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A 8.7MW solar farm in the Prachin Buri Province of Thailand has been completed using DuPont Apollo thin film modules. Built in collaboration with L Solar 1 Company and Loxley Plc, said to be one of Thailand’s largest IT conglomerates, the solar farm will be grid-connected by the fourth quarter of 2011. the plant is expected to have an average production capacity of 12,000,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) per year.
Nuon said it will abandon the €85 million Healianthos solar cell foil project and lay off workers at a manufacturing pilot plant in Arnhem, the Netherlands, after the failure of an 18-month worldwide search for investment partners.
Energy Conversion Devices’ subsidiary United Solar has revealed that a 238KW system using its Uni-Solar thin-film solar laminates will be installed at the Pituaçu Stadium in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. This is said to be the first solar system to be installed on a soccer arena in South America.
For the third year in succession, Oerlikon Solar has received Solar PV Management magazine’s award for Thin-Film Innovations. Oerlikon won thanks to its new production line, ThinFab, with the award handed out at a ceremony during this week’s 26th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition in Hamburg.
Thin-film PV module manufacturer NexPower has begun mass production of its new 155W tandem-junction thin-film silicon module. The latest member of the Taiwanese company’s silicon NT-series, the new module will be renamed Xtreme+, along with all further NT-series modules to reach over 155W of nominal power.
Hemholtz Centre Berlin has awarded the order for two A600V7 depositions systems to Leybold Optics, Germany, following a Europe-wide tender process to transfer new thin-film PV technology to industrial production.
Following the successful implementation of fluorine technology at Schüco TF’s 40MW Osterweddingen site, the company has signed a significant long-term supply contract with Linde Gases for the delivery of onsite fluorine (F2) to its new thin-film module mass production site in Großröhrsdorf, eastern Germany.
Inventux Technologies has extended its product warranties for its micromorph-silicon thin-film PV systems from five to 10 years. The offer includes system components such as modules, inverters, and mounting systems and is being provided at no additional cost.
Oerlikon revealed that it had recently signed an agreement with the Sauber Formula 1 team to build a solar park at the team’s headquarters in Hinwil. Additionally, the two organizations will partner on developing several environmentally focused initiatives. Further information regarding the size of the solar project was not released.
Commercial operation has begun at California’s largest solar power project after NRG Solar and Eurus Energy America activated their 45MW Avenal Solar Generating Facility in Kings County. The facility was developed by Eurus and the electricity produced will be sold to Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) under separate 20-year power purchase agreements.
