LDK Solar to produce the world's largest polysilicon silicon ingot

August 7, from the world's giant LDK Solar Photovoltaic company reported good news: Since the output in May 2006 weighing 275 kilograms of Asia's largest polysilicon solar silicon ingots, the other day, the company also smooth the output up to 800 kilograms of the world's largest polysilicon solar silicon ingots, which marks the LDK Solar's polysilicon production technology standard to a new level will help reduce costs and production capacity, to promote the use of solar energy products will have a positive impact.

Polycrystalline silicon solar cells is the important raw materials and an excellent semiconductor material. Polycrystalline Silicon Ingot casting is the process of film production, one of the key link, in order to cast a very large ingots of 800 kg of silicon, LDK Solar continue to increase the input of human and material resources, has organized more than 10 R & D projects, to capture the a number of technical problems, for the 800 kg silicon ingot production to provide a strong protection. According to company chief technology officer Dr Wan Yuepeng, at present, LDK Solar is actively preparing for 1000 kg of silicon ingot R & D work, explore new silicon ingot manufacturing technology, strive to achieve in the crystal production level of the world's leading.

Aug. 9, 2009

Chicago, the largest city in the nation-building solar energy power plant

According to reports, the U.S. power company in Chicago (Exelon Corp.) And SunPower Corp. Access to the Chicago City Council approved, in Chicago, on industrial land south of the original building of the nation's largest solar power plant of the city. By the Chicago City Council approval, will be an area of 41 acres of the so-called "brown land" rented to Exelon Corp., For the installation of about 32,000 solar photovoltaic panels, the land lease for 25 years. The company said the project may be started in January 2010 electricity production.

Exelon Corp. Said that the value of 60 million U.S. dollars, power generation capacity of 10MW of solar photovoltaic project can be successfully carried out, to a large extent depend on the availability of the U.S. Department of Energy to provide federal loan guarantees. The company hoped that the project 80% of the funds would be federal loan guarantees help.

Another construction of the project enterprise, the largest U.S. solar cell manufacturer SunPower module hopes to build more solar power plants, and power utility companies to buy their profit.

The Chicago power company plans to plant to sell electricity wholesale to utility companies and other customers, the total electricity consumption from 1200 to 1500 to meet the needs of the family. The company said construction of the project could create about 200 jobs.

Aug. 6, 2009

Spain's new large-scale photovoltaic power plants more than 600

2008 worldwide more than 1,000 new large-scale photovoltaic power stations have been established, and the formation of the League of power network. Among them, the construction of many power plants can be divided into many stages of construction, so taking into account the power station is under construction, the total will be higher. Union network in the power station, power station in Spain accounted for about 600, Germany and the United Kingdom occupy more than 120, respectively. It is also worth mentioning that the roof of the Belgian installation of solar power generation equipment and the Czech Republic, open-air installation.

In Asia, South Korea in 2008 with more installation of photovoltaic power generation equipment and the top rate. In Europe, in 2008 the number of photovoltaic power generation equipment installed in more than 800 countries have been on the rise. There are also 1500 power station is under construction. United States, with more than 400 photovoltaic power stations, the world's second-largest in the world.

Aug. 4, 2009

First Solar first half revenue growth of 103.5%

The world's thin-film solar module manufacturer First Solar 7 on 30 announced Q2 results: revenue in 2008 from 267 million U.S. dollars during the same period grew 97 percent to 525.9 million U.S. dollars. First Solar2009 in the first quarter revenues of 418.2 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 112%. Taking all these data, the first half of 2009, the First Solar reached 944.1 million U.S. dollars in revenue, an increase of 103.5%.

First Solar full year 2008 revenues of 1,246,300,000 U.S. dollars, while in 2009 the first half of First Solar's revenue reached 944.1 million U.S. dollars, and this results in the first half of the overall downturn in the industry under the condition achieved by This shows that the company's strong market competitiveness. Business degrees in the industry gradually picked up under the good, First Solar's performance in the second half looking forward to more.

Declining cost of First Solar is continuing to strengthen the competitiveness of the root of the problem. 4-quarter 2008 average production of First Solar's cost has been reduced to 0.98 U.S. dollars per watt, is the world's first production cost is lower than 1 U.S. dollars per watt of solar energy companies. At present, the First Solar manufacturing cost per watt has slipped to 0.87 U.S. dollars.

In addition, First Solar had previously said that the plan in 2014 its CdTe thin film solar cell module manufacturing costs per watt will reach 0.52 ~ 0.63 U.S. dollars, compared to the current 0.93 U.S. dollars-per-watt cost of about 30 ~ 40% decline in conversion efficiency from the current 10.9 % try for to 12.5%, 1.6 percentage points to upgrade.

First Soalr as a result of strong performance, well-known management consulting firm Navigant Consulting has estimated that in 2009 will exceed China's First Solar and Suntech Power Japan's Sharp to become the world's largest manufacturers of photovoltaic components. In the production of solar cells, First Solar is also expected to more than Germany's Q-Cells, the world's largest manufacturer of solar cells.

Aug. 3, 2009