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Contents 

EDITORIAL 

EDITORIAL 

2 SNEC defies the weaknesses in the 

2. All attention towards South East Asia! 

– Usha 

solar 

Prasad 

market 

Trevor Galbraith 

SPECIAL FEATURES 

SPECIAL FEATURES 

16. 

6 

Success 

Manufacturing 

Story – Morgan 

Solar 

Solar: 

Photovoltaic 

Challenging Products the in the SunUnited 

States 

7. Winning Part 2 the of battle a two-part of energy seriessavings 

JoAnne Bettina Castagna, Weiss, Ed.D Executive Director, 

12. Will SEMI PV shine PV Group again in 2012? 

14 Tom Winning Falcon, DEK the battle Solar of energy savings 

JoAnne Castagna, Ed.D. 

26 Will PV shine again in 2012? 

INTERVIEW Tom Falcon, DEK Solar 

14. SEMI India – Mr. Debasish Paul 

Choudhury 

INTERVIEW 

20 MANZ Automation — Kari Raudasoja 

REGULAR FEATURES 

4. Industry news 

19. COLUMNS New products for Integration & Installers 

21. 20 New 2012 products is following for Manufacturers 

down the same path 

24. International as 2011… diary is that so bad? 

Jon Custer-Topai 

REGULAR FEATURES 

4 Industry news 

28 New products for integrators & installers 

30 New products for manufacturers 

32 International diary 

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Even as the global solar industry is 

going through a rough patch - what 

with the moves by the United States 

and Europe toward imposing possible antidumping 

tariffs on Chinese-made solar 

panels, the EU investigation of alleged 

dumping etc., – it looks like South East Asia 

will tell a different story. 

When we look at the development of 

solar power in the U.S, Europe and China 

- South East Asia showed slow movement 

and was far behind. However, with all the 

attention the region is getting of late, solar 

companies are optimistic about the bright 

prospects for the industry in South East 

Asia. Many European and US companies are 

turning towards South East Asia to set up or 

expand business. 

Wirsol Solar AG has set up a new 

subsidiary in Malaysia, Wirsol South East 

Asia Sdn. Bhd., thus increasing its visibility 

on the growing Asian markets. For the next 

four years, Wirsol has planned several largescale 

solar projects in Malaysia. 

The Dow Chemical Company has 

begun production of ENLIGHT Polyolefin 

Encapsulant Films for use in photovoltaic 

solar panels in Thailand. The Map Ta 

Phut, Thailand site is a state-of-the-art 

manufacturing operation that allows Dow 

to double global production capacity 

immediately. 

To further penetrate the local 

market in one of South East Asia’s growing 

solar markets, First Solar has established a 

subsidiary in Thailand, First Solar (Thailand) 

Ltd. The company has also set up an office 

in Bangkok. 

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., largest 

manufacturers of high-performance solar 

power products, has opened an office in 

All attention 

toward South 

East Asia! 

Tokyo, Japan, to provide marketing and sales 

support as well as technical support services 

to its Japan-based customers. The local office 

will bring the company closer to its partners 

in Japan and ensure that it can provide them 

with the services and support they need to 

grow their businesses. 

And now, there is news that the 

Hanwha Group intends to acquire the 

insolvent photovoltaics company Q-Cells SE! 

In addition, South East Asia is also 

getting good investments for solar projects. 

In a recent announcement, Armstrong Asset 

Management informed about investment in 

small-scale clean energy projects in South 

East Asia by the end of the year. Initially, 

it will develop a solar project in Malaysia 

(20 MW) and multiple projects in Thailand 

(100 MW). 

In another major bid to boost the 

growing renewable energy investments in 

India, the US Exim Bank has approved a $80 

million direct loan for Reliance Power to 

fund acquisition of solar power technology 

from American companies. Reliance Power 

would use the funds to buy the technology 

from companies in eight states of the US 

for expanding the company’s Rs. 700-crore 

solar power project in Rajasthan. The project 

is being co-financed by Asian Development 

Bank and the Dutch development bank. 

All these developments and many 

more, are sure to strengthen South East Asia’s 

growing status as a solar manufacturing hub. 

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Industry news 

Industry news 

Yingli Green Energy 

obtains the first JIS Q 8901 

Certification from TUV 

Rheinland Japan 

Yingli Green Energy Holding 

Company Limited, a leading solar 

energy company and one of the world’s 

largest vertically integrated photovoltaic 

manufacturers, which markets its products 

under the brand “Yingli Solar,” informed 

that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Yingli 

Green Energy Japan Corporation, Ltd. 

obtained the first JIS Q 8901 Certification 

from TUV Rheinland Japan Ltd. 

The JIS Q 8901 Certification was 

established on February 29, 2012 in the 

aim to encourage wider adoption of PV 

power generating systems, as well as to 

promote product reliability and user 

protection in Japan solar market. The 

certification specifies requirements for 

reliability assurance system concerning 

design, production and product warranty 

for PV modules. 

After establishment of the JIS Q 

8901, TUV Rheinland Japan has started 

the certification scheme in July 2012. 

With its PV operation in Japan, Yingli 

again demonstrated that its aim is to 

provide excellent services to the industry 

and support in the creation of confidence 

in long-term product reliability. Yingli 

Green Energy has demonstrated its 

commitment towards market needs and 

expectations by successfully implementing 

all requirements of the JIS Q 8901. 

Samsung and Sharp will 

still be on the market in 10 

years at least 

Hardly anyone can deny at the 

moment that the brand landscape is 

about to change dramatically within the 

photovoltaic industry. In addition, the 

strong pressure to make distinctions in 

the mass market has steadily increased 

and new solutions, such as the storage 

system, enter the market. Due to the 

current rapidly changing conditions of 

the photovoltaic market, the Bonn based 

market research institute, EuPD Research, 

has currently conducted a survey of over 

1,500 users of the “Photovoltaikforum” 

with a focus on services, storage solutions 

and the future prospects of manufacturers. 

Initial results of the study are already 

clear: The majority of end users are aware 

of the plight of the solar industry and take 

this into account when selecting their 

components. In terms of survivability, 

their confidence lies with the companies 

Samsung and Sharp. It is not surprising 

that large and established companies 

are ahead in terms of confidence. It is 

striking, however, that the installers and 

end users distinguish critically between 

the established Chinese manufacturers. 

Preliminary results show a 

substantial majority interest in the current 

issue of lithium and lead acid batteries. 

Based on the average willingness to pay, 

it is also clear that prices will have to fall 

even more significantly, so that today’s 

solutions are suitable for mass production. 

Wirsol Solar extends into 

Southeast Asia 

With a new subsidiary in Malaysia, 

Wirsol Solar AG increases its visibility on 

the growing Asian markets. From now 

on, the solar project developer from the 

German state of Baden-Württemberg is 

going to supervise all its projects from 

Kuala Lumpur. 

With an above-average solar 

radiation and a feed-in tariff for solar 

power, which is similar to the German 

model, Malaysia offers attractive 

conditions for projects within the field of 

photovoltaics. 

