Suntech Starts Shanghai Solar Factory
Suntech has announced that they will be building a new thin film plant in China. The company will be undertaking both R&D and manufacturing at the facility, which should begin operation next year. In 2009 it is hoped that they will produce solar cells with a combined capacity of 50MW.
Suntech is a big player in the building integrated photovoltaic products (BIPV), partly because of their acquisition of the MSK Corporation. Suntech was founded by Dr. Shi, a senior research scientist and the leader of the Thin Film Solar Cells Research Group in the Centre of Excellence for Photovoltaic Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
“While BIPV is currently a relati…
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Filed under: Main on May 31st, 2007