United States Investment In India Photovoltaic Industry

India is increasing in the global market, the share of photovoltaic cell panels. Signet in California of the United States in solar energy company in late December 2007 that in the next 10 years will be 2 billion US dollars investment in India building three solar photovoltaic products manufacturing plant.

After three factories will be built with the annual output of 900 MW. India seeks to create the world's lowest cost of photovoltaic modules. Signet solar energy company also plans to establish R & D center in India.

India is an attractive local labor and low-cost manufacturing base. In addition, India's production of photovoltaic cell panels companies can enjoy tax breaks and subsidies. To this end, the market is expected to India's annual sales from the current 6 billion US dollars to a 2010 40 billion US dollars / year.

New photovoltaic manufacturing construction of the plant will accelerate India to enter the field of renewable energy. Currently India's renewable energy capacity of about 10 GW, the next 25 years will be increased to 80 GW.

Source: 环球能源网 Jan. 14, 2008

South Africa Need To Vigorously Develop Solar Energy, Ease The Power Crisis

Professor at the University of South Africa, recently said that the country should be shifted to ease the country's solar power crisis.

The University of Johannesburg, said that solar energy technology development to become South Africa could become an economic solution to the power crisis in the way.

The new ultra-thin film materials used in the manufacture of solar panels can save more costs. The University believes that the new thin film PV material change to solar power will be completely changed way.

Previous silicon solar panels activities as PV materials, but the cost of imports expensive as the obstacles to the success of the law. The university said the new material (CIGS) that copper - indium - Gallium - even selenium can significantly reduce costs. From CIGS panels composed of very thin, flexible, and easy to bend, can replace old vitreous. And its efficiency is very high, supply stability, and can be used for family, it can be used in the wind farm.

Source: 北极星网 Feb. 4, 2008

Japanese Government Announced It Would Vigorously Popularize The Family Solar Power Generation

The Japanese Government has announced that the family should make great efforts to popularize solar power generation , to 2030, the family users from the current 400,000 to expand about 14 million, equivalent to the total number of households in Japan about 30%.

In order to make the average family can use solar power, the Japanese government decided to set up by Chinese and foreign experts of the international research institutions, specialized in low-cost solar panels of the new research and development and the inclusion in the annual budget of 20 billion yen.

Will be developed by the Government of Japan to improve energy efficiency than 1 ~ 2 times the new solar panels, and in 2030 their costs from the current 46 yen per kilowatt down to 7 yen. The objective is to in 2030 before residential solar power capacity (now 1.3 million kilowatts) expanded to 30 times.

Source: 中国工业报 Feb. 4, 2008

Also Work The Night: Infrared Solar Panels Efficiency As High As 80%

The most expensive, most sophisticated, most complex conversion efficiency of solar panels to about 40%, which is only 40% absorption of sunlight can be converted into electricity. Scientists think that in the little room efficiency instead focus on reducing costs in the United States Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for a cheap, folding infrared solar panels, and the highest conversion efficiency up 80%.

The new panel is the key to the use of nano-technology. Its surface covered a nano-miniature antenna array, and add thickness of the 1000 atomic conductive metal wire can capture infrared radiation, even in the evening can also continue to work.

Nano-technology research in general are staying in the centimetre level, but INL go to the micron level, within each box integrates 260 million ultra-miniature antenna.

More commendable is that the use of the folding plastic materials also very easy to make, so scientists believe that this technology can be quickly out of the laboratory, and ultimately bring cheap and efficient solar power programme.

The only regret is that, while Nano antenna in the sun will release a great deal of electronic, but it's no way these electronic capture, output power is not. INL is the current practice in nanotechnology in the implantation of a miniature antenna capacitor, or AC / DC converters, which hopes to take the capture of energy, and will not increase costs, loss of efficiency.

Source: 驱动之家 Feb. 3, 2008