For the next four years, Wirsol 

has planned several large-scale solar 

projects in Malaysia. The newly founded 

WirsolSouthEastAsiaSdn. Bhd. is in 

negotiations in further countries in the 

region. Wirsol is an international solar 

energy provider and specialized in the 

planning, financing, construction and 

maintenance of solar power plants of any 

size. 

Upsolar extends 

sustainability efforts with 

new module cleaning 

solution 

Upsolar, a leading international 

provider of solar PV modules, has 

entered into a partnership with 

OkologischeSolarreinigung to offer an 

ecological and environmentally harmless 

cleaning solution for its products. The 

collaboration marks another step in 

Upsolar’s industry-leading commitment 

to corporate social responsibility. 

Developed by the Lichmatrix 

Laboratory in Munich, Okologische 

Solarreinigung has implemented a 

new process in module cleaning called 

Deisolyse, which both effectively removes 

various types of carbon deposits that can 

form on modules after manufacturing and 

acts as a preventative measure to keep dirt 

from settling on installed modules. 

Whereas other solutions require 

demineralized or distilled water, the 

Deisolyse process allows for the use of 

regular tap water without creating any 

additional waste, and respecting the 

environment from production through 

end-use. By using water that does not 

contain any information, Deisolyse 

enhances the water’s properties to enable 

a reduction in corrosion and biogenic 

growth while improving light transmission 

for module glass. The result is enhanced 

module efficiency and runtime operation 

to increase the value of the PV plants - a 

novel solution that represents a paradigm 

shift in the area of module cleaning. 

Dow begins production of 

ENLIGHT(TM) Polyolefin 

Encapsulant Films in 

Thailand 

The Dow Chemical Company 

has begun production in Thailand for 

ENLIGHT(TM) Polyolefin Encapsulant 

Films for use in photovoltaic solar panels. 

The Map Ta Phut, Thailand site is a 

state-of-the-art manufacturing operation 

that allows Dow to double global 

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production capacity immediately. Dow is 

also constructing a third manufacturing 

site for this film in Schkopau, Germany, 

which will also bring additional capacity. 

Dow has had a production facility in 

Findlay, Ohio, since December 2010. 

The new production facility has 

created approximately 35 new jobs, which 

brings the total number of employees in 

Thailand to close to 1,000, nearly doubling 

the number of people working there in 

the past four years. Thailand is home to 

Dow’s largest manufacturing operations 

in the Asia-Pacific region. Dow has had 

a presence in Thailand for more than 45 

years, and has operated manufacturing 

sites there since 1978. 

The benefits of ENLIGHT 

Encapsulant Films were further validated 

earlier this year when performance-based 

tests conducted by TUV Rheinland on solar 

panels made with Dow’s films were found 

to meet all industry standards (IEC 61215). 

UH researcher develops 

solar panel coating to 

increase efficiency 

A University of Houston researcher 

has developed a nanoparticle coating for 

solar panels that makes it easier to keep the 

panels clean, maintaining their efficiency 

for longer and reducing the maintenance 

and operations costs. 

The patent-pending coating 

developed by physics professor Seamus 

“Shay” Curran, director of UH’s Institute 

for NanoEnergy, has successfully 

undergone testing at the Dublin Institute 

for Technology and will undergo field 

trials being conducted by an engineering 

firm in North Carolina. 

The Self-Cleaning Nano 

Hydrophobic (SCNH107TM) layer has 

been licensed by C-Voltaics from UH. 

C-Voltaics, a start-up energy company 

dedicated to the generation of more 

practical clean energy for use in off-grid 

and on-grid applications, will oversee 

marketing of the coating and a “Storm 

Cell”, a transportable energy generator 

with unique patent-pending designs 


November 6–8, 2012 

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and Conference for the Solar Industry 

Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai 

300 Exhibitors 

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10,000 Visitors 

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Industry news 

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and engineering aspects that was also 

developed by Curran at UH. 

Solar panels need to have a clean 

surface to efficiently gather light from 

the sun, but they are often soiled by dust, 

pollen, water and other particles. Curran’s 

coating acts as a barrier protection against 

these pollutants. 

The nano-thin coating repels dust, 

pollen, water and other particles without 

hindering the solar panel’s ability to 

absorb sunlight. The coating can maintain 

this ideal hydrophobic surface for years, 

reducing overall maintenance. 

JA Solar establishes office 

in Japan 

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., one 

of the world’s largest manufacturers of 

high-performance solar power products, 

has opened an office in Tokyo, Japan, to 

provide marketing and sales support as 

well as technical support services to its 

Japan-based customers. 

JA Solar has established a strong 

presence in Japan and this new office 

will help drive the company’s continued 

growth in this promising market. Japanese 

customers have stringent demands in 

terms of product quality and efficiency 

and trust JA Solar to meet their exacting 

requirements. The local office will bring 

the company closer to its partners in Japan 

and ensure that it can provide them with 

the services and support they need to grow 

their businesses. 

According to independent research 

by SolarBuzz, the Japanese PV market is 

expected to grow 64 percent year-on-year 

in 2012 to 2.05 GW. 

Chinese solar imports 

drop for three consecutive 

months 

For the third straight month, imports 

of Chinese solar cells and panels into the 

United States decreased year-over-year, 

according to the Coalition for American 

Solar Manufacturing (CASM). In June, 

Chinese solar imports totalled $99.6 

million, down almost 60 percent from 

$241.5 million in June 2011, according 

to the Department of Commerce’s “U.S. 

Imports of Merchandise” database. The 

year-over-year decline is significant and 

reflects the market’s rising recognition 

of the costs, risks and uncertainties 

associated with importing Chinese solar 

cells and panels, according to CASM. 

While some of the year-on-year 

decrease is due to sharply falling module 

prices from 2011 to 2012, June 2012 imports 

of Chinese solar cells and panels were also 

down 20 percent from the previous month’s 

total of $124.1 million. Between the same 

two months in 2011, the value of Chinese 

imports increased 7 percent. 

Despite three months of declines, 

Chinese import levels for all of 2012 are 

still ahead of last year’s record pace: For 

the first six months of this year, the total 

value of Chinese cell and panel imports 

reached $1.32 billion, up from $1.23 billion 

for the same period of 2011, an increase of 

7.3 percent, according to the Commerce 

data. The increase is even more significant 

because dumped and subsidized Chinese 

pricing has lowered the per-watt average 

import values so dramatically in 2011 and 

2012. 

Global solar panels market 

to grow at the rate of 

15.3% till 2015 

Analysts forecast that the Global 

Solar Panels market is estimated to 

grow at a CAGR of 15.3 percent over 

the period 2011-2015. One of the key 

factors contributing to this market 

growth is functional and technological 

advancement. The Global Solar Panels 

market has also been witnessing the entry 

of new competitors with competitive 

advantages. However, the seasonal 

fluctuation of solar power availability 

could pose a challenge to the growth of 

this market. 

According to a report titled Global 

Solar Panels Market 2011-2015, the 

progression of technology in the solar 

photovoltaic (PV) industry is driving 

the growth of the Global Solar Panels 

market. The report covers the Americas, 

and the EMEA and APAC regions; it also 

covers the Global Solar Panels market 

landscape and its growth prospects in the 

coming years. The report also includes a 

discussion of the key vendors operating in 

this market. 

