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centrotherm photovoltaics advsied that it had begun industrial-scale production of its high-efficiency centaurus solar cell for customers in China and Europe. Over 50MW of the centaurus technoloy are in ramp-up mass production with the company noting that it has received interest from various of its existing customers.
BISOL’s polycrystalline and monocrystalline PV modules have been officially accredited by the Australian Clean Energy Council to meet with the requirements to be sold in Australia. The modules comply with the Australian Standard AS5033.
Chinese companies GCL-Poly Energy, Winsun New Energy and Shunfeng Photovoltaic have signed a Letter of Intent (LiT). Under the strategic agreement, the companies have announced the intent to jointly construct PV plants in Europe as well as other countries.
In anticipation of others to follow suit, Taiwan-based Motech Industries will be offering a ‘Solar Cell Certificate of Origin,’ to customers wanting to avoid the newly imposed import tariffs on Chinese solar cells and modules. Motech makes c-Si solar cells in Taiwan, which are excluded from the import duties as well as having a module assembly plant in Newark, Delaware.
The Intersolar Awards 2012 will be presented on June 13 at Intersolar Europe in Munich. In its fifth year, entries from Intersolar China, North America and India have been invited to enter for the first time. The ceremony will be held at 4.30pm at the Intersolar Europe Innovations Exchange in hall B3, booth B3.450.
Expecting the PV equipment market to continue to slow this year, GT Advanced Technologies advised that it would be broadening its product lines with a new furnace that makes silicon carbide crystals. The company is aiming to diversify its product line in the midst of what it calls a global downshift in demand for its systems that make polysilicon and PV wafers. As reported by Bloomberg, CEO of GT Advanced, Tom Gutierrez, is looking its R&D this year by 50% to over US$65 million with sales expected to grow 6% to between US$925 million and US$975 million.
GT Advanced Technologies will supply UTECH Solar with US$8 million worth of silicon growth technology and casting furnaces, the company has announced. GT received an order from UTECH Solar for its DSS450 MonoCast silicon growth technology and another one for its DSS450HP casting furnaces. UTECH will commence the production of MonoCast wafers as well as increase production with additional DSS450HP multicrystalline casting furnaces to meet the increasing demand.
Suntech’s Pluto solar cell technology has won the Cooperative Research Centres Association’s Collaborative Innovation Award in Adelaide, Australia, it has been announced. The Pluto technology was developed by Professor Stuart Wenham and Professor Martin Green at the APC PV centre of excellence at the University Of New South Wales (UNSW) in collaboration with Suntech and funded by the Australian Solar Institute.
Axuntek Solar Energy is using DuPont PV5400 series ionomer encapsulant in its IEC-certified CIGS thin-film modules, the company has announced.
The solar modules are frameless and the first to adopt DuPont PV5400 into CIGS technology. The modules aid to reduce shipping costs because they permit a higher density in shipping, therefore lower costs. Further, the modules are stronger due to DuPont’s encapsulant. The combination of ionomer and glass allows for the utilization of the frameless modules in building-integrated applications.
Korean cell manufacturer Shinsung Solar Energy has achieved a 20.03% efficiency rate for its crystalline solar cell by using next-generation Laser Doped Selective Emitter (LDSE) technology, the company has announced. The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) verified the rate of the cell that uses a six-inch p-type Cz wafer.
