Solar Cells Info

Alzenau, Germany, 22.06.2007
Source: SCHOTT Solar GmbH press release
http://www.verivox.de/News/ArticleDetails.asp?aid=54674&pm=1

At this year’s Intersolar, SCHOTT Solar will be introducing the new framed version of the ASI F-90 thin-film module. In comparison to the previous model, ASI-F 32/12, this module produces nearly three times as much output, offering 86 watts to start with. Thanks to its design and dimensions, it is easy to install and particularly well-suited for large roofs and open surfaces in industrial and rural areas, but also stand-alone installations. With the introduction of the ASI F-90 an alternative module will be available to the market that is also ideally suited for off-grid usage.
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Algiers, 19 Jun 2007
Source: Reuters -Africa
http://africa.reuters.com/business/news/usnBAN923494.html

Algeria plans to make use of its hot southern desert to develop solar power for export and domestic consumption, the OPEC member country said on Monday.  The scheme is due to be completed by 2015 in Africa’s second-largest country, where most of the 33 million peopele live in the northern coastal strip. Temperatures in the desert south are high.
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By Nimfa Doroteo-Camua, June 24, 2007
Source: SunStar of Phillippines
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2007/06/24/bus/solar.power.for.communities.html

IS THERE money in solar energy for communities, service providers and micro finance institutions? Rural Power Project (RPP) Director Mylene Capongcol said the use of solar energy under the project is a cycle of benefits for families, communities, local government units, solar system providers and micro finance institutions (MFIs). (more…)

Singapore/Seoul, 9 May 2007
Source: SunTechnics / press release
http://www.suntechnics.com/pmeldungen/ST_US_DongYang_070509.pdf

Before the year is over, the largest photovoltaic plant will be constructed in
SinAn, southwest of the Korean capital Seoul. The leading construction company in Korea, Dongyang Engineering & Construction Corporation of Seoul, commissioned the German company SunTechnics, a subsidiary of the TecDax listed Conergy AG (ISIN DE 00060 40025) with the planning and implementation of the 90 million Euro solar power plant.
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Sacramento, Calif., May 10, 2007
Source: SunTechnics Energy Systems / press release
http://www.suntechnics.com/pmeldungen/ST_US%20_AztecSolar_070510.pdf

SunTechnics Energy Systems Inc., a leading renewable energy system provider, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held
Aztec Solar of Rancho Cordova, Calif. SunTechnics Energy Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hamburg, Germany-based SunTechnics GmbH. Under the agreement, Ed Murray, Aztec’s founder and owner, will be responsible for the SunTechnics U.S. solar thermal business unit.

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Sacramento, Calif., June, 15 2007.
SunTechnics Press Release
http://www.suntechnics.com/pmeldungen/ST_US_PerformanceGuarantee_070615.pdf

SunTechnics introduces an energy performance guarantee to ensure solar-system owners’ investment.  SunTechnics is offering commercial and residential solar power customers an energy performance guarantee that ensures optimal return on investment. This unique energy performance guarantee included in the final system price assures commercial and residential solar customers the specified kWh energy output for 10 years.  The SunTechnics performance guarantee is the only one in the industry offering monetary compensation regardless of system size and kind of
installation.

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Barcelona site to use solar energy for electricity generation, solar hot water for industrial processes
By Brad Kenney, June 15, 2007
Source: Industry Week
http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=14418&SectionID=2

Japanese automobile manufacturer Nissan Motor Co. will install 606 solar panels at its Barcelona vehicle plant by the end of this summer. The new initiative complements other programs either already in place at or planned for other Nissan facilities, including six wind turbines at its UK-based Sunderland plant and 732 panels slated for installation this summer at its light commercial vehicle plant in Avila, Spain.
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Rochester Hills, Mich., June 7, 2007
Source: United Solar Ovonic /press release
http://www.uni-solar.com/FeaturedNews/UnitedSolarOvonic_SolarCraft_060607.pdf

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD) (NASDAQ: ENER) announced the installation of its UNI-SOLAR® ground-mounted amorphous thin-film photovoltaic (PV) panels to power the 1.1 Megawatt solar energy system at Paramount Farms, Inc., the world’s largest vertically integrated
supplier of pistachios and almonds. The installation, which spans 8 acres, is one of the largest single-site, privately-owned solar energy systems in the U.S. SolarCraft, one of the most experienced solar energy contractors, completed the installation.
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Developer of CIGS/Se thin film solar technology has been nominated for the World Clean Energy Award

Oldenburg and Brandenburg/Havel, Germany, 11 June 2007.
Source: Aleo Solar /press release
http://www.aleo-solar.de/index.php/page_id/49/language/en

Aleo solar has been granted the right to distribute up to 80 percent of Johanna Solar Technology’s CIGSSe thin film solar modules under the aleo brand name for at least five years. (more…)

Gasabo, Rwanda, 08 Jun 2007, Energy News Editor
Source: EarthTimes.org
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/70841.html

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has inaugurated Africa’s biggest solar energy plant.  The facility, which is installed at Jali hill in Gasabo District, was funded by the German state through a company called Stadtwerke Mainz and Rhineland-Palatinate citizens, the New Times in Kigali reported.  At the launch of the facility, Kagame said there would not have been a better way to mark 25 years of cooperation between Rwanda and Germany.
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