Renewable budget tapped

Renewable budget tapped

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For more information contact: Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, 3-27-1 Rokkakubashi, Kanagawaku, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan. Tel: +81 45 4911701, www.kast.or.jp

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one

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of

rhe

worldwide,

Xynergy Corporation developed

through

method space

Zepeda,

Xynergy’s

CEO,

provider,

no doubt

licerally

soaring

voracious

and lucrative

sky-high

laser

with CSPIE.

this company toward

a

is

most

a quartz glass producrion

Komatsu

Ltd subsidiary,

Materials

LLC,

which

and

Renewable

ASiMl

will convert

companies

larrr

this year.

REC

to expand in the market for solar technology.

(Rillerica,

expects to start operations

Massachusetrs)

Power Corporation

(Rocklin,

wafers,

worldwide

componrnrs systems,

inro

Schorr is

of crystalline

and

prod-

marketing

all-inclusive

Schocr subsidiary,

to acquire

DuPont

producrion

facility

$28m

of

phorovoltaic

Schort

Lithorec,

Photomasks’

phoroblank

in Poughkeepsie,

in cash, $2m

is

DuPont

wirh

Photomasks

agreement Schorr,

develop

is entering

for commercial

and a strategic

advanced

Chairman

micro-imaging

manufacture

S. Harchanko

ro conclude

for

conrinued

studied

Moseh

I,akr

of Ai! Technology

srartj

marker

ASiMI

dis-

at rhe Moses Lake plant.

inro

of converting

a plant

product

solar polycryslalline

worked

co develop

a stable

silicon. supply

to

REC

has

network

of

Portable solar simulator

spectrum.

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developed

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normalised

offers AM0

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with

and a mosaic

energy indutrry At rhc NEC.

Energy

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of phoroblanks Lithotec

AC,

phoroblank

Photovoltaics Bulletin

Schott

The solar simulator

Lithotec

capabiliries

to

operates

a

recently

facility

in a portable

solar absorptances

ar Poughkeepsie.’

producrion

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in

of materials. either

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is inrcnded instrument

as the illumthar

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for the

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facility

Trade Associarion,

whose

rhe solar water heating

mcmbcrs

measures of samples

because simularors

do not cover rhc wavelengrh

range

come

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For more information contact: British Photovoltaic Association, National Energy Centre, Davy Avenue, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes MK5 8NG, UK.Tel: +44 1908 442291, Email: [email protected]

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solar and renew-

able energy and energy conservation

budgets

are reported to have paid for the cost of printing the White House National Documents order

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business.

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through

the National

industry

spectral irradiance as that of sunlight, outside

to customers

has recently

to

up to adequarely

conservation

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office

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Anorhcr solar simulator

chaired

Energy Centre (NEC) in Milton Keynes.

copies of rhe Whire

as a gray-body

- the substrates

organisations,

its head

The US Energy Department’s

silicon supply.

and accurate

Association,

rhe

dedicated

For more information contact: Michael Kerschen, President, ASiMI, Moses Lake, WA 98837, USA. Tel: +I 509 766 9326. Reidar Langmo, President, Renewable Energy Corporation AS, PO Box 280, N1323 H@vik, Norway. Tel: +47 67815250.

portability

to jointly

has 45 member

said, ‘We will focus on delivering

its exceptional

.I&

Inc. fol-

by Rod Hacker of Halcrow Group and which

providing

and

venture

of depressed

the possibility

The British Photovoltaic

by rhr

the granular

semiconducrors,

plant

polycrystalline

silicon. agrecmenr

parricipation.

production

ASiMl

Lakr.

development The

the backdrop

temperature,

solurions

radiation)

Space Center.

gearing

in Moses

will finance

for the International

a long-rerm phoroblanks

of DuPonr

rhcrmal

for aerospace.

filtered lamp output has the same normalised

our core phoromask will apply

(especially

Photomasks,

and CEO

Peter Kirlin,

Schort

Against

to

company.

capiral.

A special-purpose

alliance

phoroblanks

of

also bc used to measure

and marerials

relocated

in stock and up to

used to make photomasks.

upgraded

Corporation

New York

%12m in stock over the next two years. supply

silicon and silane

will be pooled.

Another

paying

Applied

and thin-film

sales

Inc

rhe joint venrure.

and production

cells and modules,

uction,

Schort

working

conditions in

GmbH

Americas

California).

to have equal rights in managing Developmenr

Solar

and

is co

of components

For more information contact: Kennedy Commercial Technology Office, USA. Tel: +I 321867 6224.

ultra-

silicon

with 50:5O equity

based in Alzenau,

ASE

instrument

New address for UK PVA

polycrystalline

plan

Glas in Mainz are to set up a joint venture,

RWE

The properties

properties

Kennedy

Silicon

its plant

to produce

The

provide

subsidiary

standard.

or dcviarc from

The work was done by David G. (:randall

Advanced

Energy

establish a joint-venture

polycrystalline

integrating

radiative

John

manufactures

h’Igh- purity ’ polycrystalhne

In Germany, RWE Group in Essen and Schott

its

ASTM

measure rhe radiative

of coarings

Wafer AS, have signed a letter of intent

Solar and glass ventures

(Alzcnau),

plant in

REC secures sililcon

Washington

mid-2002,

rhe

not durable

insrrument,

rhe ISS, bur ir could

(REC) of Norway, a main shareholder in Scan

For more information contact: Raquel Zepeda, Xynergy Corporation, 269 S. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CAgo212, USA. Tel: +I 310 274 0086. Email: irQxynergycorp.com

The new company

I 57 nm phololitho.

For more information contact: RWE AG, Opernplatz 1, D-45128 Essen, Germany. Tel: +49 20112 15095, Email: bill.mcandrewsQrwe.com. Schott Glas, Hattenbergstrasse lo, D-55122 Mainz, Germany. Tel: +49 6131660.

gas,

market.’

RWE Schott Solar GmbH,

crystals,

are too power-hungry,

nm),

commented,

‘We are very excited about working As an energy

suppliers

fluoride

2800

enough for a portable

of tapping

satellite

transmission. Raquel

US

to become

phoroblank

in calcium

for 193 nm and

It also operates

is to acquire Corporate

an innovative

power

largest

Lithotec

Jena, Germany,

Space Power Industries & Electric, which has solar

Schotr

leading

key material

Solar power tapped by laser transmission

Expanding

Germany.

production

House

to print

the adminisrrarion Congress

ro cut

efficiency

research

was tapping

its energy

was also occupied rhe

renewable

budgets

‘rencwables’

plan and explain

it,

in urging and

rnerg!

by more than 50%.

May 2002