Huge solar business opportunities await in Taiwan with its position as the world’s second-largest solar cell maker. Great prospects blossom on July 13 with the Taiwan-organized seminar The Taiwan Solar Energy Industry Outlook & Renewable Energy Business Alliance Seminar at the show venue of Intersolar North America at Moscone Convention Center.
Organized by TAITRA, SEMI, and Taiwan Trade Center, San Francisco, this seminar opens the big picture on the Taiwan GREEN industry and its economical operations with the USA. It will introduce the solar industry’s background, strengths, trends, and innovative products and technologies in Taiwan and Asia.
This is the perfect place for those devoted to the solar energy industry to learn about Taiwan’s new alternative energy & environmental solutions. It will also offer a special focus on PV Taiwan—the largest solar energy trade show in Taiwan—which will showcase the latest innovations in comprehensive PV products during October 5–7, 2011. This show lets you explore how the Taiwan solar industry can help your business.
PHOTON International indicates that the annual production of solar cells grew by 118% in 2010, reaching a capacity of 27.2GW. Combined solar cell shipments of China and Taiwan in 2010 accounted for 62.2% globally. Asia is the No. 1 region for solar cell exports and will continue in this position in the future.
With a long track record and strong government support, Taiwan has developed a robust environmental industry known throughout Asia. Taking advantage of Taiwan’s strengths in semiconductor and flat panel manufacturing, Taiwan’s solar industry is equipped with world-class manufacturing capability, excellent industry infrastructure, and strong R&D talent. This is the gateway & procurement hub for the Asia Pacific region.
Taiwan, with decades of hi tech growth, can open many new pathways. Its unique model of industry clusters and vast investment in R&D presents greater quality choices for the USA at competitive prices. Therefore, the organizers wish to show Taiwan’s emphasis on the North American market by holding this seminar and to help local manufacturers and buyers find business opportunities with Taiwan.
PV Taiwan already has registered 262 exhibitors who will use 764 booths – a 22% increase on last year's show. And this year's PV Taiwan will build upon last year's success, which attracted more than 12,000 visitors including many professionals and buyers who traveled from more than 50 nations, including Germany, the US, Japan, Australia, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and China. Visitors can scout from leading firms including GINTECH, MOTECH, E-ton, NeoSolar, ROTH & RAU, GCL, OCI, LDK, Dupont, Powercom and Sun Well. And the list is still growing! The show gives visitors a comprehensive overview of Taiwan's industrial cluster, photovoltaic materials, silicon wafers, solar cells, modules, systems, HCPV, DSSC, CIGS and BIPV, applied products, production equipment, testing and analysis equipment, and certification services.
Discover the latest breakthroughs and get briefed on PV Taiwan at The Taiwan Solar Energy Industry Outlook & Renewable Energy Business Alliance Seminar. This is the best seminar for those eager to explore the new green frontier of production and open a vast window on Taiwan’s solar industry. Attend this seminar to make Taiwan’s advantages yours!
2011年7月11日星期一
2011年6月6日星期一
GE Buys Stake In Solar Power Plant Builder eSolar, Licenses Technology
Does General Electric chief Jeffrey Immelt aim to be the new sun king?
GE made another move into the nascent solar industry on Monday, taking a stake in California solar power plant builder eSolar and licensing its technology.
The global behemoth said it will integrate eSolar’s solar thermal technology into its new 510-megawatt, high-efficiency natural gas-powered plant, the FlexEfficiency 50, which GE unveiled in May.
In April, GE said it would build the United States’ largest solar panel factory, moving to compete with industry leaders such as First Solar as well as low-cost Chinese manufacturers.
The FlexEfficiency 50 is designed to ramp up and down quickly in response to fluctuations in energy production from intermittent sources of renewable energy such as wind farms and solar power plants. GE said integrating eSolar’s technology will boost a FlexEfficiency power station’s efficiency from 61 percent to 70 percent.
“When we look at the long-term future of power generation, we see the importance of integrating natural gas and renewable energy sources in new and innovative ways to provide energy that is cleaner, more cost effective and more reliable,” Paul Browning, chief of GE’s thermal products division, said in a statement.
GE will also build standalone solar power plants that deploy eSolar’s “power tower” technology. The investment, the size of which was not disclosed, is a boost to eSolar, a Pasadena, Calif., startup founded by serial technology entrepreneur Bill Gross.
Gross and his colleagues devised algorithms and imaging technology to control thousands of small mirrors called heliostats that focus the sun’s rays on a water-filled boiler atop a tower. The heat creates steam that drives an electricity-generating turbine.
ESolar built a 5-megawatt demonstration power plant in the desert northeast of Los Angeles in 2009 and subsequently signed a deal with NRG Energy to build projects in California and elsewhere.
When eSolar was unable to obtain federal loan guarantees to finance construction of the NRG projects, the deal fell apart and NRG replaced its solar thermal technology with photovoltaic panels like those found on residential rooftops.
Gross previously told me that he never really wanted to get into the power plant business, preferring to license eSolar’s technology to deep-pocketed developers who could take on the onerous tasks of licensing and financing multibillion-dollar solar projects.
MetCap Energy Investments, a Turkish investor and power plant builder, joined GE in making the investment in eSolar. The first generation of the FlexEfficiency is designed for the European market and MetCap’s involvement could signal a move into Asian and Middle Eastern markets.
GE made another move into the nascent solar industry on Monday, taking a stake in California solar power plant builder eSolar and licensing its technology.
The global behemoth said it will integrate eSolar’s solar thermal technology into its new 510-megawatt, high-efficiency natural gas-powered plant, the FlexEfficiency 50, which GE unveiled in May.
In April, GE said it would build the United States’ largest solar panel factory, moving to compete with industry leaders such as First Solar as well as low-cost Chinese manufacturers.
The FlexEfficiency 50 is designed to ramp up and down quickly in response to fluctuations in energy production from intermittent sources of renewable energy such as wind farms and solar power plants. GE said integrating eSolar’s technology will boost a FlexEfficiency power station’s efficiency from 61 percent to 70 percent.
“When we look at the long-term future of power generation, we see the importance of integrating natural gas and renewable energy sources in new and innovative ways to provide energy that is cleaner, more cost effective and more reliable,” Paul Browning, chief of GE’s thermal products division, said in a statement.
GE will also build standalone solar power plants that deploy eSolar’s “power tower” technology. The investment, the size of which was not disclosed, is a boost to eSolar, a Pasadena, Calif., startup founded by serial technology entrepreneur Bill Gross.
Gross and his colleagues devised algorithms and imaging technology to control thousands of small mirrors called heliostats that focus the sun’s rays on a water-filled boiler atop a tower. The heat creates steam that drives an electricity-generating turbine.
ESolar built a 5-megawatt demonstration power plant in the desert northeast of Los Angeles in 2009 and subsequently signed a deal with NRG Energy to build projects in California and elsewhere.
When eSolar was unable to obtain federal loan guarantees to finance construction of the NRG projects, the deal fell apart and NRG replaced its solar thermal technology with photovoltaic panels like those found on residential rooftops.
Gross previously told me that he never really wanted to get into the power plant business, preferring to license eSolar’s technology to deep-pocketed developers who could take on the onerous tasks of licensing and financing multibillion-dollar solar projects.
MetCap Energy Investments, a Turkish investor and power plant builder, joined GE in making the investment in eSolar. The first generation of the FlexEfficiency is designed for the European market and MetCap’s involvement could signal a move into Asian and Middle Eastern markets.
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