Solar Cells Info

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, The Guardian
Oslo, Reuters November 28 2007
Source
http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7108735

Southern California is sunny, the French Riviera is sunny, but NASA says the middle of the Pacific Ocean and the Sahara Desert in Niger are the sunniest — and the information could be worth money.  America’s space exploration agency has located the world’s sunniest spots by studying maps compiled by U.S. and European satellites. (more…)

Mobile solar charger firm announces first deal
James Murray, BusinessGreen, 22 Nov 2007
Source: BusinessGreen.com
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2204120/mobile-solar-charger-firm

UK solar cell manufacturer G24 Innovations (G24i) has today announced the first order for its lightweight solar cells designed for recharging mobile phones.  The chargers, which use flexible and lightweight Dye Sensitised Thin Film (DST) solar cells, will be deployed by Kenya-based Master IT Ltd to provide mobile communications to communities without ready access to mains power.
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Nuying Huang, Taipei; Esther Lam
Source:  DIGITIMES, 23 November 2007
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20071123PD209.html

Oerlikon is making further progress in its micromorph tandem technology and expects over half of the orders it receives in 2008 will be for solar cell production equipment supporting the technology, which will offer a power conversion rate of 10%, according to the company.
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Gina Roos , Electronics Supply & Manufacturing
Hong Kong, Nov 23, 2007
Source: EE Times: Semi News
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204202101

A new report from Global Sources says nearly 90 percent of solar panel manufacturers in Greater China plan to lower or keep prices stable, despite higher polysilicon prices, to win market share.  The “China Sourcing Report: Solar Panels” shows 88 percent of suppliers plan to decrease or keep prices stable, while only 12 percent plan to increase prices, although the polysilicon shortage is expected to continue until 2009. (more…)

By Yang Chuen Jen / Nov 17, 2007
Translated by Angela Hong
Source: Taipei Times
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/11/17/2003388263

In response to growing international calls for renewable energy, Council for Economic Planning and Development Minister Ho Mei-yueh  has proposed that farmers install solar panels in their fields. Perhaps a more viable strategy is to replace sheet metal roofs with solar panels.  In 1999, Barcelona passed a regulation decreeing that all new buildings and modifications on existing buildings supply 60 percent of their hot water through solar energy. After Barcelona implemented this scheme the following August, Catalonia and other regions followed suit. By 2005, it had become the only piece of legislation that applied to the entire country.
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Source: Ad-hoc-News.de / 15 nov. 2007
http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/CorporateNews/en/14189216/
The-China-Solar-Cell-Industry-Report-2006-2007-Is-Available

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c74234) has announced the addition of ?China Solar Cell Industry Report, 2006-2007? to their offering.  As the inexhaustible renewable energy as well as the clean energy, solar energy does not cause any environmental pollution. Among various effective applications of solar energy, the photoelectric utilization has been the most booming and vigorous research field in the past years, which enjoys enormous industrialization prospect.
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By Eva Kuehnen
Frankfurt, Nov 14, 2007
Source: Reuters UK
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL146013020071114

German solar cell maker Q-Cells raised its sales outlook for 2008 and 2009 and reported better-than-expected third-quarter results, standing out from its renewable energy sector peers on Wednesday.  Q-Cells shares surged 9.2 percent to 94.78 euros by 1144 GMT, leading gainers in Germany’s technology index (.TECDAX: Quote, Profile, Research), which was up 2.1 percent.
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November 14, 2007
Source: FuturePundit.com
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/004791.html

A Japanese spherical solar cell design promises a big photovoltaic power price drop.  A company in Japan has developed a novel way of making solar cells that cuts production costs by as much as 50 percent. The photovoltaic (PV) cells are made up of arrays of thousands of tiny silicon spheres surrounded by hexagonal reflectors.
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November 14, 2007
Source: SolidstateTechnology
http://sst.pennnet.com/display_article/312149/5/
ARTCL/none/none/1/Report:-Solar-cell-firms-gunning-for-Japanese-marketshare/

Major overseas solar cell players including China’s Suntech and Germany’s Q-Cells are trying to establish footholds in Japan to challenge the “oligopoly” enjoyed by incumbent Sharp Corp., notes the Nikkei daily.  Following its acquisition of Tokyo-based solar cell maker MSK Corp., Suntech Power Holdings, the world’s No.4 solar cell maker, aims to begin production and sales in Japan as early as next spring out of a factory in Saku, Nagano Prefecture, using solar cells imported from China, the paper reports. Sales goals are the equivalent of 20MW/year, leveraging MSK’s contacts within the home construction sector.
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By Michael Schirber, Special to LiveScience. 01 November 2007
Source: LifeScience.com
http://www.livescience.com/technology/071101-organic-solar.html

A new type of solar cell has recently gained attention as a possible cost-effective way to turn sunlight into electricity. Made from organic materials, the cells are cheaper and more flexible than currently used silicon-based solar cells. But new information suggests organic solar cells may not work as well as advertised. “There is a lot of press about breakthroughs that are basically unsubstantiated,” said Keith Emery of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo.
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