Friday, November 28, 2008

Weihai will build amorphous silicon roof PV power station

Amorphous silicon roof BIPV power station will be installed at Shandong Weihai Culture Center, and the system will cover 7,800 square meters, with capacity of 273KW, and produce about 330,000 KWH power per year. This will become the biggest amorphous silicon roof PV power station in the world.

The system will be installed by Weihai China Glass Solar.

Gansu province to build 10MW on-grid amorphous silicon PV power station

2008 November 26th, Fujian GS-Solar signed agreement to build 10MW on-grid amorphous silicon PV power station in Gem city, Qinhai province, China. The total investment will be about 300 million RMB.

GS-Solar is one professional amorphous silicon solar cell manufacturer with production capacity of 20MW, and GS-Solar plans to expand its amorphous silicon solar cell production capacity to 1,000MW in 2010.

Sichuan build its first amorphous silicon off-grid PV power station

November 19th 2008, amorphous silicon solar panels made by Sinocome was shipped from Beijing to Daying, Sichuan. This indicates that the first amorphous silicon off-grid PV power station in Sichuan will begin to operate soon.

The total investment will be 2 billion RMB, and the power station will generate 365,000,000 KWH electricity annually. And the first phase project will start operation in February 2009.

China Sunergy Breaks Ground On 400MW Shanghai Base

Nov 28, 2008

Nanjing-based solar cell manufacturer China Sunergy (Nasdaq: CSUN) broke ground on its Shanghai research, development and production base in Songjiang Industrial Park on Friday.

Sunergy said it is targeting production capacity of 400MW for the base that will focus on N-type solar cells. Last December, the company set production targets at 500MW. Sunergy's Shanghai R&D center, a portion of the project, is scheduled for completion in the first half of 2009. Sunergy reported third quarter net income of $0.2 million, compared to a loss of $4.4 million in the third quarter of 2007 and net income of $3.1 million last quarter, on exchange and foreign currency losses earlier this week.