ieee TSMC also announced plans to ‘add a second phase fo te facity and ‘expand CIGS production to more than OOM, employing around 2,000 staf at the facity in Taichung’ Cantal Tawan ‘Solance Park, hame to is leading-c0ge semiconductor and newiy-announced foray nto he LED market First-phase equipment move-in ‘was 8a 10 De planned for the second quarter of 2011, wth plans to achieve intial volume production of 200M por yar in 2012. No timeines were given Tor the larger, second-phase capacity expanson "ihe st CIGS faolity was sad to be 4110,000m? in size with a production area of 78,000me SunEdison signs MOU with Korean province to develop 400MW of solar PV power plants Ina potential deal that would swart the scale of the company’s previous dovelopmont projects, MEMC ‘subsidiary SunEdison has signed a memorandum of understanding with tne Gyeongsangnam-o provincial ‘governmant for the establishment of 200MW of PV power piants in the ‘southeastern Korean provines. The noneinaing MOU, which is subject 10 negotaton and completion of defnitve ‘agreements, could lead te the wnizaton ‘ puDle land and building roottops te ‘dovelog and install the PY systems The provincial government said it will suppor Suneaison in securing the proper land oF ouicing aroas ana in completing the authorization ang permission processes. The prolects wil be completed by the end of 2073. No financial dotalls of the proposed doa) wore dscased, Direct Grid gets CE, VDE certification for utility-grade solar PV microinverter Direct Grid Technologies has received (GE and VDE0126-1-1 certification for iis DGM-8460 Series viity-grade ‘grid tie phetovoltaic microinverter www.py-tech.org, designed for large commercial and solar farm installations. The inverter wil be distributed in Europe italy through ‘OEM partner One Network Energies In Franco, according to Direct Grid, with adgitional partner agreements near finaization and set to be announced In the near nu. Power-One to build 1GW inverter production plant in Phoenix Inverter company Power-One has ‘chosen Phoonx, AZ, as the site for is new manufacturing fait. Tho pian wa produce the company’s PV and wing inverters, ncudirg single- (26K) and three-phase sivng inverters, as well as NEMA 38 250KW, 200KW, and 400K ‘central ivertas, Tha estimated cost of the new plant was not csclesea. ‘Manufacturing at the Arizona facity wil bg 9 October and annual verter production capacity at the silo is ‘expected to reach 1GW by ma-2011 Power-One has recently expanded ks \wordwae production capac wth the ination of Canadian manufacturing and the expansion of ils European lant, which wil resut in more than 4GW of Inverter eapacty coming online by year's ‘nds ‘SunEdison wins contract for 14.5MW plant on Davis- Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona [Adcing tothe company’s evee-expanaing portfolio of large-scale instalations, ‘SunEdison has won the contract {© provide a 14.5MW ground-mounted Solar power installation at the Davis Monthan Ar Force Base (OMAFB) n Tucson, Arizona, The agreement wil ‘se0 Sunedson look ater the financing, ‘design, construction, operation and mamntenance of the ~130 acre ste, \whien, upon completion, wil prove 3 ‘uch a8 35% of OMAFB'S energy naods SunEison nas also entered into a long-term ground lnase agraement wth DMAFB for the use of thar land, and in rotun, wi provide the DMAFB with loctriity supaly ata fixed rata Gigawatt scale: CEC approves Solar Millennium’s planned 1GW Blythe CSP power plant The Caifornia Energy Commission has given iis unanimous approval to Solar Millennium to build and operate Biytne Solar Powar Project in Fiverside County, 8 planned 1GW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant shat would bo the largest solar generating station in the world. Construction on the frst pai of four planned 250MW paratolc-treugh CSP sections § scheduled to bagi by ‘he end of te year Although the CEC approval was critica, the company must sill scure {2 "Racord of Decision” approving the project's “Right of Way Grant” from the Federal Bureau of Lang Management, hich 's expected to occur this al The Solar Trust of America projact development subsidiary sald it's also ‘ctvaly pursuing complation of francing withthe U.S. Bapartmont of Energy Loan {Guarantee Program forthe ina SOON ‘hase ofthe project. ‘The project wll generate approxmateyy 2500 jobs ouing tho consiusion pores ‘and create mare than 200 permanent Jobs once the 1GW facility ie fuly (operational, according to the company. ‘Once completed, the dry-cooled CSP plant will produce enough energy annual to Supply mere than 300,000 homes Solar Trust says it has nine utilty. scale solar thermal projects in advanced stages of davotoament in Calfornia and Neva ‘The Blythe plant is the third major (OSP farm to gain CEC approval recerty, ‘allowing tne recent go-ahaads given ta NoxtEra Enorgy’s proposad 250MW Beacon project and tne 250MW Sonar er oa tesCNP CNPV SOLAR POWER SA The bestifrom the sun «a Customer Driven Product Portfolio Market Focused European Insurance ARC with High Transmission Superstrate > 95% Industry Leading Snow Loading Capacity Proven Key Raw Materials Selection 100% Electro Luminescence Pre-screening 10 Years Workmanship Warranty Capacity 300MWp and Expanding... 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