Key vendors dominating this market 

space include First Solar Inc., Suntech 

Power Holdings Co. Ltd., Trina Solar Ltd., 

and Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd. 

Canadian Solar completes 

sale of solar power plant to 

Stonepeak Infrastructure 

Partners 

Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world’s 

largest solar companies, has completed the 

sale to Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners 

of a utility-scale solar power plant for 

approximately C$48.0 million (US$48.4 

million). As the developer, EPC and 

construction financier, Canadian Solar 

built the solar power plant to provide 

enough clean, renewable energy to power 

more than 1,200 homes in eastern Ontario 

near the town of Napanee. 

Named “Canadian Solar 1” (or 

“CS1”), the solar installation is now 

connected to the grid and includes 

approximately 50,000 Canadian Solar 

CS6M modules. Canadian Solar also won 

a 20-year contract to provide operations 

and maintenance services to Stonepeak 

for the utility-scale solar power plant. 

This project marks Canadian Solar’s 

continued success in the utility-scale solar 

power development space while furthering 

Ontario’s goal to provide green energy 

and green jobs. The Ontario renewables 

regime represents an attractive investment 

opportunity and we are excited about 

partnering with Canadian Solar and AMP 

Solar Group on this project. Canadian 

Solar Solutions’ projects team has done an 

excellent job completing this clean energy 

project and delivering a turnkey package 

for purchase by Stonepeak. 

As project co-developer, AMP Solar 

Group financed the acquisition of the asset 

with Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners 

and The Manufacturers Life Insurance 

Company. 


Winning the battle of energy savings 

Winning the battle of 

energy savings 

JoAnne Castagna, Ed.D. 

In 2004, Master Sgt. Mark Rizzo's U.S. 

Army convoy was traveling north on 

a route in Baghdad, Iraq. "I was in an 

armored Humvee with a driver, team leader 

and gunner when we were hit by a roadside 

bomb. Our vehicle shook and the driver 

moved the vehicle to the right of the road, 

which saved all of our lives," said Rizzo. 

"Our driver acted in a way that helped 

save us from further attack. He could have 

easily panicked and ran off the road into a 

barrier or flipped our 13,000 pound vehicle. 

Because he had been trained at the "Battle 

Lab" and understood the capabilities of the 

vehicle he reacted in a way that saved our 

lives and helped us get through our mission." 

Last spring, the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, New York District completed 

the construction of a solar power project to 

provide energy to the "Battle Lab" or New 

Jersey Army National Guard Joint Training 

and Training Development Center. The 

project is not only supporting a facility that 

is preparing Soldiers for battle and helping 

to save their lives, but saving the National 

Guard and taxpayers' considerable money 

and energy. 

TOP: Aerial Image of the New Jersey Army National Guard Regional Training Center or "Battle 

Lab." Credit: U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen. 

BOTTOM: The new array is a non-penetrating ballasted roof mounted SCHOTT POLY 230 Solar 

PV system that covers approximately 71,000 square feet of the Battle Lab's roof. 

Credit: JoAnne Castagna, New York District, Public Affairs. 

The Battle Lab is located at the Joint Base 

McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, a United States 

military facility that is located 18 miles 

southeast of Trenton, N.J. The "Battle Lab" 

is a one of a kind, high profile, state-of-the- 

Industry news 

art facility where up to 20,000 military and 

related personnel from all armed forces 

agencies around the country come annually 

to be trained to prepare for battle. 

"This is the battle up where Soldiers are 

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trained for all types of missions, including 

stateside missions, like the rescue opera- 

New tions during Hurricane products Katrina," said for Manufacturers 

John Hastings, Energy Program Manager 

at the New Jersey Department of Veterans 

Affairs who works with Rizzo, who today 

is the Operations Sergeant with the lab. 

The Soldiers are trained on a number of 

high tech training simulators that include 

live shooting ranges, actual mark ups of 

towns in Iraq, and vehicle roll over trainers, 

which was the training that saved the 

lives of Rizzo and his team. 

According to Hastings, this technology 

uses considerable energy. The lab uses 

1,833,800 Kilowatts annually. Two years 

ago, the New Jersey Army National Guard 

asked the Army Corps if it could construct 

a solar power project so they could save 

energy and money as they had done for 

them on previous solar power projects. 

In May 2011 the Army Corps completed 

the solar project with the assistance 

of contractor, P & S Construction 

of Lowell, Mass. The project consists of 

a solar photovoltaic power panel array 

that is mounted on the roof of the Battle 

Lab's 128,000 square foot facility. There 

are three different roof structures ranging 

in height from 13 feet to 25 feet above 


Soldiers training on the Battle Lab's high tech training simulators that will prepare them for 

battle. Credit: U.S. Army Photo by SSG Nicholas Young, NJARNG-JT2DC, Released. 

the ground. The new array covers approximately 

71,000 square feet of the roof and 

was placed next to a pre-existing array 

that has been providing energy for the lab 

and was constructed by Sun Power Corp 

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– March/April 2012 – 15

of San Jose, California. Panel arrays are 

composed of modules made up of several 

solar cells or photovoltaic cells that 

absorb sunlight that produce electricity. 

The larger the panel, the more electricity is 

produced. Electricity in the form of direct 

current is produced by the panels, which is 

not directly usable energy for a building. 

Most buildings require alternating current 

at a higher voltage. To make usable 

building power, the solar panel's direct 

current is fed into an inverter that transforms 

it into alternating current at a 

higher voltage. This alternating current 

power is then sent to the building's main 

transformers where it can be used by the 

building for its energy needs. "This new 

array along with the pre-existing array 

is doubling the amount of energy that is 

being produced for the lab. Together they 

are providing nearly 30 percent of the 

lab's annual energy needs and saving the 

National Guard and taxpayers' approximately 

$118,000 annually," said Jose Diaz, 

project manager, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, New York District. 

This project is also tied to the public 

power grid so that excess energy can be 

shared with the public. In addition, the 

project is under the State of New Jersey's 

Solar Renewable Energy Certificate 

Program. Under this program, solar system 

owners that generate over 1,000 kilowatts 

of electricity per year that are connected to 

the public power grid receive certificates. 

These certificates are then publicly sold 

and traded to New Jersey businesses and 

individuals, enabling them to receive solar 

power benefits without building a solar 

power system themselves. The revenue is 

returned to the solar system owners. 

The New Jersey National Guard expects 

to generate anywhere from $100,000- 

$140,000 annually in extra income from 

this facility and like they've done in the 

past, will reinvest this money to fund 

other energy reducing projects at other 

New Jersey Army National Guard locations. 

Diaz said, "I enjoyed working on this 

project because it makes me feel a sense 

of pride knowing that these projects will 

reduce our dependency on foreign oil and 

will help our country to achieve energy 

independence, as well as the benefits to 

our environment. It's also great that the 

Department of Defense is embracing the 

use of renewable energy and leading the 

way in the use of these technologies. This 

was evident at a U.S. Army/US Air Force 

Energy Forum I recently attended where 

the motto was 'Power the Force. Fuel the 

Fight.' " 

Dr. JoAnne Castagna is a Public Affairs 

Specialist (Writer) for the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, New York District. 


