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Timminco to supply Q-Cells in major solar-grade silicon deal
27 March 2008 | Materials
Becancour Silicon, Inc. (BSI), a division of Timminco, has entered into an agreement to supply solar-grade silicon to Q-Cells AG. Q-Cells will receive 410 metric tons in 2008 and 3,000 metric tons in 2009 at fixed prices.
Read more >>Intertek expands PV module and inverter testing
27 March 2008 | PV Modules
Intertek is expanding its global PV testing capabilities with the construction of state-of-the-art PV module testing facilities in California, USA and Shanghai, China as well as adding a new photovoltaic module testing chamber in its Cortland, NY facility.
Read more >>Hydro ups stake in Ascent Solar to 34.8 percent
27 March 2008 | Thin Film
Hydro has invested approximately $28.5 million in Ascent Solar, taking Hydro’s share ownership from 22 to 34.8 percent. Hydro first invested in Ascent Solar in March, 2007 and has now invested close to $50 million in the company.
Read more >>Boeing-Spectrolab to supply HCPV producer with solar cells in five-year contract
26 March 2008 | Cell Processing | Comments (1)
OPEL International has secured a supply of high efficiency triple junction solar cells from Spectrolab, a Boeing Company, to help it fulfill future expected orders over a five-year period. 10MW of triple junction solar cells are to be delivered to OPEL in 2008.
Read more >>AES and Riverstone to invest $1 billion in utility-scale solar projects
26 March 2008 | Market Watch
A new joint venture company AES Solar has been formed to develop, own and operate utility-scale solar projects for partners The AES Corporation and Riverstone Holdings LLC, with an investment of $1 billion over five years.
Read more >>NREL boosts CIGS thin-film solar cell efficiency to record 19.9 percent
25 March 2008 | Power Generation | Comments (1)
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has claimed a new world record for copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cell conversion efficiency of 19.9 percent. In 1994, NREL researchers had touted CIGS cell efficiencies of only 11 percent. The conversion efficiency for CIGS is now close to that of multicrystalline silicon-based solar cells, according to NREL.
Read more >>Suntech secures $631 million polysilicon supply deal with DC Chemical
24 March 2008 | Materials
Suntech Power Holdings has signed an eight-year (2009 to 2016) polysilicon supply agreement with DC Chemical Co. Ltd valued at approximately $631 million for the term of the supply contract.
Read more >>Odersun starts construction of second ‘reel-to-reel’ CIS PV plant
24 March 2008 | Fab and Facilities
Odersun AG has broken ground on its second flexible substrate Copper-Indium-diSulphide on copper tape (CISCut) manufacturing plant in Fürstenwalde, Germany.
Read more >>Timminco to boost metallurgical grade solar silicon production to 14,400 metric tons
21 March 2008 | Materials
Canada-based metals feedstock producer Timminco is set to boost metallurgical grade solar silicon production to 14,400 metric tons annually after its successful ramp of the first of three 1,200 metric ton lines at its recently completed plant in Becancour, Quebec.
DC Chemical places $200 million follow-on order for polysilicon reactors with GT Solar
20 March 2008 | Materials
GT Solar has won a follow-on contract valued at approximately $200 million, which is the company’s largest ever single order received, to supply DC Chemical with more polysilicon reactors as part of DC Chemical’s facility expansion in Gunsan, South Korea.
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