Taiwan

Auria Solar is negotiating with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to establish a 65.3 MW ‘micromorph’ thin-film PV module production line in Taiwan.

Solutia’s will increase performance films manufacturing capacity in Asia with the asset purchase of Taiwan-based conductive film manufacturer Aimcore Technology.

Taiwanese company Telecomps will provide OEM module assembly services for XsunX’s CIGSolar technology.

An AUO Optronics subsidiary has broken ground on its multicrystalline ingot and wafer production plant in Taiwan’s Chungkang Export Processing Zone.

Neo Solar Power posted its 10th consecutive month of increased revenue, reaching a new record high of approximately US$84.1 million for January.

Established on May 1, 1946, the Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) is a vertically integrated power utility involved in power generation, distribution, transmission and sales, and is the only retail power provider in Taiwan.

Green Energy Technology will keep its solar cell lines operational through the Chinese New Year due to the strong demand and need to fulfil orders. GET also said it had achieved its capacity expansion plans for 2010 and on target to meet previously guided expansion to 1.5GW in the second quarter of this year.

Taiwan reduced the feed-in tariffs for solar power for 2011 by approximately 30 per cent from 2010 levels. This is due to the falling cost of solar photovoltaics installation equipment. State-run Taiwan Power will now pay US$ 0.2518 per kilowatt-hour for power generated from ground mounted solar installations, compared with US$ 0.3821 for 2010, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said in a statement on January 28th. The 2011 price for roof-top solar power is as high as US$0.3546. Solar cell prices may decline 10 to 15 per cent this year, said Chang Ping-heng, chief executive officer of Motech Industries, Taiwan’s biggest solar cell maker by market value. Global annual capacity to produce solar cells may climb to as much as 30GW in 2011, Chang said December 1st. “Solar power costs may fall further,” Hwang Jung-chiou, vice minister of economic affairs, said in a press conference in Taipei today. Feed-in tariffs are at least US$0.3821 for PV solar panels installed in 2010, the Bureau of Energy said in a statement on its website in December 2009.

 

 

 

Taiwan will have its first offshore wind farm in Changhua County, central Taiwan by 2013.

Crossing Automation has completed installation of a material tracking system for a Taiwanese solar cell manufacturer. It consists of its Auto ID and automated tracking system software, Smart Storage asset tracking and Smart Storage racks. As part of the project, Crossing developed customized ATS software for solar cell carriers throughout the fab, carrier racks were incorporated with additional sensors to ensure proper placement on the rack, and the solar rack design and the layout itself was developed with input from the customer.

Neo Solar Power launched two new high-efficiency products, multi-crystalline Super17” and mono-crystalline “Perfect18”. Both products debuted in the “Intersolar 2010” in Munich, Germany in June 2010 and were highly appreciated by the customers.   The Hsinchu, Taiwan-based NSP’s newly launched 6 inch multi-crystalline “Super17” has breakthrough average conversion efficiency of above 17 per cent. “Super17” demonstrates panel makers the potential to increase power output to 250W, using 60-cell configuration. In addition, NSP’s 6 inch square mono-crystalline “Perfect18” with the “full square wafer” not only increases the active area by more than 2per cent compared to the conventional “pseudo-square” with the cut-off corners but also demonstrates extremely low light induced degradation. “Perfect18” has superior average efficiency of above 18%. With superior power density, “Perfect18” will be able to provide panel power output of 260W, using 60-cell configuration.   “These two ideal solutions are recognition of our efforts in strengthening R&D and enhancing production knowhow in producing high quality and high efficiency cells,” said Dr. Quincy Lin, Chairman of NSP.        

NSP will get 350 MW of solar wafers from GCL-Poly from the fourth quarter of 2010 to the end of 2013.   Neo Solar Power’s signing of a 3-year wafer supply contract with GCL –Poly further consolidated the long-term strategic relationships between both sides.   This long-term cooperation sustains both companies on production capacity and business operation, leading to significant expansion on global presence and a win-win situation.

Taiwanese engineering firm GIBSIN Engineers, Ltd. commissioned Chubu Electric to provide design support consulting services for its Taipower project. GIBSIN has been successful in its bid to conduct facility replacement work for Units No. 1 and 2 of Taiwan Power Company's Talin coal-fired thermal power plant.