【正文】 s largest thin film manufacturing plex, capable of 10 million square meters per year. And this gigawattscale factory is only the first to e. Katsuga City, Nara and Sakai City, Osaka, Japan ? Thin film efficiency 9%, expecting 10% from GW factory line. ? Sharp powers more homes and businesses than any other solar mfg in the world. First mfgr to reach 2 GW cumulative production since mass production start in 1963 ? Memphis, TN – 100 MW manufacturing facility and SunTech Power ? BEIJING, Jan 12, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) ? China’s solar product maker SunTech Power 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。 Sam’s Clubs in CA. ? Since 1998, BP guarantees its modules for 25 years. ? BP Solar, part of BP Alternative Energy, is a global pany with about 2022 employees. With over 35 years of experience and installations in most countries, BP Solar is one of the world39。s biggest rooftop solar panels ? The largest rooftop solar power station in the world is being built in Spain. With a capacity of 12 MW of power, the station is made up of 85,000 lightweight panels covering an area of two million SqFt. ? Manufactured in rolls, rather like carpet, the photovoltaic panels are to be installed on the roof of a General Motors car factory in Zaragoza, Spain. ? General Motors, which plans to install solar panels at another 11 plants across Europe, unveiled the €50M ($68M) project yesterday. The power station should be producing energy by September. ? The panels will produce an expected annual output of million kilowatt hours (kWh) enough to meet the needs of 4,600 households with an average consumption of 3,30