Soitec is an international manufacturing company, a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials at the frontier of the most exciting energy and electronic challenges. Soitec’s products include substrates for microelectronics (most notably SOI : Silicon-on-Insulator) and concentrating photovoltaic systems (CPV). The company’s core technologies are Smart Cut™, Smart Stacking™ and Concentrix™, as [...]

Würth Solar GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 1999 with the aim of building up Europe’s first commercial production of CIS solar modules. The company is a joint venture between Würth Electronic GmbH & Co KG and the Centre for Solar and Hydrogen Research (ZSW). The Copper Indium Selenide (CIS) thin-layer technology was perfected [...]

Pramac Ecopower is a division of the Pramac SpA Group, located in Balerna (Chiasso), Switzerland. The company manufactures mono- and polycrystalline modules and started with the production of amorphous/microcrystalline thin-flm solar modules at their 30 MW factory in July 2009. For 2010, 25 MW of production is reported. PRAMAC Ecopower produces and markets "renewable energy" [...]

G24 Innovations Limited (G24i), headquartered in  Cardiff, Wales, manufactures and designs solar modules based on Dye Sensitized Thin-film (DSTF) technology. In 2007, production of dye sensitized solar cells with a roll-to-roll process, started. First commercial sales took place in 2009. G24i utilizes the latest breakthrough in material science and nanotechnology creating a new class of [...]

Sunways AG was incorporated in 1993 in Konstanz, Germany, and went public in 2001. Sunways produces polycrystalline solar cells, transparent solar cells and inverters for PV systems. In 2010, the company produced 98 MW. Sunways opened its second production facility with an initial production capacity of 30 MW in Arnstadt, Germany, in 2005, which was [...]

Solland Solar is a Dutch-German company and was registered in 2003. At the end of 2004 the construction of the factory went underway and start-up of production was in September 2005. At the end of 2007, production capacity was 60 MW and increased to 170 MW in the first half year of 2008. Solland had [...]

Hanwah Solar One (www.hanwha-solarone.com)  was established in 2004 as Solarfun Power Holdings, by the electricity meter manufacturer, Lingyang Electronics, the largest Chinese manufacturer of electric power meters.  In 2010, the Korean company, Hanwha Chemical, acquired 49.99% of the shares and a name change was performed in January 2011. The company produces silicon ingots, wafers, solar [...]