Solar Cells Info

Source: Azooptics.com /March 5, 2008
http://azooptics.com/Details.asp?newsID=2028

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. today announced that its German solar partner, Asola Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems GmbH, has been awarded a contract by AS Solar GmbH for the supply of high-efficiency silicon photovoltaic solar modules. The value of this contract is estimated at $135 million over a three year period, beginning in 2008, and subject to final negotiations on quantity and price in 2009 and 2010.
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http://www.globalsolar.com/

Global Solar has developed a proprietary process for manufacturing (“roll-roll” manufacturing) thin-film Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) photovoltaic (PV) modules. Unlike traditional solar panels that are rigid, heavy and fragile, Global Solar’s thin-film solar modules are lightweight, flexible and durable. While other companies produce CIGS on glass, Global Solar is the only company with CIGS on flexible materials. (more…)

Reporting by Sakari Suoninen; editing by James Jukwey
HELSINKI, Feb 20, 2008
Source: Reuters UK
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL2047318020080220

Finnish copper products maker Luvata said on Wednesday it would invest 20 million euros ($29 million) in production equipment for solar panel wires, hoping to benefit from renewable energy boom.  Solar panel makers are demanding thinner photovoltaic wires as panels become smaller, and Luvata’s thinner wires minimise shadowing on the energy-capturing cells, it said.
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By Duke Helfand, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, February 20, 2008
Source: LATimes
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/
la-me-green20feb20,1,1943355.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other municipal leaders unveiled a green energy initiative Tuesday by the city’s utility that they predict will create as many as 400 union jobs over the next three years to install and maintain solar panels on city buildings and other structures around Los Angeles.
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Escalating oil prices are pushing operators to use alternative energies to power cellular base stations in remote areas of the world
by Jack Ewing, Europe /Feb. 20, 2008
Source: BusinessWeek.com
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/feb2008/gb20080220_277413.htm

Mobile phones long ago began conquering parts of the world that are far away from the nearest electrical substation. But the rising price of oil is exposing a problem with the networks that connect mobile handsets together.  In the far reaches of places like India or Africa, where companies such as Ericsson (ERIC) or Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture of Nokia (NOK) and Siemens (SI), are installing new cellular base stations at a furious pace, the facilities almost always get their power from diesel-powered generators. (more…)

by Emma Ritch  / February 29, 2008
Source: Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/03/03/
story1.html?b=1204520400%5E1598029

The solar industry is giving rise to a new crop of small businesses, but these companies are hitting roadblocks when it comes to filling their “green collar” jobs.  Despite unprecedented interest in clean technology, the small firms that make up most of the solar industry in the Bay Area are struggling because they need more workers who are trained and certified to complete the complex tasks associated with photovoltaic systems, according to the first comprehensive report on the solar industry in the Bay Area.
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by Grayson Steinberg. Cronkite News Service
Phoenix, AZ, Feb. 28, 2008
Source: Tucsoncitizen.com
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/78158.php

As Arizona looks to tap more of its most abundant resource, sunshine, state lawmakers want to create tax breaks for power plant builders and to help homeowners, businesses and schools convert to solar power.  At least six bills this session address solar energy. (more…)

FreeLoader 8.0 Portable Solar Charger Launched, promises to power an iPod for 18 hours
by Stuart Miles, 28 feb. 2008
Source:
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/13114/14138/
gadget-solar-power-charger-launched.phtml

Tech fans users can now show their green credentials by opting to charge their new shiny gadgets by solar power.  Solar Technology has launched its latest solar power charger the FreeLoader 8.0 Portable Solar Charger. It, according to the company, promises to charge a multitude of the latest mobile gadgets for free using solar energy even with our poor weather in the UK.
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Peccell Develops Large-Area High-Voltage Solar Cell Modules; To Start Sample Shipments of Thin Flexible Solar Cells in 2009
Yokohama, Japan, Feb 26, 2008
Source: Peccell Technologies press release/  JCN Newswire
http://japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=17102
Peccell Technologies, Inc. has developed a technology to produce large-area high-voltage film-type dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) modules with a high-speed, low-cost printing process. Peccell, based in Yokohama City and led by Prof. Tsutomu Miyasaka, Toin University of Yokohama, has been developing next-generation thin flexible DSCs jointly with Fujimori Kogyo Co., Ltd. and Showa Denko K.K.
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by Kui Kinyanjui
Business Daily (Nairobi) / 26 February 2008
Source: AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200802260953.html

Investors from China are expected in Nairobi next week to deliberate the fate of a Sh9 billion solar energy factory whose construction has been thrown into doubt by the political uncertainty in the country.  The joint initiative between a Kenyan partner and a Chinese solar panel manufacturer was supposed to have seen the completion of a local solar panel factory on Mombasa Road in Nairobi by the end of the month. (more…)