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Industry News— Dyesol opens new Daystar expanding thin-film fab
continued from page 5 manufacturing facilities CIGS maker DayStar Technologies is
A new manufacturing facility in Australia expanding its thin-film production line,
production of its patent-protected thin film
will enable Dyesol to fast track its commer- with production on the new line expected
solar material, Power Plastic. Located in
cialisation strategy to take full advantage of to begin in early 2009 and reach full
New Bedford, Massachusetts, the 250,000
the solar photovoltaic market forecast to be capacity, 25MW, by Q3’09. According to
square foot building was previously the
worth $US 30 billion in 2008. In addition CleanTech, the company is exploring ways
location for Polaroid Corporation’s most
to increasing its manufacturing capacity in to pay for a further expansion, from 80 to
advanced printing technologies.
Queanbeyan, Dyesol has also established a 100MW, in its current building by 2011.
www.konarka.com
facility in North Wales, United Kingdom.
www.daystartech.com
These facilities will enable Dyesol to effec-
BasF podcast:
tively service its collaboration partners and solarTac launches to accelerate
organic photovoltaics—Flexible
solar technology development
and Transparent solar cells
subsidiary companies operating in UK,
Italy, Switzerland, Korea, and Singapore. Six public and private sector entities have
In organic photovoltaics, dyes are used
www.dyesol.com joined forces and signed an agreement to
that are able to convert light into electrical
develop one of the world’s largest solar
energy. Due to the extremely thin photo-
Taiwan solar cell maker test and evaluation facilities. Leveraging
voltaic layer, flexible or even transparent
Delsolar expanding the exceptional solar resources already in
organic solar cells can be produced. For
A new factory in northern Taiwan is ex- existence in Colorado, the development
instance, windows could be coated with
pected to increase production capacity for site, Solar Technology Acceleration Center
organic solar cells and produce electricity.
solar cell maker DelSolar from its existing (SolarTAC), will be located in Aurora,
Through BASF’s podcast, listeners learn
level of 120MWp to 840MWp by 2012. Colo. The entities involved in SolarTAC
how organic photovoltaics help to produce
include: Abengoa Solar, the City of
Aurora, the Colorado Renewable Energy
Collaboratory, Midwest Research Institute
(MRI), SunEdison and Xcel Energy.
www.solartac.org
standard solar raises us $8.5 m to
fund expansion
Standard Solar Inc.a Mid-Atlantic region
turnkey provider of solar energy systems,
has raised $8.5 million to fund geographic
expansion and scale up the company’s abil-
ity to meet growing demand in its targeted
residential and commercial markets. This
funding also enhances the financial, op-
erational and customer service capabilities
needed to support this expansion.
www.standardsolar.com
solyndra’s thin-film solar cells
bring in us $1.2 billion in contracts
Solyndra’s new solar photovoltaic system
for the commercial rooftop market is de-
signed to generate significantly more solar
The groundbreaking ceremony for the new
electricity on an annual basis from typical
solar cells with completely new qualities.
factory was held in October; construction
low-slope commercial rooftops with lower
corporate.basf.com/en/podcast/innovation.xml
is expected to be completed by next Octo-
installation costs than conventional flat
ber.
www.delsolarpv.com
panel PV technologies. Solyndra received
ecD expands capacity
more than US $1.2 billion in multi-year
Energy Conversion Devices Inc., manufac-
asola to set up solar factory in contracts across Europe and the United
turer of thin-film flexible solar laminate
morocco States for this product.
www.solyndra.com
products, are in the final stages of site
Isseroda, Germany-based Asola Advanced
selection for a new 120 MW solar-cell
and Automotive Solar Systems signed an prism solar Technologies receives
manufacturing facility. They are also ac-
agreement to establish a joint venture in
manufacturing grant
celerating the growth of their nameplate ca-
Morocco to build a solar module manufac-
Prism Solar Technologies, Inc. (PST) was
pacity to 420 MWs in fiscal year 2010 and
turing facility in the country. Asola is team-
awarded a $1,000,000 grant from The
to 720 MWs in fiscal 2011. The company
ing up with Morocco’s Majdaline Holding
Solar Energy Consortium (TSEC) as part
reiterated its commitment to have 1 GW
for the plant, which is expected to have an
of its financing to begin manufacturing of
of nameplate capability in place by fiscal
initial capacity of 30 megawatts of solar
its patented holographic planar concentra-
2012.
www.ovonic.com
module per year.
www.asola-power.com
tor technology in New York State. This
funding will allow PST to accelerate its
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