Solyndra built at Livermore, California commercial flat-top PV power station

Solyndra as their own R & D to improve the commercial flat-top solar photovoltaic power generation systems manufacturer, in March 31, 2009 announced that Livermore, California at the roof of the West on the success of the cinema set up power 132 kilowatts of solar power generation equipment, and fully operational. The project is at Solyndra the United States and Europe have already installed or planned a number of large-scale commercial photovoltaic systems in the world. Solyndra makes photovoltaic solar power system equipment, a small dip at the topping-out of the business to maximize the coverage to reach up and convenient to install without drilling or the weight of the roof to a fixed solar power, so installation time is not more than four days. The photovoltaic system of cylindrical thin-film technology based on the template for a typical flat-topped business buildings to provide low-cost under the conditions of the installation of solar power in a higher power output. Solyndra, based in the United States, California, with an area of 28,000 square meters of high-modern, fully automated production base.

Solyndra is located in Fremont, was founded in 2005, the factory can produce about 110 megawatts per year of solar cell scale. Factory has been to a number of large customers, such as the United States and Germany SolarPower provide solar PhoenixSolar. However, an official at the company to the international shipping of commercial customers of the second year, the company has orders for more than 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, of which more than half of customers from Europe. Company Solyndra tubular CIGS thin film solar cell manufacturing methods.

Source: Greek Meng PV Apr. 8, 2009