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Solar inverter manufacturer REFUsol has obtained safety certificates to distribute inverters from its sister company, Prettl Electronics, at its plant in Greenville County, South Carolina.
Yingli Green Energy has furthered its reach across Asia with its establishment of a regional headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. In conjunction with this new location, the company has also set up a new wholly owned subsidiary in the form of Yingli Japan, or more formally, Yingli Green Energy Japan Corporation, Ltd. The news is a move on the part of the vertically integrated manufacturer to further its business development in Japan.
Chile’s first solar PV laboratory has been inaugurated this week in Santiago, Chile, giving developers an additional reason to keep a close eye on the Chilean market. With an investment of US$300,000, Eosol New Energy opened the facility at the Adolfo Ibáñez University at a ceremony attended by the minster of energy Jorge Bunster, the president of the IAU Andrés Benítez, dean of the faculty of engineering and science Alejandro Jadresic, the president of Eosol Bruno Bernal, academics and members of the solar industry.
The German Technical Control Board, TÜV Süd Germany, has awarded Nanosolar’s Luckenwalde panel assembly plant the ISO 9001:2008 certificate.
According to a report from CBC News, Siliken Renewable Energies has let go of 40 people from its Windsor, Ontario solar panel manufacturing plant. The dismissal is equivalent to one shift at the plant and has Paco Caudet, production manager at Siliken, blaming the terminations on government regulations and a lack of market.
Considered to be one of the first major ruling for the trade case filed against Chinese trade practices by SolarWorld last year, the US Department of Labour has granted all manufacturing employees that were laid off from SolarWorld Industries’ Camarillo, California plant as being eligible for federal trade-adjustment assistance, including grants for education that will lead to re-educating them for new work.
Brazil’s richest man, Eike Batista, looks set to develop a solar panel manufacturing complex in Rio state, in alliance with Taiwanese electronics provider Foxconn.
As a direct result of REC announcing the closure of its 650MW multicrystalline wafer plant at Herøya, Norway by the second quarter of 2012, slurry recycling sub-contractor, SiC Processing has said that it would also close its 4 production lines at plant Heroya II with an annual capacity of 44,000 tons. The company said that 100 jobs would be lost.
As part of plans to increase hyperpure polysilicon production to meet customer demand, Wacker has officially started volume production at its latest plant in Nünchritz, Germany. Wacker said it had invested €900 million in the facilities, creating more than 500 new jobs. The 15,000MT polysilicon plant should reach full capacity within the next few weeks, Wacker said.
German-based companies involved in the supply of manufacturing equipment for the global solar industry had a record sales year in 2011, according to the latest report from trade association, VDMA. German equipment suppliers benefited from a focus on advanced cell technology that supported a global market share of 46% in 2011. However, overcapacity is impacting sales to major markets in Asia, particularly China, in 2012.