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– August/Sept 2012 – 9

This coming fall, the 

U.S. Army 

Corps of 

Engineers, New 

York District 

will be com- 

pleting another 

solar power 

project for the 

New Jersey Army 

National Guard in 

Lawrenceville, New 

Jersey. They're con- 

structing a rooftop 

mounted project on 

top of the New Jersey 

Homeland Security 

Center of Excellence, 

Headquarters of the New 

Jersey Department of 

Military and Veterans 

Affairs. This will com- 

plete their 7 th solar 

power system and gen- 

erate a combined 1.7 

Megawatts of power with 

an annual cost savings of 

$325,000. 

Soldiers train in actual mark ups of Iraq towns like this one. 

Credit: JoAnne Castagna, New York District, Public Affairs 





This coming fall, the 

U.S. Army 

Corps of 

Engineers, New 

York District 

will be com- 

pleting another 

solar power 

project for the 

New Jersey Army 

National Guard in 

Lawrenceville, New 

Jersey. They're con- 

structing a rooftop 

mounted project on 

top of the New Jersey 

Homeland Security 

Center of Excellence, 

Headquarters of the New 

Jersey Department of 

Military and Veterans 

Affairs. This will com- 

plete their 7 th solar 

power system and gen- 

erate a combined 1.7 

Megawatts of power with 

an annual cost savings of 

$325,000. 

Soldiers train in actual mark ups of Iraq towns like this one. 

Credit: JoAnne Castagna, New York District, Public Affairs 





Will PV shine Shine again in in 2012? 

Will PV shine again 

in 2012? 

Tom Falcon, DEK Solar 

It’s been a tough 12 months for PV cell 

manufacturers. Following a strong 

start to 2011, uncertainty over the 

future of feed-in tariffs (FiTs) across 

Europe has dented confidence in the 

future of the market and stalled orders 

just at a time when cell makers were 

building up stocks. 

With the euro zone in crisis, the prospect 

of generous FiTs seems increasingly 

unlikely for most European countries in 

the near future. And the starring roles 

of Germany and Italy in the ongoing 

European currency drama are, of course, 

particularly relevant to the PV industry. 

Together, these countries account for half 

the world market for solar panels. With 

one apparently on the verge of a financial 

breakdown, and the other its only likely 

source of economic help, there is perhaps 

little cause for optimism in the PV world. 

To make matters worse, all this has 

happened at the same time as the price 

of one of the costliest components of PV 

cells, silver, has doubled. While the new 

entrants that flooded the market in the 

first few quarters of 2011 sent module and 

cell prices into a nosedive. 

Where has all this left manufacturers? 

Right now, the PV market is suffering 

from a chronic oversupply issue. The exact 

figures vary depending on the source, but 

some estimates put the current level of 

PV factory utilization at around just 40 

percent. Elsewhere, observers point to an 

excess of anything from 6 GW to 10 GW 

of solar cell inventory above current levels 

of demand. 

Unsurprisingly, many tier 2 or tier 3 

suppliers have gone bust or been acquired. 

Tier 1 suppliers are struggling; it is fair to 

say that any manufacturer with less than 1 

or 2 GWs capacity will find it difficult to 

survive the current slump. 

light at the end of the 

tunnel? 

Things cannot stay like this forever, of 

course. Even as the European market languishes, 

new opportunities are beginning 

to open up in places such as Brazil, India, 

the Middle East, Russia and the USA. It 

remains to be seen how quickly this will 

translate into new orders for manufacturers 

in China and Taiwan, which jointly 

provide 80 percent of the world supply 

of silicon-based solar cells –which in 

turn make up 80 percent of the total PV 

market. But for all the gloom, these cell 

makers are not sitting idle. 

Whereas in the run-up to 2011 many 

manufacturers had perhaps sidelined 

research and development efforts in order 

to commit all available printing machines 

to meeting growing orders, researchers 

now have plenty of time to tinker on the 

shop floor. 

And the fruits of these efforts have 

started to emerge in the form of an 

increasingly dazzling array of efficiency 

gains. Many manufacturers are now registering 

conversion efficiencies of more 

than 20 percent, compared to around 

18 percent a year ago. Furthermore, a 

number of important printing innovations 

are emerging onto the scene. 

Take Dual Print metallization, for 

example. The idea behind this is simple. 

Previously, both the busbars and the fine 

fingers on the upper surface of a cell used 

to be printed together. These two elements 

of the cell have very different functions 

and silver deposit requirements, though. 

Busbars are just there to provide a collection 

point for the current and a solder 

surface, so they don’t need much silver. 

The fingers, on the other hand, require 

sufficient silver for optimum conductivity. 

When the two are printed together, you 

either need to put more silver on the busbars 

than they really need, which is costly, 

or put less than is needed on the fingers, 

which reduces the efficiency of the cell. 

counting the costs (and 

opportunities) 

This is something of a conundrum, but 

one not entirely without solution. Dual 

Print is one such opportunity. By printing 

the busbars first, using a screen, then overlaying 

the fine fingers with a metal stencil, 

such problems can indeed be solved. 

Printing these elements separately means 

you can get the best of both worlds, with 

a high aspect ratio and high silver content 

on the fingers and a low aspect ratio and 

low silver content on the busbars. And this 

can mean more efficiency and less cost. 

The downside is you have to have an 

extra screen printer and dryer on every 

metallization line, which implies a capital 

outlay. However, the payback comes in the 

form of a 10 percent to 20 percent saving 

in silver use per cell. So let’s say you currently 

spend 18 US dollar cents on silver 

per cell, a conservative 10 percent saving 

would give you back 1.8 cents per wafer. 

At an average production rate of 30,000 

wafers a day, you save $540 every 24 hours. 

If your line is working around the clock, 

you could pocket $197,000 a year, which 

means you’ll hit the return on investment 

sweet spot of the extra printer and dryer 

in no time at all. 

looking back, going forward 

Another recent innovation worthy of 

note is rear-side passivation. Most silicon 

PV cells are backed by two or three silver 

strips which act as interconnection and 

soldering points, while the rest of the back 

is printed with aluminum paste which 

forms one of the ‘poles’ of the solar panel. 

With rear-side passivation, instead 

of having aluminum covering the entire 

surface of the back of the cell, it only 

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makes contact at a few small points and elsewhere is 

separated from the wafer by a passivation layer, typically 

made of either silicon dioxide or aluminium oxide and 

then silicon nitride in a stack. This layer has a two-fold 

function. On one hand, it acts as an optical reflector so 

that any photons that happen to pass through the wafer 

without interacting will be reflected back and have a 

second chance of delivering electricity. On the other, it 

reduces recombination loss, which is where electrons 

that are activated by photons of light immediately bind to 

another nearby atom instead of going around the circuit 

and creating current. 

