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development of its PV module designs at projects and 130 megawatts related to ser-
www.xerocoat.com
one of its partners’ Kingston NY facility vices. The projects are based on thin-film
while completing negotiations on its own and wafer-based technologies. Despatch industries expands global
New York facility manufacturing location.
www.mw-zander.com photovoltaic market share
www.thesolarec.org,
www.prismsolar.com Despatch Industries, a process technol-
rayTracker gc to support 2 mW ogy provider for the solar industry, has
yingli to supply 9 mW pV modules of solar energy achieved another sales milestone in 2008.
for en-neo in 2009 Energy Innovations Inc., a manufacturer By the beginning of the third quarter of
Yingli Green Energy Holding Co., Ltd., of commercial solar products, announced 2008, Despatch has received more than
a vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) that the company’s RayTracker GC fifty percent more orders for their flagship
product manufacturer in China, will product has been installed by several new firing furnace than they received in all of
supply nine MW PV modules to En-Neo customers and will be included in installa- 2007. In addition to the firing furnace,
Neue Energien GmbH in 2009, accord- tions representing more than 2 megawatts Despatch continues to see significant
ing to a recent bilateral supplementary (MW) of solar energy starting this month. growth through the introduction of new
agreement. Yingli is expected to deliver RayTracker GC is a single-axis solar tracker products to the industry, such as the new
the PV modules from February 2009 to for ground-mount and carport-mount ap- In-line Rapid Thermal Shock (IL-RTS) tool
April 2009. Earlier this year, the two par- plications.
www.raytracker.com
ties inked a sale contract of 9.19 MW PV
modules, leaving En-Neo an option to buy hydro boosts investment in
another nine MW PV modules from Yingli ascent solar
in 2009.
www.yinglisolar.com Hydro recently invested USD 15 million
in the US solar energy company Ascent
green energy Technology produces Solar. The purchase took place as Hydro
thin-film solar modules exercised a call option issue, increasing
Taiwan solar wafer maker Green Energy the company’s ownership share from 26.5
Technology (GET) extended its production to 35 per cent. Hydro is the largest owner
to a-Si thin-film solar modules and show- in Ascent and has subscribed to capital and a VOC Oxidizer package.
cased an 8.5G 2.6 x 2.2 m thin-film solar increases in Ascent on two previous occa-
www.despatch.com
module and two small-size see-through sions. Including the latest share purchase,
thin-film solar modules at the 2008 Taiwan Hydro has invested a total of US $63 mil- rutronik taps into
International Photovoltaic Forum and lion in Ascent Solar.
www.hydro.com, growing solar market
Exhibition. Green Energy is the first maker
www.ascentsolar.com In the financial year 2007, solar-direct
in Taiwan to produce large thin-film solar GmbH and solar-protect GmbH registered
modules using an 8.5G production line. princeton power systems wins a 43 percent growth in sales, which reached
Doe contract 96 m euro. Despite the biggest order book
applied science researcher wins Princeton Power Systems (PPS) was award- in the company’s history, the company
thin-film award ed a contract from the U.S. Department of was forced to file for insolvency because of
César Clavero, a postdoctoral research Energy (DOE) to develop advanced power delivery bottlenecks and project delays. On
associate in the Department of Applied conversion technologies under the Solar 1st September 2008, European distribu-
Science, has been named the recipient of Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) tor Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente
the 2008 Outstanding Young Researcher program. This research and development GmbH fully encompassed solar-direct
Award from the American Vacuum Soci- grant will enable a complete design for a GmbH and solar-protect GmbH into its
ety. Clavero’s award comes from the Thin 100-kW demand response inverter based existing corporate structure. They are now
Film Division of the society, in recognition on PPS’ proprietary inverter technology. operating under the name of Rusol GmbH
of his work on magneto-plasmonic materi- The design will be optimized for low-cost, & Co KG as a 100 per cent owned subsid-
als with Ale Lukaszew, VMEC Associate highquality manufacture, and will integrate iary of Rutronik
www.rusol.com
Professor in Physics and Applied Science. control capabilities including dynamic en-
The award will be presented at the AVS ergy storage and demand response through cpV solar simulator moves indoors
international meeting to be held Oct. 19- load control.
www.princetonpower.com Compoundsemiconductor.net reports
24 in Boston. that the first simulator for concentrator
Xerocoat receives patent grants photovoltaics, which predominantly use
m+W Zander hits 1 gW solar pV for silica films compound semiconductor cells, aims to
engineering milestone XeroCoat Inc.a venture-backed Silicon Val-
speed up module testing. Researchers in
M+W Zander reports that in 2007 the ley company in the solar energy industry,
Spain have published details of what they
company booked a worldwide order has received notice of issuance of three
say is the first solar simulator for concen-
backlog of photovoltaic projects with more separate patents for its method of produc-
trator photovoltaic systems (CPVs). The
than one gigawatt annual capacity (peak). tion and morphology control of silica
simulator characterises CPV modules in-
This corresponds to a three-fold increase and silica-like films. Initial patent grants
doors as they come off the production line
compared with 2006 (410 megawatts). have been received from Singapore and
and is now commercially available through
Out of the projects commissioned in the Australia. Additional patent grants from
Spanish company Advanced Soldering.
year 2007, around half–600 megawatts– the United States, Europe, Japan, China,
were combined design and construction Canada, India, Mexico, and New Zealand cool earth solar building prototype
projects, 480 megawatts were pure design are anticipated over the next 18 months. solar plant
38 – Global Solar Technology – November/December 2008
www.globalsolartechnology.com
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