approximately $24 Million Over Three Years to Advance Development of Solar Systems
San Jose, CA, Sept 17, 2007
Source: SunPower Corp. press release
http://investors.sunpowercorp.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=264223

SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWR), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced it has been awarded a cost-shared, three-year cooperative agreement by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the “Grid-Competitive Residential and Commercial Fully Automated PV Systems Technology” Project. Under the cooperative agreement, SunPower is expected to receive $8,469,998 in federal funding through the completion of its first project budget period, which will be implemented through August 31, 2008. Upon successful completion of key project milestones and sustained execution of a viable business strategy, as much as $16,230,002 in additional funding will be made available for continued project implementation through June 30, 2010. The total potential funding from the DOE under the Solar American Initiative (SAI) is up to $24.7 million for this three-year project, subject to availability of funds appropriated by the U.S. Congress.
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