Solar shootout; food packaging to PV panels; China's PV push; IMEC's "noble" efforts

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May 7, 2009

Solar shootout; food packaging to PV panels; China's PV push; IMEC's "noble" efforts Welcome to PV Times, the authoritative weekly e-newsletter covering the solar photovoltaics manufacturing industry, brought to you by the editors of PV World, Solid State Technology, and Renewable Energy World. FEATURES Solar shootout in the San Joaquin Valley Side-by-side crystalline and thin-film photovoltaic installations at a water treatment plant in California's Central Valley should provide answers about which provides the best energy production and cost benefit performance over varying climatic conditions within a year. Net metering: The civil rights movement for solar energy? The California State Legislature has just begun consideration of a little-noticed piece of legislation that figures prominently in the future of solar power in America: a net-metering cap that if raised could unshackle the solar industry and distributed power generation. Call for papers: Photovoltaics World Expo 2010 Co-located with Renewable Energy World Conference Expo, the Photovoltaics World Expo 2010 will address solar cell design and manufacture, including cells made of various types of silicon and alternative materials (e.g., CdTe and CIGS); module manufacturing/assembly/testing and balance of system components; and concentrated PV technology. Follow the link for details on how to develop and submit an abstract. INDUSTRY NEWS From food packaging to solar panels Many companies are looking to break into the solar area, widely seen as a high-growth area for industries such as semiconductors and electronics. One Japanese firm has arrived at the market from a different direction. SEE ALSO: Paper: Japanese electronics firms riding mega solar boom Germany's Q-Cells sells REC stake, to pay down credit Q-Cells has sold its 17% stake (85M shares) in silicon supplier REC in order to pay down some credit -- and effectively silencing rumors of a possible merger with its No.2 distributor. SEE ALSO: - Israeli PV cell startup raises $3M, eyes factory - Report: Italy's EEMS, ESPE plan PV venture Report: China eyes 10x higher goals for installed PV capacity China authorities are confident their new renewable energy measures will boost solar PV installed capacity to 10,000MW and maybe even 20,000MW by 2020 -- up to tenfold more solar capacity than originally predicted. SEE ALSO: Analysis: Global & China semiconductor industry report, 2008-2009 Deloitte: Time to invest in US solar manufacturing? Analysts and consultants from Deloitte debate whether the US really will become a leader in solar power and manufacturing, and why now is the time to place your bet. SEE ALSO: German firm bucks faltering economy, bets big on US solar power TECHNOLOGY NEWS IMEC's "noble" efforts to integrate nanophotonics with high-speed CMOS IMEC researcher Pol Van Dorpe explains the physics and structure behind a new method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects, which has promise in applications from biosensing to thin-film solar cells. Skyline Solar de-stealths with "high-gain solar" tech, financing, demo Skyline Solar has decloaked with a "high-gain solar" technology it says delivers 10x more energy than silicon systems but "at the cost of thin-film;" it also is building its first demo plant in San Jose and entered pilot manufacturing, and received nearly $28M in financing. SEE ALSO: Idemitsu eyes foreign markets for solar cell electrode material Oerlikon Solar's Micromorph tech IEC certified by TUV Rheinland Oerlikon Solar says its Micromorph thin-film silicon solar PV modules have passed all required performance and safety tests to receive TUV Rheinland's IEC certification SEE ALSO: - Suntech joins PV module recycling group - Solyndra, SunConnex ink $189M PV systems deal Evergreen Solar farms out manufacturing to China's Jiawei Solar Jiawei Solar will manufacture Evergreen Solar's string ribbon wafers into solar cells and panels<; Evergreen also is building a $40-$50M site in Wuhan, starting at 100MW and ultimately expanding to 500MW. Home Articles Contact Us Events Advertise Resource Guide

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