Applied Materials, Inc. today announced another first for the solar industry with its SunFab Performance Service™ program. This unique service solution guarantees the performance cost and output of the Applied SunFab™ Thin Film Line for producing solar modules, enabling continuous cost reduction based on megawatt output. As the most comprehensive integrated support solution in the solar industry, the SunFab Performance Service allows customers to quickly ramp to volume production and optimize the efficiency and productivity of their SunFab™ Line.
Applied has signed a multiyear agreement to provide the SunFab Performance Service to T-Solar Global S.A. of Spain for the Applied SunFab Thin Film Line. Using 5.7m2 glass panels, the SunFab Line can reduce the cost of utility-scale photovoltaic installations by more than 20%. “Based on Applied’s proven track record of providing service and technology to the chip industry, we are very confident that we have made the best choice for this key project,” said Juan Laso, general manager of T-Solar.
As part of this service agreement, Applied will manage and optimize T-Solar’s SunFab Line performance with a wide variety of engineering, logistics, technology and automation software solutions. In addition to all preventive and corrective maintenance and complete parts management, Applied will provide continuous improvement programs and total factory optimization to enable low operating cost and on-going productivity gains.
“By entrusting the equipment, maintenance and performance of our solar production line to Applied, we are guaranteed specific results that minimize our risk, shorten our time to production, and meet our profit goals,” stated Cesar Alberte, fab director of T-Solar. “We view this as the most economic solution to running our solar fab that over time will allow us to drop the cost per watt of solar energy.”
“Guaranteeing performance through cost of operation and associated megawatt output represents a major shift from the traditional service model,” said Manfred Kerschbaum, senior vice president and general manager of Applied GlobalServices. “We are pleased to pioneer the way in providing customers like T-Solar with a comprehensive service program that represents a step function improvement in value and the most complete and dependable choice for maintaining and optimizing their investment.”
In 2007, T-Solar became the first company in Europe to order an Applied SunFab Thin Film production line. The line is expected to have a nominal rated capacity of 40 megawatts per year when fully operational, enabling T-Solar to capitalize on the rapidly expanding market in Spain for photovoltaic installations.
Source: 电子产品世界 May. 17, 2008
Applied Materials Announces Powerful SunFab Performance Service; Signs Multiyear Agreement with T-Solar
Hungary To Encourage The Development Of Renewable Energy
Hungary in bio-fuels, methane gas, geothermal and solar energy development prospects of huge, the Government of Hungary has developed a long-term planning to increase alternative energy applications. At present Hungarian power companies buy green energy price per kilowatt-hour mandatory 23 forint (0.12 U.S. dollars), government expenditures for the annual 100 million euros.
2006 Hungarian Economy Ministry of Energy Policy 2005-2010 released new guidelines, established to improve the energy consumption structure and the central finance to support renewable energy industry.
2007-2013 Hungarian national development planning in the area of renewable energy will to support. According to the Kyoto agreement, Hungary agreed to the 2008-2012 period between 6 percent annual reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, average annual emissions to 30.8 million tons.
Source: 驻匈牙利经商参处子站 May. 16, 2008
South African Electricity Shortage, Highlighted Business Opportunities In Solar
Chinese businessmen have to seize business opportunities opening up in South Africa and the Southern African market of solar energy
South Africa, the country has entered a state of emergency power. Economic center in northern Johannesburg is indeed every day, stopping a few hours, or even traffic lights also be affected, in individual blocks, the vagrant has taken the initiative to direct traffic. Next year, the South African electricity shortage is the biggest threat facing the economy. In South Africa's largest commercial media "Business Day" when interviewed, South Africa 10 largest enterprises in the CEO so that half.
One of the most noteworthy is that the solar energy industry will become a highlight business opportunities. Southern African continent all year round sunshine, the South African sunshine each year up to 2500 hours, the use of solar energy equipment is the best region.
South Africa's power shortage to the foreign companies have brought tremendous business opportunities and keen sense of smell has started action. Israeli solar energy companies in the MST Technology announced on April 25, entered the South African electricity market. It will build solar power stations, the first year of generating 1000 megawatts, a total of five-year plans 5,000 MW power generation. Seven years later, MST will be exported. They through the establishment of the joint venture into the South African market.
Source: 上海侨报 Tong Yue May. 13, 2008
All Of Asia's Largest Solar Powered Multimedia Walls
This huge multimedia LED curtain wall in Beijing City Fuxing Road and Xicui Road junctions, the project designer Simone Giostra by the United States and Arup companies completed.
The whole project is the biggest characteristic of the wall using solar panels and LED lights, the day when solar panels will store solar energy for power, in each of the glass behind the installation of LED lights for the night outside the walls of lights Effect, all LED lights are used by power from solar panels during the day in the power, significantly saving energy, LED lighting through computer-controlled, the outside walls show various images, an increase of the construction of the artistic effect.
The total project cost 15 million yuan from 2300, nine kinds of different specifications of the PV panels, with extraordinary visual effects, during the Olympics, the walls of this very large multimedia foreign friends will show the latest and most modern Beijing.
Source: CNET科技资讯 May. 6, 2008
Yingli Solar With An Annual Output Of 20 Megawatts Monocrystalline Silicon Production Line Test Success
Recently, Yingli Solar with an annual output of 20 megawatts monocrystalline silicon production project successful test. The project is Yingli Solar solar energy industry to optimize the investment in the production chain, a total investment of 62 million yuan, attracted a total of 20 China's leading single-crystal furnace each year, handling about 200 tons of high impurity content of silicon material.
Source: 河北日报 May. 4, 2008