Leading innovation 

Along with researchers at the German Institute for Solar 

Energy Research in Hamelin (ISFH), we have combined 

print-on-print techniques with rear-side passivation 

in order to see what potential efficiency gains could 

be achieved for solar cells. We found print-on-print 

contributed approximately 0.2 percent efficiency gain 

while rear-side passivation provided around another 0.5 

percent to 0.7 percent, adding up to a very significant 

level of improvement. It is unsurprising, therefore, that 

these techniques are gaining in popularity; the challenge 

now is to make them cheaper and easier to implement so 

that they can be incorporated into standard production 

processes. I imagine we can expect this to start happening 

in 2012. 

Reducing costs 

What else can we look forward to? As manufacturers 

anxiously await a market recovery that may or may not 

take place in the next 12 months, we can anticipate a 

continued focus on cost reduction right across the PV 

value chain. 

Depending on who you read, module price costs 

are currently falling at a rate of 10 percent to 20 percent 

a year. This quest for cost reduction is leading to some 

interesting sources of innovation, such as replacing 

silver printing with copper plating (not something I 

believe we’ll see in 2012, but maybe a few years after). It 

is likely that interest in combination technologies, where 

a number of innovations are combined in the same cell to 

boost efficiency and drive down cost-per-watt, will grow. 

And in terms of deposition methods, watch out for 

alternatives to screen printing, such as ink-jet printing 

and metal jetting. Such techniques have been in the offing 

for years, and some could now start cropping up in reality. 

Witness, for instance, Q-Cells’ latest mono-crystalline 

high-performance cell, which is produced with a seedand-plate 

process where a very thin line of silver paste is 

printed and fixed on the cell, then electroplated to give 

a denser silver deposit that’s more conductive than the 

paste. 

Like the rest of the industry, at DEK we are also putting 

the current breathing space in the growth of the industry 

to good use, and working on research and development 

lines to support all of these areas of innovation. While we 

can’t be sure exactly what the coming year will hold, what 

we are sure of is that we are ready to help our customers 

deal with it. 


Will PV Shine again in 2012? 


Bangalore to host SOLARCON India 2012 from September 3 - 5. 

SOLARCON India 

2012, the fourth 

edition of India’s 

largest solar-focused 

technology and 

business event, will 

take place from 

September 3-5 in 

Bangalore for the 

first time. The event, 

organized by SEMI 

India, includes 

an exhibition, a 

conference and 

parallel technical 

events. 

Bangalore to host 

SOLARCON India 2012 

from September 3 - 5. 

Interview with 

Mr. Debasish Paul 

Choudhury - President, 

SEMI India 

The event focuses on the promise of affordable solar 

power in India. 

Located at the Bangalore 

International Exhibition Centre (BIEC), 

SOLARCON India 2012 provides a highprofile 

platform for industry, government, 

NGOs and other eco-system partners 

to come together to discuss and evolve 

plans to help the growth of the local solar 

industry. This year, the event has over 

100 exhibitors and expects 5,000 unique 

visitors. 

SOLARCON India 2012, certified 

by the U.S. Department of Commerce, 

is a premier forum to showcase the latest 

products, services and applications in the 

solar, photovoltaic and renewable energy 

fields in India. 

The event will be inaugurated by 

Dr.Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister of 

New and Renewable Energy, Government 

of India. James CP Chen, vice president, 

Solar Business Group, AUO Group, 

Taiwan; Dr. Martha Symko Davies, Solar 

business manager, NREL, USA; and 

William Polese, managing director, Lux 

Research Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., Singapore 

will deliver the Inaugural keynote 

addresses. Jagadish S. Shettar, Hon’ble 

Chief Minister of Karnataka will preside 

over the inaugural event. 

Tarun Kapoor, IAS, Joint Secretary, 

Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, 

Govt. of India will deliver a keynote 

address on “Jawaharlal Nehru National 

Solar Mission & State Solar Policies – 

Status Update and The Way Forward”. 

Key highlights of the event 

include: 

• CEO panel discussion on “Key 

Requirements of Short-Term and 

Long-Term Solar Manufacturing 

Sustainability in India” 

• CEO Forum on “Can India Reach 100 

GW Installed Solar Power Capacity 

by 2030?” 

• CFO Forum on “Solar Power 

Project Financing & Price/KWH 

of Solar Power — Setting Realistic 

Expectations” 

• “Manufacturing Cost Reduction” 

session 

• “The Indian PV Landscape by 2022” 

session 

• “Manufacturing Innovations in PV: 

Technology Outlook & Trends” 

session 

• Off-grid sessions: “Policy & 

Regulatory Enablers for Off-Grid 

Solar PV Growth in India” and 

“Rooftops, Micro Grids and other 

Off-Grid PV Applications.” 


Debasish Paul Choudhury, president, 

SEMI India, stated, “According to the 

Central Statistical Office’s “Energy 

Statistics 2012” report India’s renewable 

energy generation potential is roughly 

89,760 MW, of which Gujarat accounts for 

14 per cent followed by Karnataka with 12 

per cent (11,071 MW). 

Karnataka Renewable Energy 

Development Limited (KREDL), 

Karnataka’s proactive renewable energy 

agency, has set a target of installing 200 MW 

of solar projects by 2016 and has plans to 

set up a 1,000 hectare solar park on Public- 

Private Partnership (PPP) model by 2013. 

SEMI is backing the KREDL initiative 

by bringing the best professionals from 

the industry, government, academia and 

financiers to discuss key implementation 

aspects and challenges ahead for both On- 

Grid and Off-Grid Solar.” 

In addition, SOLARCON India 

2012 will feature a short skill development 

course on “Thin Film PV Technology 

— Cells to Systems,” in technical 

collaboration with the NCPRE (National 

Centre for Photovoltaic Research and 

Education) based at IIT- Bombay during 

September 4-6. 

SOLARCON India 2011, which 

was held between November 9 and 

11 at Hyderabad Convention Centre, 


Hyderabad, India 

had 114 exhibiting 

companies. The event 

was attended by around 

3,500 visitors including 

delegates. 

Debasish Paul 

Choudhury shares 

more details on the 

event and about the 

Indian solar industry 

with Usha Prasad. 

Excerpts: 

GST: What’s 

new and 

unique about 

this year’s 

SOLARCON 

India event? 

Debasish: The event has 

been certified by the US 

Dept. of Commerce, 

and we will set up a 

dedicated “US Pavilion” 

on the expo floor. 

For the first time, SOLARCON India 

would host a small “Taiwan Pavilion” on 

the show floor, and we would be hosting a 

Taiwan Delegation consisting of 6-8 solar 

PV technology companies during the 

show; organised by ITRI IEK and SEMI 

Taiwan. 

We have received an encouraging 

support from Karnataka Renewable 

Energy Development Limited (KREDL), 

Karnataka Electricity Regulatory 

Commission (KERC) and Dept. of 

Industries, Govt. of Karnataka. 

GST: Kindly brief us about 

the short skill development 

course on “Thin Film PV 

Technology — Cells to 

Systems” to be organised 

during SOLARCON India 

2012? 

Debasish: The short skill development 

course on “Thin Film PV Technology — 

Cells to Systems” is organised in technical 

collaboration with National Centre for 

Photovoltaic Research and Education 

(NCPRE) at IIT Bombay. The course 

Bangalore to host SOLARCON India 2012 from September 3 - 5. 

presenters will be from the industry, 

research and IIT Bombay. 

