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China's largest energy group, XinAo is to install and test EMCORE’s concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system at a coal gasification project in Langfang, China with the possibility that the project would require more than 60MW of CPV systems. XinAo will undertake reliability and performance testing on a 50 kilowatt (kW) pilot project. Read more >>

Yingli Green Energy has announced the completion of two sales contracts for the supply of PV modules to Korea Electric Power Industrial Development Corp. (KEPID), a renewable energy company, and Kaycom Corp., an electronic components and PV devices distributor. Read more >>

Spire Corporation has said that it has won a competitive bid to supply turnkey equipment for a combined solar module and solar cell facility from Jiangxi Gemei Sci-Tech LTD, based in Jiangxi, a southern province in China. The contract includes a 25MW multi-crystalline solar cell factory and an adjacent 25MW module facility. Read more >>

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 >>

Kyocera has signed an agreement with Akeena Solar to manufacture Andalay panels, Akeena’s proprietary solar panel technology. The agreement will see Kyocera using its high efficiency solar cells in the manufacture of Andalay solar panels for Akeena, delivering 1.6MW of panels in 2008. Read more >>

BioSolar has said that its bio-based materials from renewable plant sources have entered the commercialization phase with the launch of its ‘BioBacksheet’ product for photovoltaic modules. Read more >>

Power-One, Inc. has been selected by the Energy Division of Isolux Corsán to provide its ‘Aurora’ PVI-Central inverters for Spain’s largest photovoltaic-power installation project. Installation of 100 invertors is expected before September 2008, covering approximately 34MW. Read more >>

Spire Corporation has won a follow-on turnkey photovoltaic cell module assembly line contract with Spanish renewable energy company Fluitecnik S.A. The new 20MW line will be operated in Portugal. Read more >>

The United States Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has purchased Spire Corporation’s ‘SPI-SUN SIMULATOR’ 4600SLP, the company’s latest model of its Single Long Pulse Solar Simulator technology. The need for the technology is due to the increasing trend in photovolatic module sizes. Read more >>

Dongyang Creditech Co. Ltd. from South Korea has placed an order for a turnkey photovoltaic module assembly line with Spire Corporation. Spire will provide Dongyang with a semi-automated crystalline cell module manufacturing line capable of producing up to 12MW. Dongyang will also use Spire’s process technology and training services to operate the factory. Read more >>