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Greater Noida, India. This follows final business since June 2008 when it acquired California. The office houses purchas-
acceptance test certification of Moser the solar operations of sister-company LG ing, sales, sales support and R&D staff.
Baer Photovoltaic’s SunFab thin film line Chem. In October it announced plans to Canadian Solar has had an incorporated
supplied by Applied Materials Inc. The convert a dormant PDP (plasma display subsidiary in the US since early 2007 and
40-MW capacity line is the largest thin film panel) production line at its factory in is now increasing its footprint in anticipa-
solar line in India. This single junction Gumi, South Korea, with two solar cell tion of the US becoming a significant
SunFab line has demonstrated the highest production lines. www.lge.com market for solar products. Going forward,
production capacity to date for manufac- regional sales offices will be added. CSI’s
turing the world’s largest solar modules at Jenn Feng to start production of complete line of products will be offered in
7.2 feet (2.2 m) by 8.5 feet (2.6 m). cigs pV modules in June 2009 the US, including both of its regular and
www.moserbaer.com Jenn Feng Industrial, a Taiwan-based e-Module products, as well as custom and
maker of power equipment and lighting off-grid products. www.csisolar.com
eT solar signs agreement with products, has stepped into R&D of CIGS
german integrator use (copper-indium-gallium-selenide) thin-film cigs thin-film solar module
ET Solar Group has signed a 13 mega- photovoltaic (PV) modules and plans to produced in nankai university base
watts sales agreement with USE, a large kick off volume production in June 2009, A thin-film solar cell testing base in
German photovoltaic product integrator according to a Chinese-language Economic Tianjin’s Binhai District has produced 804-
and distributor. According to the signed Daily News (EDN) report. Jenn Feng will square-centimenter copper indium/gallium
agreement, ET Solar will deliver a total of complete its first CIGS thin-film PV mod- diselenice (CIGS) thin-film solar modules,
13MW of high-efficiency solar modules ule production line soon with an annual reports china.com.cn. The base was jointly
to USE between January and November capacity of 35MWp. It will then add more established by Nankai University professor
2009. www.etsolar.com line of equal capacity, up to 8-10 in total, Sun Yun, his study team and the Tianjin
in August 2009, according to EDN. Free Trade Zone Investment Company in
phoenix solar acquires scarlatti www.jennfeng.com June 2007. A variation of copper indium
Phoenix Solar Energy Investments AG, a selenide (CIS) solar cells, CIGS ranks
wholly owned subsidiary of Phoenix Solar phoenix solar ag extends first among all cells in terms of photovol-
AG, has acquired all the shares in Scarlatti agreement with Kgal taic conversion efficiency, and its cost is
Srl., a company headquartered in Eppan Phoenix Solar AG has today raised the vol- one-third that of crystalline silicon cells,
an der Weinstraße, Italy, with immediate ume of the framework agreement signed in said the report. Nankai University has
effect. Scarlatti holds the shares in four September 2007 with KG Allgemeine Leas- researched CIS solar cells for 19 years.
project companies under the condition ing GmbH & Co. (KGAL) by at least EUR
precedent of achieving a status where con- 150 million and extended it through the hoku Materials updates position on
struction can begin without delay. These year 2011. The parties to the contract have polysilicon plant and contracts
companies will develop a total of five agreed that the Phoenix Solar Group will Hoku Materials yesterday announced the
projects for the construction of photovol- develop large photovoltaic plants on behalf arrival of the first shipment of Siemens-
taic systems in Sicily with an overall peak of KGAL and build them in the capacity of process reactors, key equipment used
power output of around 27 megawatts. general contractor. The investment volume in the production of polysilicon, at the
www.phoenixsolar.de over the period from 2009 to 2011 is now company’s facility in Pocatello, Idaho.
worth a minimum of EUR 375 million. Hoku reported it had received six such
cTDc receives $36 million credit www.phoenixsolar.de polysilicon reactors at its project site, and
line from china construction Bank that the first two polysilicon reactors have
China Technology Development Group XsunX sales contracts grow to 19 already been assembled and installed on
Corporation, a provider of solar energy megawatts with a combined value the production floor. The reactors, which
products and solutions in China focusing of $47 million were manufactured in Germany by GEC/
on a-Si thin film technology, announced XsunX, Inc., a solar technology company MSA, are the first units to arrive in Poca-
that the Company’s wholly-owned engaged in the build-out of its multi-mega- tello out of a planned total order of 28.
subsidiary, China Merchants Zhangzhou watt thin film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar www.hokucorp.com
Development Zone Trenda Solar Energy manufacturing facilities in Oregon, an-
Ltd. (“Trenda Solar”), has received a com- nounces that it has entered into a two-year First solar to supply modules for
mitment of credit line up to US$36 (RMB supply contract for the sale of four mega- Masdar city solar power project
250) million from China Construction watts of ASI-120 TFPV solar modules to an First Solar, Inc. has been selected by Mas-
Bank. www.chinactdc.com Oregon based firm specializing in over 20 dar Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company to
years of commercial project development. supply 5 MW of its thin film solar modules
lg to sign $340M solar wafer deal The agreement represents approximately to be part of the largest grid-connected
with norway’s rec $10 million dollars in total contract value photovoltaic (PV) system in the Middle
South Korea’s LG Electronics signed a with an initial 2 megawatts slated for deliv- East. This system will supply power to
five-year deal to buy silicon wafers for solar ery in calendar 2009, and the remaining 2 Masdar City, the world’s most ambitious
panels from Norway’s REC Wafer. The megawatt balance for delivery in calendar sustainable development to date, with
contract is worth at least US $340 million. 2010. www.XsunX.com plans to be the world’s first carbon-neutral,
Supply will begin in limited quantities next zero waste, car-free city powered entirely by
year and increase over the contract period canadian solar opens us office renewable energy sources. www.firstsolar.com
from 2010 to 2014. LG Electronics has Canadian Solar Inc. opened a US head
been building its solar panel and module office and customer center in San Ramon,
32 – Global Solar Technology – March/April 2009 www.globalsolartechnology.com
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