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Soltecture is forging ahead with development of production machinery and increasing the capacity of its fully-automated manufacturing facility for the new CIGSe modules.
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PKU makes China’s first CIGS solar integrated power circuit
In the 6th Asia Solar Photovoltaic Industry Exhibition, the first copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar integrated power circuit of China was exhibited in Shanghai on May 5.
Technically supported by Peking University (PKU), Henan Yanyuan Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd developed the China’s first CIGS solar integrated power circuit. This new product proves to be a new innovation in Chinese Solar Photonics Industry. With the booming solar industry nowadays, people are familiar with solar collectors and solar cells. However, what they don’t quite know is the combination of these two elements–the solar integrated power circuit, a new type of CIGS solar cell’s application. It provides a new approach to promote its scale production.
Gan Zizhao, professor of the PKU School of Physics and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), talked about the invention during an interview. “The application of CIGS solar cell is going to be the development trend in the solar industry. It reduces pollution and costs compared with the old material, which is mainly silicon. Moreover, it’s cheaper and more efficient,” said Professor Gan.
The PKU research team had independent intellectual property of this technology, added Professor Gan. Compared with other few ountries like US and Germany, they are still in an intermediate level, having a long way to reduce the gap in craftsmanship. However, there are large potential markets for this innovation in China.
Wolfgang Palz, chairman of the World Council 164
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for Renewable Energy (WCRE), expressed his compliments for China’s remarkable achievements in energy conservation and pollution reduction, especially efforts made in developing new energy.
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SDG&E signs contracts with Soitec for 125 megawatts of solar power
Project agreements follow April signing of three solar power generation contracts in the San Diego area.
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and subsidiaries of Soitec Solar Development, LLC, a renewable energy company managed by Soitec (Euronext Paris), today announced the signing of two additional 25-year contracts for a total of 125 megawatts (MW) of solar energy to be generated in the utility’s service territory. The energy will be produced using Soitec’s Concentrix concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) technology with solar modules manufactured in a new Soitec factory to be built in the San Diego area.
These new agreements are separate from the three San Diego contracts the two companies signed in April for 30 MW of CPV-generated solar power. Combined, the five contracts SDG&E recently signed with Soitec represent five separate projects capable of generating a combined total of 155 megawatts of clean, renewable solar power, or enough energy to supply more than 60,000 homes. Both of the new proposed projects will be located in San Diego County and will be situated near SDG&E electric substations.
“Our projects with Soitec will bring local jobs to the community and will help us to meet our renewable energy goals,” said James P. Avery, SDG&E’s senior vice president of power supply. “We are very confident in our choice of technology and in Soitec’s plans for a solar panel manufacturing facility in the San Diego region.”
The announcement confirms the attractiveness of Soitec’s renewable energy technology – which
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