【正文】 er Holdings Co., Ltd. () recently laid off 800 workers or 10 percent of its total employees and postponed its previous plan on recruiting 2,000 people, said Shi Zhengrong, chairman and CEO. ? SunTech delayed plan to expand production capacity to GW in 2022, which requires 2,000 more employees. ? Plants in Wuxi and other areas are in normal operation with more than 50% capacity running, pared with 85% prior to financial meltdown. ? SunTech has received more than 800 MW of orders in 2022 including 650 MW from Europe. 2022 overall orders of 500 MW. SunTech Power ? Sales $ 2022, 2022 profitable ? Employees: 6784 ? STP:NYSE ? Wuxi, China ? Worlds largest silicon cell maker ? Average conversion efficiency rates of their monocrystalline and multicrystalline silicon PV cells % and % respectively ? 10 May 2022 announces plan to build manufacturing plant in US, now shopping states for incentives Kyocera Solar ? US Solar Division – Scottsdale, AZ ? Subsidiary of Kyocera, Kyoto, Japan (KYO:NYSE) $13B 2022 ? 2022 broke ground for new plant in Tianjin City, China to expand there from 60 MW to 240 MW by 2022. First one in China ‘03 ? 2022 total production capacity to be 650 MW from Japan, Mexico, the Czech Republic and Tianjin. ? Technology built on knowledge of fine ceramics, with metals, plastics, and electronics developed for copiers and printers First Solar ? TEMPE, (BUSINESS WIRE)Feb. 24, 2022 First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced it reduced its manufacturing cost for solar modules in the fourth quarter to 98 cents per watt, breaking the $1 per watt price barrier. ? 2022 Began full mercial operation. Manufacturing capacity has grown to more than 500 MW in 2022 and will double in 2022 to more than 1 GW, the equivalent of an averagesized nuclear power plant. ? Escalating volumes acpanied by a rapid reduction in manufacturing costs. Manufacturing costs have declined from over $3 per watt to less than $1 per watt. Further significant cost reductions are possible. ? First Solar has industry’s first and only prehensive prefunded, endoflife module collection and recycling program, recycling more than 90% of each collected module into new products. (A serious issue due to CadmiumTelluride) ? High throughput, automated lines that integrate each production step, from CdTe semiconductor deposition to final assembly and test, in one continuous process. This advanced manufacturing process transforms a piece of glass into a plete solar module in less than hours. First Solar ? Sales $ 2022, $504M 2022, profitable ? Employees: 3524 ? Tempe, AZ ? FSLR:NASDAQ Motech Industries ? Modern Technology for a Sustainable World ? Founded 1981, Motech Solar started 1997 ? 2022 Publicly trades 6244: Taiwan Exchange ? 2022 8th largest manufacturer 272 MW crystalline and multicrystal silicon solar cells ? Plants in Tianan,Taiwan and Kunshan, China ? 2022 Sales $691M, profitable ? 1,331 employees Shell dumps wind, solar and hydro power in favor of biofuels ? Shell will no longer invest in renewable technologies such as wind, solar and hydro power because they are not economic, the AngloDutch oil pany said today. 17 Mar 09 ? Sold US operations to SolarWorld Germany SolarWorld AG ? SWV: Frankfurt exchange ? 1,825 employees ? Bonn, Germany with production in Freib and Sweden ? 2022 acquired assets from Shell Solar which had been largest US solar products maker (fka Arco Solar and Siemens Solar) – Camarillo, CA and Vancouver, WA ? 2022 acquired Komatsu silicon wafer production facility Hillsboro, OR ? Single and multicrystalline silicon cells Sun Power ? Founded 1985, purchased by Cypress Semiconductor in 2022, spun out in 2022. SPWRA and SPWRB NASDAQ ? HQs in San Jose and Geneva, Switzerland ? 12 polysilicon solar cell line in Philippines with capacity 314 MW/yr ? Expansion plan for 1 GW capacity by 2022 ? High efficiency cells: 2123% – PGamp。E plans 250 MW facility in CA by 2022 – FPL DeSoto Cty 35 MW facility due to open 2022 – Nellis 14 MW facility on line ? Sales: $ for 2022, $775M for 2022 profitable ? Employees: 5,400 SunPower Solar Cell Energy Conversion Devices / United Solar Ovonics ? ENER:NASDAQ ? Rochester Hills, MI ? Amorphous silicon thin film process on stainless steel ? Over 20 years, manufacturing capacity increased from 500 KW to 25 MW/yr ? Now 3 miles/day ? Sales $255M for 2022, $114M for 2022, slight profit 2022 ? Employees: 1090 Ovonics Rollroll Process Silikin ? Since 2022, SILIKEN has obtained a significant share on the Spanish PV market and has installed more than 160 MW of solar PV energy, = 240 GWh, the electricity consumption of more than 63,595 homes. ? Number of employees: Currently 700 people. Valencia, Tenerife and Albacete, Spain and San Diego, CA ? Sales: €152 million ($207 million) in 2022. ? Peak power manufactured: has bee one of the main manufacturers of PV modules, supplying 92 MW to the market in ‘08. Some Questions ? Will ‘peak minerals’ (rising cost due to limits in availability) limit growth of thin film and third generation solar cells? ? Will demand growth in China and India limit growth in US? ? How about the impact of other national / regional subsidies? ? How will financial meltdown impact solar cell business? ? What peting technologies would upset the solar industry? ? How will cost and efficiency of 2nd and 3rd generation solar cells impact the businesses built on 1st generation technology?