This short course is for - 

* Professionals from the solar industry, 

research or academia 

* Components and systems designers 

and integrators 

* Science graduates/engineers or 

students in electrical or related 

engineering 

GST: In your view, how is 

the solar market doing 

in India? How far has 

the industry progressed 

towards achieving the 

target set by the JNNSM? 

Debasish: The solar market in India is at 

an inflection point now. Solar capacity 

additions in the country have been 

growing at breakneck speeds since the 

inception of the National Solar Mission, 

ably supported by the Gujarat State Solar 

Policy, which highlights the impact of a 

strong state specific solar policy. The solar 

capacity in the country which once stood at 

about 20 MW (2010) has recently crossed 

the 1 GW mile stone in June 2012. With 

more states such as Karnataka, Madhya 

Pradesh etc., coming up with their own 

policies, the capacity additions in the 

country are likely to grow at exponential 

rates over the coming years. In addition 

to the state policies, RPOs are expected to 

act as one of the key catalysts to capacity 

additions in the short term. 

Sensing the promise of continued 

growth, many large as well as small 

enterprises took to solar PV manufacturing 

in hopes of garnering a huge chunk of this 

large pie. However, with global PV prices 

falling rapidly as well as the fragmented 

implementation of the domestic content 

requirement, various domestic solar PV 

manufacturers have had to scale down 

their operations or shut shop entirely. India 

has become a viable country to develop 

projects, but has failed in achieving the 

target of setting up a complete solar 

ecosystem. 

Overall, the solar industry in India 

today is in a deceleration mode due to a 

number of factors, both local and global. 


Success Story Morgan Solar: Challenging the sun 

Success Story 

Morgan Solar: 

Challenging 

the sun 

Solar energy, either thermal or 

photovoltaic, has become the 

fastest-growing alternative energy 

technology globally. It is popular because 

it provides individuals and corporations 

with the ability to make an individual 

effort towards reducing the effects of 

climate change. 

Since October 2003, Ontario has 

added more than 1,200 megawatts of 

new, renewable generation, including 

more than 150 solar projects of varying 

sizes, including residential systems and 

small arrays on commercial buildings, 

institutions and schools. 

In 2010 alone, Ontario installed 168 

megawatts of solar photovoltaic capacity, 

surpassing New Jersey as the second 

leading North American jurisdiction 

for new solar projects during that year. 

Ontario could soon surpass California 

in annual installations if recent growth 

rates continue. This is good news for 

investors who are interested in Ontario, 

as opportunities continually grow for 

renewable energy generators and for 

manufacturers of renewable energy 

products and services. 

One great example of the 

opportunities that abound for innovation 

and growth in Ontario is a firm called 

Morgan Solar. Still a start-up, Morgan 

Solar has nevertheless lured one of the 

world’s top solar industry executives to 

be its CEO and received financial backing 

from one of the world’s largest wind 

and solar energy firms. 

Morgan Solar’s made-in- 

Ontario breakthrough 

technology will soon start 

delivering competitively 

priced solar power – a 

mu lt i - bi l l i on - d ol l ar 

enterprise. 

“I’m serious,” says 

Morgan Solar president 

John Paul Morgan who 

started the Torontobased 

company in 2007, 

shortly after returning 

from a life-changing year 

in Africa. “We expect 

to be earning billions 

within the decade. The 

market is there.” 

Indeed, worldwide 

solar energy production 

has increased by nearly 

4,000 per cent in this 

century’s first decade and 

is expected to top $100 

billion next year. Much of 

that growth was spurred 

by incentive and subsidized pricing 

encouraged by environmentally sensitive 

governments. “But solar companies 

dependent on subsidies are not likely to 

survive the long run,” says Morgan. “We 

adopted an entirely different model.” 

From its inception, Morgan Solar’s 

goal was to provide solar power at prices 

competitive with other energy sources, or 

The company’s future is built 

on its innovative technology, 

cheaper materials and smarter 

production techniques. Morgan 

is a University of Toronto 

engineering graduate with a 

specialty in optics and a life-long 

fascination with solar power, 

heightened by service in the 

Democratic Republic of Congo 

with Médecins Sans Frontières 

as a hospital administrator. 

at grid parity. “We’re already there when 

it comes to high-priced markets such as 

California, the Middle East and island 

nations that rely on oil for electricity,” 

Morgan says. “We’re almost there with 

natural gas and we are on our way to 

matching coal.” 

The company’s future is built on its 

innovative technology, cheaper materials 

and smarter production techniques. 

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Morgan is a University of Toronto engineering graduate with a 

specialty in optics and a life-long fascination with solar power, 

heightened by service in the Democratic Republic of Congo with 

Médecins Sans Frontières as a hospital administrator. 

“In Africa, I saw how a lack of access to electricity and to 

affordable energy in general was a barrier to development and 

better lives for the people there,” says Morgan. “At the same time, 

I knew that a tremendous amount of energy from the sun is simply 

wasted on the ground. I felt that solar power’s technical problems 

were soluble. 

“Economical solar power is more than just liberating us from 

fossil fuels and delivering clean energy. It’s also an opportunity to 

provide less expensive energy that will take millions of people out 

of darkness. It’s a force for positive change.” 

After leaving Africa, Morgan started studying photovoltaics 

on his own. Within months he began securing patents for his 

unique way of concentrating sunlight. Morgan had developed a 

special opticlens that catches incoming light and directs it in a 

concentrated form to a high-efficiency solar cell. 

The lens and accompanying system is so powerful that the 

energy efficiency rate is 25 per cent, almost double the industry 

standard of about 14 per cent. 

Morgan’s groundbreaking discovery attracted the attention 

of American Asif Ansari, a legend in the solar power industry. 

Among Ansari’s 20 start-up successes in the cleantech and 

aerospace industries were four in solar energy. Once, he persuaded 

Google to invest US$10 million in one of his ventures, eSolar Inc., 

a California-based solar thermal technology powerhouse. When 

Ansari last year examined first hand, what Morgan Solar had 

achieved, he agreed readily to move to Toronto and takeon the 

company’s reins. “When I saw what they had achieved,” recalls 

Ansari, “I knew they were onto something, that this could be a 

real game-changer.” 

Ansari brought immediate international credibility to the 

small start-up. About the same time, Morgan Solar landed a second 

major investment from Iberdrola, Spain’s major energy company 

and a global leader in alternative energy. And last November, North 

American energy-delivery powerhouse Enbridge Inc. invested $10 

million in Morgan Solar, its first investment in solar technology. 

But Morgan Solar has even more than scientific leadership, 

much of it developed in collaboration with a lab at the University 

of Ottawa that sets it apart from the pack. For its smaller – and 

more efficient– Sun Simba solar panels, the company sought and 

found cheaper materials that worked as well or better than those 

used by competitors. And it rejected a customized manufacturing 

process for injection moulding commonly used to produce auto 

parts and televisions. 

Explains Morgan: “We are producing solar energy cheaper 

through vastly lower raw material costs, and the panels can be made 

through simple, automated processes at existing manufacturing 

facilities.” 

Another Morgan Solar advantage down the road – the 

panels are fully recyclable after their 20-year lifespan. 

