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Solar Frontier to install its largest CIS facility in North America for juwi
The solar innovator says that achieving this milestone project immediately after opening its gigawatt-scale factory in Japan highlights the commercial attraction of its CIS modules.
Juwi Solar Inc. (JSI) has chosen Solar Frontier to supply 3.8 MW of solar modules for a project to be operated by a regulated utility in the Northeast United States.
When the project is completed by the end of 2011, it will be the largest Solar Frontier installation to date in North America, and one of the largest solar projects in the Northeast. It is the latest competitive win in Solar Frontier’s global strategy to work with nationally and globally leading companies.
panels.”
“JSI provides the most competitive utility-scale solar developments for our clients,” said Michael Martin, managing director at JSI, “and Solar Frontier’s CIS technology will allow us to deliver a low cost of energy and long-term, reliable energy production for this project and its long-term owner.”
Amonix III-V solar plant receives $17.9 million in funding
The manufacturing facility for gallium arsenide based multi-junction photovoltaic systems is being financed by a combination of $5 million in Recovery Act tax credits and $12 million in private funding.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu visited the new Amonix production facility last week to see first-hand how the Obama Administration’s renewable energy policies are turning into economic activity and energy independence.
Chu toured the North Las Vegas facility where Amonix produces concentrated photovoltaic CPV solar power systems for utility-scale power plants, such as the 2 MW power plant in Tucson, Arizona, that showcases one of the world’s most efficient solar technologies. After the tour, Chu led a round table discussion with solar industry business leaders at the Amonix facility.
Solar Frontier: Kunitomi Plant (Miyazaki Plant 3)
The solar panels will be produced at Solar Frontier’s new gigawatt-scale Kunitomi plant in Miyazaki, Japan, using the firm’s proprietary CIS technology Solar Frontier says the Kunitomi factory is unparalleled for its combination of advanced automation, scale, and low-energy, end-to-end processing.
“Achieving this milestone project immediately after opening our gigawatt-scale factory in Japan highlights the commercial attraction of our CIS modules,” said Greg Ashley, COO of Solar Frontier Americas. “Our work with JSI is a strong indicator of the growing confidence that global markets have in Solar Frontier’s economical and ecological solar
Chu was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 and former director of the DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where he led the lab in pursuit of alternative and renewable energy technologies.
“Secretary Chu has a longstanding interest in renewable energy sources. It’s an honour to have him visit Amonix to take a closer look at our state- of-the-art manufacturing facility,” said Amonix CEO Brian Robertson. “His visit emphasises the reality that utility-scale solar energy is an economically viable reality.”
Renewable energy development is a cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s long-term economic
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