Solar Cells Info

Auburn Hills, Michigan, September 17, 2007:
Source: PRNewswire/CNNMoney.com
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/CLM11017092007-1.htm

United Solar Ovonic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. , showcased its lightweight, flexible thin-film UNI-SOLAR(R) laminates during this year’s 59th Annual Primetime Emmy(R) Awards telecast which aired live on Fox Television, Sunday, September 16, 2007.
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Nuying Huang, Taipei; Esther Lam, DIGITIMES, 17 September 2007
Source: DigiTimes
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20070913PD217.html

As a leading amorphous silicon (a-Si) solar cell equipment supplier, Oerlikon emphasized that it guarantees its equipment provides a minimum power conversion rate of 7%, and the company projected that further enhancement will be seen in the near future along with the introduction of a new equipment set, said company Asia head Hai-Yan Sun.
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Chennai, Sep 18 2007
Source: LiveMint.com/Wall Street Journal

Moser Baer Ltd, a leading manufacturer of compact discs, will set up a Rs2,000 crore photo-voltaic manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu to tap solar energy as India battles an energy shortage. The company expects to earn $1 billion (Rs 4,050 crore) after five years through this facility, which will make cells that help convert solar energy into electricity, and will be the first for the New Delhi-based firm. The investment will be made through its unit Moser Baer Photo Voltaic Ltd and funded through internal accruals.

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By Brian Afuang, Manila Times, Sept 4, 2007
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/sept/04/yehey/motoring/20070904moto1.html

There must be some form of irony in the whole thing when Sinag, the first Philippine made solar car, was unveiled on a day (September 1) when the sun seemed a bit lazy to show itself, and intermittent drizzles threatened the car’s first public test run. This, after Sinag’s original launch date fell squarely on the day Typhoon Dodong visited Metro Manila. That, however, was nothing compared to the daunting task the car—and everybody involved in its creation—had overcome and still face in the future. If not irony then, it’s metaphor.

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Source: South Africa Good News /Sept. 9. 2007
http://www.sagoodnews.co.za/search/sport/544040.htm

The Advanced Energy Foundation (AEF) has launched what is to be South Africa’s very first solar car race. The South African Solar Challenge is set to take place in September 2008. Contestants will have two weeks to drive through 4150 km’s of our country’s diverse terrain, powered by nothing but the sun. The AEF has launched this scientific sporting challenge as part of its objective to promote innovation, science and technology in South Africa. “We want to raise awareness around energy and transportation technologies”, says Winstone Jordaan, 2008 Chairman of the South African Solar Challenge.
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By Mike Snyder, Houston Chronicle
Source: Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5130602.html

BP America is donating $1 million and a solar-powered buggy to help Discovery Green, the $80 million park scheduled to open next year in downtown Houston, achieve energy efficiency. The energy company’s gift, to be formally announced today, will pay for two solar panels that will be mounted on the park’s administrative office building and a restaurant, said Guy Hagstette, the park’s director. These panels and other non-polluting energy sources will provide at least 35 percent of the park’s electricity, Hagstette said.
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Source: Bizjournals.com /The Journal of New England Technology,September 10, 2007
http://www.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2007/09/10/daily5.html

Lowell solar technologies developer Konarka Technologies Inc. has entered into a development agreement with Tokyo-based Toppan Forms Co. Ltd., a maker of printable electronics and digital information technologies, according to Konarka executives. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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Lior Baron, 11 Sep 07
Source:Globes.co.il
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/DocView.asp?did=1000253526&fid=980

More than 5% of the electricity generated in Sweden, Japan, and the US is produced by solar energy. In contrast, Israel, which is ideal in terms of climate for solar power, does not yet generate electricity from solar power on a commercial scale. The failure to promote solar power is shared by all national infrastructure ministers of the past decade, who only looked at the price of electricity, while making no long-term strategies. In most developed countries, it was understood that without government subsidies, it would not be worthwhile for power companies to use the sun to generate electricity. (more…)

Mami Akasaka, Tech-On! Sep 12, 2007
Source: Tech-on
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20070912/139059/

The solar cell market is growing favorably. The worldwide solar cell market is expected to grow 3.7 times that of fiscal 2006 to 2.7716 trillion yen in fiscal 2010, according to research company Fuji Keizai Co. Ltd.  Polycrystalline Si solar cells are the current mainstream in the market, but sales will significantly expand for solar cells using no or a small amount of Si materials amid the tightening supplies of Si wafer, Fuji Keizai forecast.   (more…)

Truebbach (Switzerland), September 3, 2007
Source: Oerlikon Solar / press release
http://www.oerlikon.com/ecomaXL/index.php?site=SOLAR_EN_press_releases_detail&udtx_id=4663

Oerlikon Solar, a leading global supplier of field-proven turnkey solutions for thin-film silicon solar modules, introduced today its micromorph tandem technology highlighting its continued global strength in the growing solar industry. The environmentally friendly, energy-conscience micromorph tandem modules offer customers many advantages including the potential to achieve efficiencies of 10 percent and higher in the near future.  Oerlikon Solar’s micromorph module technology, first invented by Dr. Johannes Meier, head of the company’s R&D activities, combines two different silicon materials – amorph and microcrystalline – in a top and a bottom cell. In this way, the amorphous top cell is converting the visible part of the suns spectrum while the microcrystalline bottom cell is absorbing the sun power in the near infrared spectrum. Consequently, the new micromorph tandem technology allows boosting the efficiency level by approximately 50 percent compared to traditional amorphous single cells. (more…)