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Rwanda fires up Africa’s ‘biggest’ solar plant -250kW facility helps keeps the lights on

By Lester Haines, 8th June 2007
Source: Register.co.uk
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/08/rwandan_solar_plant/

Rwanda yesterday unveiled a 250-kilowatt solar plant which ups the nation’s ‘leccy-producing capacity to 50 megawatts, Reuters reports.  The German-backed project, said to be the largest in Africa, makes a modest contribution to the 100 megawatts the country needs “to meet soaring demand that has triggered regular blackouts”. Rwanda’s hydroelectric plants have struggled to cope, and many businesses get their juice from diesel generators.
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Hoku Scientific signs $678M deal with Solar Cell Maker Suntech Power of China

June 17th, 2007 by kalyan89 in Press Releases, Reports, PV-General, SC Company Reports

By Dave Segal, Star Bulletin, 14 June 2007
Source: Star Bulletin
http://starbulletin.com/2007/06/14/news/story02.html

Hoku Scientific Inc., scoring its largest deal yet since transforming itself into a supplier to solar-panel makers, said yesterday it has signed a contract with a China-based company that is worth up to $678 million.  The 10-year deal with Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd., the third-largest solar-cell maker in the world, gives subsidiary Hoku Materials more than $1 billion in contracts for polysilicon from the factory Hoku is building in Pocatello, Idaho. In January, Hoku signed a $370 million, seven-year supply contract with Osaka, Japan-based Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd.
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Honda Soltec Begins Sales of Thin Film Solar Cells

June 13, 2007. Tokyo, Japan
Source: Compoundsemiconductor.com
http://www.compoundsemi.com/documents/articles/cldoc/8467.htm

Honda Soltec Co., Ltd., Honda’s wholly-owned solar cell subsidiary, has begun sales of thin film solar cells produced by Honda Engineering Co., Ltd., primarily in the Kanto area, Japan, through distributors which also provide solar cell installation service.
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Honda Soltec Co., Ltd. has begun sales of thin film solar cells

June 17th, 2007 by kalyan89 in Press Releases, Reports, PV-General, SC Company Reports

June 14, 2007
Source: Technology News Daily
http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/7153

Honda Soltec Co., Ltd. has begun sales of thin film solar cells produced by Honda Engineering Co., Ltd., primarily in the Kanto area, Japan, through distributors which also provide solar cell installation service.  The thin film solar cell developed independently by Honda uses thin film made from a compound of copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIGS), which makes the solar cell more environmentally-responsible by focusing on the reduction of CO2 generated even during the production stage.
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Mitsubishi Electric develops highest efficiency multicrystalline Si solar cell

Mitsubishi Electric develops practical use Multi-crystalline Silicon Solar Cell with world’s highest conversion efficiency of 18%

Tokyo, May 31, 2007
Source: Mitsubishi Electric /press release
http://global.mitsubishielectric.com/bu/solar/products/pdf/PVe_0531.pdf

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (President and CEO: Setsuhiro Shimomura)
announced today its achievement of a world record (As of May 31, 2007) photoelectric conversion efficiency rate of 18.0% in a 150mm square practical use multi-crystalline silicon solar cell (Results from evaluation by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science And Technology (AIST), a public verification agency), an improvement of 1.2% over our previous models. We plan to present our technology at the Fukuoka 17th International
Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference in December 2007.
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Webel-Sl Energy Systems of India forms solar cell JV with European firm

Mumbai, 8 June 2007
Source: Domain-b.com
http://www.domain-b.com/economy/environment/20070608_european.html

Webel-Sl Energy Systems, which produces solar photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules in India, has formed a joint venture with a leading PV-cell manufacturing company in Europe to set up a production unit in West Bengal for solar cells and wafers.  Kolkata-based Webel started production about a decade ago by manufacturing 5-inch wafers with an installed capacity of 1 MW (megawatt) in technical collaboration with a European manufacturer.
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Solar energy brightens up eastern Germany

Andrew McCathie, DPA
Freiberg, Germany, June 14, 2007
Source: Eux.TV
http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=9854

Lying in the middle of what was once communist East Germany and shrouded for months under a leaden grey wintry sky, the small 800-year-old town of Freiberg would appear to be an unlikely new centre for the burgeoning global solar energy industry.  But more than 17 years after a popular uprising swept away the Soviet-backed East German state, a network of wind energy farms and new alternative energy companies have been springing up around Freiberg.
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Tibetian Dharamshala has solar powered Israeli Wi-Fi network

Dinker Vashisht
Dharamshala, June 17, 2007
Source: Indian Express
http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/33815.html

Even familiarity with Dharamshala’s cosmopolitan culture and diverse international population may not prepare one for a Japanese ‘babaji’, equipped with a laptop, running the affairs of an old, revered Hindu temple, which has a Wi-Fi connection. When he is done with his duties as the head priest, the ‘Japani Babaji’, as he is affectionately known, teaches his followers computers. The leitmotif of his preaching is that salvation lies in using technology to gain knowledge and improve one’s life.
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Tata BP Solar to supply solar power systems for offshore systems

June 17th, 2007 by kalyan89 in Press Releases, Reports, PV-General, SC Company Reports

Tata BP Solar to supply solar power systems, bags the All India Award for Engineering Excellence

Source: Equitybulls.com  June 10, 2007
http://www.equitybulls.com/admin/news2006/news_det.asp?id=13462

Tata BP Solar has won a letter of intent worth Rs113 million from PT Sempec Indonesia, a subsidiary of Punj Lloyd, India, for supply of solar power systems to four offshore platforms. The systems would power RTU / gas detection equipments and navigational aid systems for the B-134A, HI, HJ and HSC platforms. PT Sempec has been entrusted by ONGC for re-development of Heera Oil Well head platforms.
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Taiwan’s E-Ton Solar buys U.S. supplier for $153.7 million

June 16th, 2007 by kalyan89 in Press Releases, Reports, PV-General, SC Company Reports

Hong Kong, June 13, 2007 (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSTP18925220070613

E-Ton Solar Tech Co. (3452.TWO: Quote, Profile, Research), one of Taiwan’s top solar cell makers, on Wednesday said it will pay US$153.7 million in cash and stock for U.S. solar power parts maker Adema Technologies.  The move is part of a trend that has seen solar panel makers form tie-ups with materials providers to ensure supply as silicon prices climb amid rising demand for alternate energy sources.
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