Today, the company is focusing its sales efforts on large 

companies that have a major energy stake. It expects to announce 

a flurry of contracts throughout 2012, beginning in the spring 

and summer. Morgan says the company’s first customers will be 

outside Canada in jurisdictions where there are no subsidies for 

solar power. “We can stand on our own,” he says. 

Eventually, Morgan Solar wants to capture the consumer 

market. Declares Morgan: “We want to be on every roof top where 

the sun shines.” 

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New products for 

Solarlec named top solar 

panel retailer by global 

manufacturer 

Lancashire company Solarlec has 

been chosen by one of its suppliers to join 

a prestigious partnership scheme. 

USA-based solar panel supplier 

Sunpower has set up the partnership 

scheme to recognise its most trusted 

retailers across the world. 

Solarlec, one of Sunpower’s few 

authorised UK dealers, said it was 

honoured to accept its position in the 

scheme. 

Companies must meet strict 

requirements in order to gain entry 

to the partnership scheme, including 

giving Sunpower access to a number 

of installations of its products to carry 

out technical inspections on the level of 

workmanship displayed. 

Solarlec, winner of Burnley Small 

Business of the Year 2011, installs more 

than 1,200 panels every month across the 

UK 

Centrosolar online tool 

now also available 

internationally 

The German solar company 

Centrosolar is launching an Englishlanguage 

version of the Centrocheck 

planning tool to the international market. 

Centrocheck is now available to help 

installers plan solar installations in any 

country from Austria to Vietnam. It 

complements the already established 

tool for clients in North America where 


installers use a special online portal 

customized for that market with unique 

design and financing capabilities. Each 

country version automatically includes 

the solar panels, inverters and the countryspecific 

calculation basis available for use 

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installers and solar professionals, home 

owners can also use the free online tool 

to precisely plan individually-tailored 

photovoltaic systems based on Centrosolar 

panels. 

Centrocheck is the only planning 

system that comprehensively covers 

project design. The intuitive tool provides 

all the information necessary to plan, 

build and operate a photovoltaic system. 

Centrocheck can be used online under 

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be installed on the user’s computer. There 

are two different versions available: The 

basic version works without logging in 

and uses preset values for all calculations, 

making it particularly well-suited for 

home owners. 

SOLON accelerates shipping 

innovative SOLquick(TM) 

rooftop solution to solar 

installers 

SOLON Corporation, one of the 

largest providers of turnkey solar power 

plants and photovoltaic (PV) products in 

the U.S., has accelerated shipping its awardwinning 

SOLquick(TM) commercial 

rooftop system to the U.S. market. 

SOLquick’s innovative design 

integrates a frameless solar module and 

rack into one unit for a fast, easy and tool- 

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Commercial installers are 

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in Tucson, AZ. Over 900kW is currently 

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stores in New Jersey by Connecticutbased 

commercial integrator Greenskies 

Renewable Energy LLC. By the end of 

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cold storage facility in Oregon by Energy 

Wise, one of Oregon’s top installers and 

investors in solar energy. SOLON is also 

currently installing 151kW of SOLquick 

units on its own rooftop project for Deer 

Valley High School in Phoenix, AZ. 

ANTARIS SOLAR introduces 

new standalone, portable 

off-grid solar PV systems 

ANTARIS SOLAR, a leading 

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launched two new stand-alone, portable 

photovoltaic systems. The eKiss Box and 

the even smaller Mini eKiss Box can 

be used to generate power in off-grid 


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power requirements. Prices start at £900 

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KACO new energy – now 

serving Great Britain 

directly 

German solar inverter manufacturer 

KACO new energy has established a new 

service and customer support centre in 

Milton Keynes near London. The British 

team lead by David Hawkins offers 

clients and trade partners timely and 

direct service at the new, centrally located 

support centre. 

Through the establishment in 

Great Britain, KACO new energy now 

support their partners on location, and 

British end consumers profit from local 

service with competent contact partners. 

The branch includes a fully equipped 

warehouse, guaranteeing quick reaction 

times in service and after-sales support 

for partnering companies. It lies in the 

vicinity of various airports, and numerous 

British solar companies in the immediate 

neighbourhood offer excellent networking 

possibilities. 

With this new location, the German 

inverter manufacturer is establishing 

its presence in a further European PV 

market. After a somewhat turbulent start, 

the British market is now on a good path 

for KACO new energy, and the company is 

expecting a continuous rise in installation 

numbers in the coming years. The Powador 

TL3 series devices are in high demand, 

especially in the rising market segment of 

small commercial projects. 

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CentrosolarGlas develops 

thin solar glass for 

photovoltaic modules 

CentrosolarGlas GmbH & Co. KG 

has developed a particularly thin solar 

glass for photovoltaic modules. With 

solar glasses that are only 2.3 mm or 2.6 

mm thick the German solar glass expert 

has transferred another ground-breaking 

innovation in the area of cover glasses for 

photovoltaic modules and solar thermal 

collectors into series production. 

True to the motto “less is more” 

the Fürth-based company succeeded 

in reducing the minimum thickness 

by almost 30 percent at the same 

mechanical resistance thanks to process 

optimization. The thin glasses currently 

offered exclusively by CentrosolarGlas 

reduce the total weight of the modules, 

which simplifies the assembly and saves 

transportation and mounting costs. 

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thickness of only 2.3 mm and 2.6 mm 

is particularly suitable for glass-glass 

modules. Up to now, single pane safety 

glass could only be produced with a 

minimum thickness of 3 mm. 

The CENTROSOL thin glass offers 

the advantage of higher light transmission. 

It moreover extends the operating life of 

the PV modules because glass is more 

resistant to environmental effects than a 

plastic back sheet. 


New products for Manufacturers 

JinkoSolar modules pass 

PID Test at 65 degrees 

celsius 

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd., 

a leading global solar power product 

manufacturer, informed that the company’s 

modules passed potential induced 

degradation (PID) testing conducted by 

TUV-SUD and the Canadian Standards 

Association (CSA). 

During the testing period, solar 

modules were exposed to 1,000 volts 

of negative socket voltage under the 

condition of 65 degrees Celsius/85 percent 

relative humidity. In order to pass this 

extreme test, the maximum degradation 

of power output between initial and final 

measurement should not exceed 5 percent. 

Tested Jinko modules have successfully 

passed the stringent requirements set 

by TUV-SUD and the CSA to be PID 

resistant. 

While being exposed to hot and 

humid conditions, hundreds of volts can 

accumulate between the solar cell and the 

module frame affecting the power output 

of the entire solar system. This can lead 

to potential induced degradation (PID) 

in a module, resulting in power losses of 

up to 50 percent. The PID test conducted 

by TUV-SUD and the CSA underscores 

the importance of being PID certified and 

the effect it has on the life of JinkoSolar 

products. 

Austin Energy, HelioVolt 

installing first locally 

manufactured solar 

modules 

Austin Energy and Austin-based 

solar manufacturing company HelioVolt 


are collaborating on the first commercial 

install of locally manufactured solar 

modules in Austin on the roof of the nonprofit 

Yellow Bike Project. 

