Solar Cells Info

ISES Solar World Congress 2007
“Solar Energy and Human Settlement”
Beijing, China, Sept 18-21, 2007

conf. website: www.swc2007.cn

After the Solar World Congresses 2003 (SWC2003) in Gothenburg, Sweden and 2005 (SWC2005) in Orlando, USA, and the celebration of the 50th anniversary of ISES in the same year, the International Solar Energy Society and the Chinese Solar Energy Society will hold the ISES Solar World Congress 2007 (SWC2007) in Beijing, China, from September 18 to 21, 2007.

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22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition
3-7 September 2007, FIERA MILANO / Rho in Milan, Italy.
Conf. website: http://www.photovoltaic-conference.com/

PROGRAMME

The five-day programme for the Conference will comprise:
* Plenary lectures focusing on the state-of-the-art and targets of PV
* Oral and poster presentations of specific research, development and
demonstration projects, PV applications, PV markets
* Exhibition of PV products and services
* EPIA PV Industry Forum
* Workshops and Fora on specific PV issues
* Scientific and industry tours and a social programme

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Solar Power 2007 conference
Sept 24-27, 2007 at Long Beach, California
http://www.solarpowerconference.com/

Solar Power Conference and Expo to Break Attendance Record in a Landmark Year for Solar Power / July 24 2007

The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) expect the 2007 Solar Power Conference and Expo in Long Beach, Calif. to shatter attendance records for a North American solar energy event, drawing an unprecedented 10,000 people.  Conference organizers plan an ambitious agenda to examine the latest trends, challenges and opportunities facing the industry.
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Round Rock, Texas, July 31, 2007
Source: UPI
http://www.upi.com/Energy/Briefing/2007/07/31/miss_ny_schools_win_solar_car_race/8341/

Teams from Mississippi and New York have won in the Texas-to-New York Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge. The Solar Car challenge required students’ solar cars to use only the sun for power.  The Newton County Solar Team from Decatur, Miss.; the Houston Solar Car Team from Houston, Miss.; and the Newburgh Free Academy team from Newburgh, N.Y., won their respective divisions. The nine-day, 2,020-mile race began July 16 at Dell’s headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, and finished in Newburgh, N.Y. Nine teams from six states took part in the race.
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By James W. Crawley, Jul 27, 2007
Source: scnow.com
http://www.scnow.com/midatlantic/scp/news.apx.-content-articles-FMN-2007-07-27-0022.html

Calling all inventors: Build a better power source for soldiers and the Pentagon will beat a path to your door. And, pay you a cool $1 million.  To lighten the heavy load of batteries carried by troops to power radios, night-vision goggles, satellite navigation units, laptops and other electronics, the military is offering prizes for building the best wearable power pack. Oh, and it has to supply the juice for four days and weigh less than 9 pounds.
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New Delhi 28 Jul, 2007
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Corporate_Announcement/

Moser Baer Photo Voltaic (MBPV), a Moser Baer subsidiary, has entered into an eight-year, $880-million agreement with Norway-based REC Group for sourcing multi-crystalline silicon wafers. Silicon wafers go into manufacturing wafer-based solar cells.  MBPV uses multiple technologies, including crystalline silicon, nano-technology and thin film, to make solar cells and modules. It has manufacturing facilities in an SEZ at Greater Noida. (more…)

Source: Associated Press/ July 24, 2007
http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070724/NEWS01/70724002/-1/DW

DOVER — Chemical maker DuPont Co. will lead a federally funded effort to develop and test prototype high-efficiency solar cells that could improve the lives of U.S. military troops, the company said Monday.  DuPont has joined with the University of Delaware to establish the Very High Efficiency Solar Cell Consortium, which initially will focus on developing affordable portable battery chargers based on ultrahigh efficiency solar cells. The announcement follows the university’s demonstration of a viable design for a solar cell with a potential efficiency increase of 30 percent. (more…)

Source: Printed Electronics World / 30 Jul 2007
http://www.idtechex.com/printedelectronicsworld/articles/when_will_organic_photovoltaics_be_viable_00000652.asp

The benefits of non-silicon photovoltaic materials are many and varied. Some are transparent, permitting the face of a wristwatch to generate power, the power source having zero footprints. Some, such as Dye Sensitised Solar Cells printed by G24i in the UK, generate electricity at narrow angles of incidence and even with polarised eg reflected light. DSSC designs can use light of all visible frequencies, not just sunlight. G24i’s initial target markets for its DSSC product include mobile phone chargers, particularly in the developing world. (more…)

Nanjing, China, July 12, 2007
Source; Unted Press International
http://www.upi.com/Energy/Briefing/2007/07/12/s

China Sunergy Co. announced it has received patent approval for its N-type cells from China’s State Intellectual Property Office.  China Sunergy manufactures solar cells from silicon wafers utilizing crystalline silicon solar cell technology based in Nanjing. The approval from the State Intellectual Property Office covers a period of 20 years. China Sunergy has also submitted a patent application to SIPO for P-type selective emitter cell technology and is awaiting the potential approval in 2009. (more…)

Edwin Cartlidge, PhysicsWorld.com /Jul 2, 2007
Feature Article
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/30345

Nanotechnology could transform solar cells from niche products to devices that provide a significant fraction of the world’s energy, as Edwin Cartlidge discusses.

The burning of skin on a hot summer’s day, the awesome power of a tornado or the existence of a simple blade of grass all testify to one thing: the huge amount of energy transmitted to us from the Sun. In a single hour the Sun delivers the same amount of energy as consumed by all of humanity in a year – about 5 × 1020 J – and in 36 hours releases as much energy as exists in the Earth’s estimated oil reserves. When you combine this with the fact that solar energy is essentially inexhaustible, available to everyone the world over and generates no greenhouse gases or other harmful pollutants, it seems hard to imagine why we do not make greater use of it. (more…)