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original power. JDSU claims additional benefits include a small footprint, improved temperature performance, less use of semiconductor materials, and lower cost per kW compared to other photovoltaic technologies.


In addition to its new CPV technology for land installations, JDSU has been providing solar power products to the satellite industry for several decades. JDSU also provides photovoltaic solutions for the digital monitoring of smart grid power plants.


Tellurium to find new applications in thermal energy


Vertically integrated refiner and producer of high purity tellurium, tellurium-based compounds and other metals, Apollo Solar has developed a new tellurium based material for use in thermal exchange technology at oil transportation stations.


Apollo Solar Energy has launched a project to utilise tellurium in the production of thermal energy.


The Company has formed a subsidiary in Anhui province to develop a tellurium based thermal energy system at Shengli Oil Field, a major oil field in China.


The Shengli Oil Field, owned by Sinopec is the second-largest oil field in The People’s Republic of China, with daily production of approximately 650,000 barrels. The field contains more than one hundred transportation stations, which are powered, in part, through thermal exchange systems.


Apollo’s R&D team, in collaboration with Chinese thermal control experts, has developed a new tellurium based material that is ideal for use in thermal exchange technology at oil transportation stations. The firm believes that the new thermal exchange systems, combined with a small solar power station that will be used in each station, will reduce total annual energy costs at the Shengli Oil Field by approximately 40%. The first demonstration station will be started in July of 2011 and the entire project is expected to be completed within 3 years.


Jingong Pan, CEO of the Company, commented, “Included in our strategy for Apollo’s growth is to increase revenue and profit margins of the Company by developing new materials and entering new markets. The use of our materials and technology to reduce energy costs at the thousands of oil transportation stations in major oil fields in China represents an untapped market that provides us the opportunity to substantially increase revenue.”


DOE to loan nearly $4.5 billion for First Solar CdTe PV solar power plants


The three projects based on cadmium telluride technology are expected to create 1,400 jobs and generate approximately 1330 MWs of installed solar power in California.


U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced


offers of conditional commitments for loan guarantees, of approximately $4.5 billion, to support three alternating current CdTe thin film photovoltaic (PV) solar generation facilities.


The Department is offering a conditional commitment for a $680 million loan guarantee to support the Antelope Valley Solar Ranch 1 project, conditional commitments for partial loan guarantees of $1.88 billion in loans to support the Desert Sunlight project, and conditional commitments for partial loan guarantees of $1.93 billion in loans to support the Topaz Solar project.


First Solar is sponsoring all three projects and will provide Cd-Te thin film solar PV modules for the projects from a new manufacturing plant that has begun construction in Mesa, Arizona, as well as from its recently expanded manufacturing plant in Perrysburg, Ohio, which serves as its primary hub for engineering, research and development. The company expects that the projects will create a combined 1,400 jobs in California during peak construction.


“These projects will bring immediate jobs to California in addition to hundreds more across the supply chain,” said Chu. “Together the projects will power hundreds of thousands of homes with


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