The project also is the first by 

Austin Energy to pilot and research 

leasing rooftop space at non-profit and 

commercial locations. Austin Energy will 

own the 12.4 kilowatt system that will 

deliver 16,125 kilowatt-hours of electricity 

annually into the grid. Austin Energy is 

paying Austin’s Yellow Bike Project $350 a 

year for the leased space. The organization 

is a volunteer-based advocacy group for 

bicycling that operates community bike 

shops and teaches bike mechanics and 

maintenance. 

The project also is a major step 

forward in the development of the 

burgeoning clean energy industry in 

Austin with the first solar modules 

installed in the city produced by a local 

solar manufacturing company. 

HelioVolt’s thin film solar modules 

are composed of Copper Indium Gallium 

Selenide (CIGS). CIGS solar material 

performs well in real world conditions 

such as off-angle installations, cloudy days, 

and module soiling. The glass laminate 

modules are compatible with existing 

industry installation tools and practices, 

and do not require complex and expensive 

custom mounting solutions. 

MPrime unit stands at 

cutting edge of PV solar 

technology 

MPrime, a subsidiary of Martifer 

Solar, has announced its investment in an 

innovation programme for its photovoltaic 

module production line at the company’s 

factory in Oliveira de Frades, Portugal. 


The factory, which had already 

received ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OSHAS 

18001 quality certification, now has an EL 

Tester to ensure greater quality control of 

the final product. 

This new technology, which was 

developed in partnership with MBJ 

Solution, makes it possible to discover 

hidden defects, which are impossible to 

detect without this type of equipment, 

ensuring a high quality standard of the 

products the company sells. 

The process of assembling the 

photovoltaic cells is another innovation on 

the production line. The MPrime modules 

are now made up of three ribbons, which 

improve the performance of the product 

throughout its lifecycle. 

Working with Saint-Gobain’s 

SolarBond® InFrame sealant and Nordson’s 

foaming equipment, a new framing 

system was develop that withstands 7,000 

Pa of mechanical loading pressure (800 

Pa correspond to an approximate wind 

speed of 130 Km/h). The MPrime Module 

passed the Heavy Snow Load Test carried 

out by TüvRheinland (the world standard 

for industrial certification and inspection) 

which guarantees greater strength in 

adverse weather conditions. 

Southwest Solar 

Technologies cites 

competitive advantages and 

market impact of new CPV 

technology 

Southwest Solar Technologies, 

Inc. has made significant advances 

in concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) 

technology that it believes will lead to major 

competitive advantages in the market. 




The company confirmed commencement 

of on-sun testing of its innovative CPV 

semi-dense array modules with integrated 

optics, thermal management, power 

conversion and data collection. This 

Alpha Testing phase is being conducted at 

the company’s Research Park in Phoenix, 

where CPV modules are currently being 

manufactured by the Company as part of 

its product development program. 

Specifically, the company said its 

module is capable of operating with nonuniform 

flux (concentrated sunlight) 

using a novel approach in secondary 

optics and power conversion, which for 

the first time enables the modular CPV 

to be integrated into a range of sizes of 

solar dishes and tower/heliostat collectors 

and is not captive to a particular design 

or system. 

As an alternative to other CSP the 

technology uses no water and provides 

an alternative to steam and other 

power generators. The system is high 

concentration and incorporates dual 

axis tracking for greater capacity, and 

utilizes CPV cells that are capable of 40% 

efficiency or more. Lower cost per kWh 

power will additionally result from the 

design focus on low cost components and 

manufacturing processes. 

Monier Group acquires 

technology for InDaX solar 

products from Schott Solar 

The Monier Group strengthens its 

position as a technology leader for the 

interface of PV products to the pitched 

roof and acquires Schott Solar’sInDaX 

technology for manufacture of roofintegrated 

photovoltaics. The contract was 

signed on 16 August 2012 and apart from 

the framing technology includes the rights 

to use the InDaX name as well as patents 

related to the product. Financial terms of 

the transaction were not disclosed. 

The system is an essential part 

of the so-called portrait roof and has 

already been launched in Monier markets 

in Germany, Italy and South Eastern 

Europe. Further market launches are 

planned for the United Kingdom and 

France in the course of the year. Through 

the acquisition Monier secures that both 

its own customers and customers of Schott 

Solar will continue to be able to be offered 

a premium in-roof product. “The InDaX 

allows Monier to tap into promising new 

distribution channels in the PV market. 

We are building on a technology that will 

allow us to more strongly benefit from a 

trend that sees solar systems becoming 

independent of feed-in-tariffs and being 

increasingly used for decentralised own 

consumption,” explained Jens Milnikel, 

director of the Business Line Solar Roof 

Systems. 

Experts from the business line and 

the Technical Centre of the Monier Group 

had already closely cooperated with 

Schott Solar for the market launch and 

further development of the InDaX system 

bringing in their leading roofing expertise. 

Monier will not take over the 

PV laminate production but rather 

build on partnerships with established 

manufacturers purchasing their systems as 

it does for its other photovoltaic systems. 

SolarWorld initiates 

technology upgrades 

to boost solar panels’ 

performance edge 

SolarWorld, the largest solar 

manufacturer in the Western Hemisphere, 

celebrated its fifth anniversary of 

revitalizing, expanding and staffing a 

formerly idle semiconductor wafer factory 

here by announcing new investments 

totalling $27 million to upgrade and 

replace several factory systems and debut 

technological advances that will boost the 

power output of its high-performance 

solar panels. 

Work to install new manufacturing 

systems through the first quarter of 

2013 will implement three technological 

advances fostered and tested by 

SolarWorld research-and-development 

specialists in Oregon and Europe. All three 

upgrades will increase the power output of 

SolarWorld’s photovoltaic cells – the light- 

sensitive building blocks of panels – to 

propel the company further ahead in its 

solar-technology leadership worldwide. 

For competitive reasons, SolarWorld will 

not detail the upgrades. The work will 

employ dozens of contractors’ employees, 

without affecting either the company’s 

Hillsboro workforce of about 1,000 or its 

total unit output. 

Yingli’smulticrystalline PV 

modules excel in Intertek’s 

PID test 

Yingli Green Energy Holding 

Company Limited, a leading solar 

energy company and one of the world’s 

largest vertically integrated photovoltaic 

manufacturers which markets its 

products under the brand “Yingli Solar”, 

has informed that its multicrystalline PV 

modules successfully passed the Potential 

Induced Degradation (PID) test conducted 

by Intertek Group plc (“Intertek”). This 

test was conducted to assess power 

output of the Company’s multicrystalline 

PV modules under severe conditions of 

high voltage, high temperature and high 

humidity. According to the test results, 

Yingli Solar modules ranked at the top of 

the class. 

Intertek is a leading provider of 

quality and safety solutions across a 

wide range of industries worldwide. The 

PID test was conducted under stringent 

conditions of 85 degrees Celsius, 85% 

relative humidity, and 1,000 volts of system 

voltage bias for a duration of 48 hours. 

The test results showed that the power 

degradation of Yingli Solar modules was 

lower than 1%. Intertek further tested 

Yingli Solar modules for a duration of 96 

hours, and found that the modules were 

still below the 1% degradation level. 


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