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“The combination of cost reduction and high margin EnerPlex products along with other specialty market applications will enable Ascent to transition to its next stage as a high-growth company. The alliance with Suqian will provide a means for Ascent to build positive cash flow from numerous sources,” Kumar continues.
Ascent Solar to debut EnerPlex series at CES 2014
These products, many of which are integrated with Ascent’s CIGS technology, provide consumers with the ability to integrate solar into their everyday lives
Ascent Solar Technologies will debut new additions to the EnerPlex product lineup, including the Surfr battery and solar case for the iPhone 5 and 5s as well as additional solar products and charging accessories, at CES 2014 in Las Vegas.
powerful solar technology can be integrated into a wide variety of innovative consumer and specialty outdoor applications; we look forward to exploring new horizons and uses for Ascent’s solar technology.”
A meeting with the EnerPlex team to review products or discuss opportunities may be arranged by contacting Brad Brochocki at 720-872-5191 or bbrochocki@
ascentsolar.com.
GS Hong Kong Solar opens CIGS plant in China
The new manufacturing facility has a phase one, full- production capacity of 40 MW per year
GS Hong Kong Solar, a maker of thin-film CIGS solar cells, has officially opened its new 150,000 square foot manufacturing plant.
The plant has a phase one, full-production capacity of 40 megawatts (MW) per year. GS Solar notes that it is simultaneously breaking ground on a 750 KW CIGS solar fields (one of the world’s largest), and is commissioning a 35 MW plant in China to open in autumn 2014.
The Surfr for iPhone 5 lineup
The EnerPlex family of consumer products will be exhibited in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Centre at Booth #35474.
Ascent Solar’s Manager of Brand Development, Justin Jacobs says, “Ascent looks forward to exhibiting the exciting new and upcoming additions to the EnerPlex product line and giving distribution partners, as well as the media, an opportunity to get a close look at the forthcoming products which will be available in early 2014.”
The EnerPlex brand encompasses portable charging solutions for a wide range of consumers, from those who desire to be outdoors and truly off-the-grid, to those who spend their time in urban environments and just need that extra charge to keep powered up throughout the day. Uniquely integrated with Ascent’s thin-film solar technology, EnerPlex’s solar integrated charging products are lighter, more powerful and more rugged than any other available.
Jacobs also adds, “Our exhibit at CES also includes an open invitation for product designers to come learn and discuss about how our unique, lightweight, flexible and
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GS Hong Kong Solar has expanded from its former 40,000 square foot. factory to the new 100,000 square foot facility and is beginning construction of its 34,000 square foot factory in Berlin, Germany.
The company says that the addition of the two new facilities will increase its annual capacity from 5 MW to 70 MW. GS Solar plans an additional 100 MW into production at the end of 2009, bringing its total annual capacity to 175 MW.
Naseer Sayed, Managing Director, comments, “Production from this facility will help satisfy the strong demand for solar product across the world, while providing local residents already a government city, with jobs in a rapidly-growing, high-tech industry. The addition Global Solar plant will help meet the 2015 goal of the government Initiative of achieving solar electricity cost competitiveness with grid electricity, especially through the use of flexible CIGS thin-film technologies in building- integrated applications.”
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