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nehme diese Meldung mal zum anlaß auch einen Malaysia-Thread einzurichten und nehme Singabpur mit dazu;

in den beiden Ländern sind derzeit mindestens aktiv:

REC mit dem integrierten Riesenwerk in Singapur
Q-Cells mit der neuen Zellfertigung
Flextronics als OEM-Modulfertiger für Q-Cells
SunPower mit Fab2
FirstSolar mit seinem größten Produktionsstandort
(geplant) Tokuyama mit seinem neuen SI-Werk

wer weiß noch mehr?

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20 September 2010
News / Business
Malaysia sees solar sector recharging economy

Kuala Lumpur, September 18 - Amid the gloom of bad news on the stagnating Malaysian economy, the solar industry has become an unexpected bright spark with the country now ranked as the third-largest maker of solar parts, with 11% of global market.

In the last three years, foreign investments in this sector totalled RM12.3 billion (S$5 billion) and created 10,000 new jobs, Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry Mukhriz Mahathir said.

‘There is a lot of potential in this area as only a few countries have the manufacturing capacity. It is truly a sunrise industry,’ he told The Straits Times.

He said that of the world’s top six solar equipment manufacturers, three have set up plants in Malaysia.

‘That was an unexpected achievement,’ he said, adding that Malaysia had capitalised on its existing strengths in semiconductors.

Malaysia has identified the solar industry as a new growth sector following a growing global demand for clean sources of energy, rising costs of conventional fuel and technological improvements that helped popularise solar energy.

It is among the sectors earmarked to pull the manufacturing sector to a higher level, as part of Malaysia’s drive to double incomes in 10 years and propel the country into the ranks of high-income nations.

Malaysia is now the third-largest producer of solar components, after China and Germany. It holds 11 per cent of the global market share.

This sector is part of the new economic roadmap to be unveiled by the government next week. The roadmap has identified 12 economic areas of focus, and 131 specific projects that can drive new economic growth.

The government is attempting to restructure an economy that has stagnated in recent years as Malaysia’s low-cost model lost out to cheaper destinations.

Experts have said that Malaysia’s headstart in manufacturing 25 years ago had failed to progress beyond the assembly plant process. It did not move into product development or upstream into building components, as it should have.

The United Nations’ World Investment Report, released recently, shows that foreign direct investment fell by 80 per cent last year from the previous year. The figures have since picked up for the first half of this year.

Mr Mukhriz said a different approach is being taken now, as evident with the solar industry which was targeted by the government.

Foreign manufacturers are being encouraged to venture beyond the assembly process, and to collaborate with local universities on research and development.

The big global solar companies in Malaysia include First Solar, Q-Cells and SunPower. These firms are based in the United States, Norway and Germany, and their plants are in Kedah, Selangor, Malacca and Sarawak.

He said three new players have moved upstream to set up plants in material and wafer fabrication, and one has set up collaboration with a local university.

‘It’s a new technology, and the kind that we want,’ he said.

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IBC SOLAR brings solar power to Borneo


Posted by Debasish Choudhury on 22 September 2010 at 12:04


Since mid-July 2010, a photovoltaic system has provided around 50 Malaysian families in Borneo with environmentally friendly power. IBC SOLAR Malaysia and their project partner, Carbon Capital Corporation, installed a 20kWp capacity solar system for a longhouse in which the families live. IBC SOLAR took over the engineering and delivery of the system’s technology. The longhouse is in Kerapa Spak, located in Borneo’s Sarawak region, a 4 hour boat ride and an arduous trek through the jungle away from the closest major city, Betong. In the past, all of the needed energy had to be produced by a diesel generator, however now; the longhouse has an independent source of clean energy.

The highly-developed hybrid system generates electricity for the village community and creates a stable connection to the outside world as it powers a satellite-supported tele¬communications system. The system was handed over to the Malaysian government on July 13, 2010.

The Malaysian longhouses resemble row houses and are made up of several units and each unit houses a family. All of the units are built under a single roof and the entire house forms a social and political community. For a long time, the villagers had been cut off from the outside world during most of the year and were dependent on diesel generators for their power supply. Due to the long transportation route for fuel, energy was strictly rationed, consumed only for the essentials.

Now a battery system saves solar power for the hours when the sun isn’t shining. A solar powered satellite-supported VSAT communications system provides the villagers with a connection to the outside world via telephone and internet.

The managing director of IBC SOLAR’s Malaysian subsidiary, Ahmad Nazri Ibrahim, explained: “With the new hybrid system, the entire longhouse can be illuminated. Even the community room can be instantly lit with 21 lamps, the surrounding area with 7 more. The system’s advantage: It will deliver emission-free power for at least the next 25 years, with only minimum maintenance work. So the village community will be reliably provided for.”

The project started in November 2009 and challenged the partners logistically. The PVNot only the abbreviation for photovoltaics. The term is composed of Photon (Hellenistic for light) and the name of the physicist Alessandor Volta (1745 – 1827), at his time one of the leading scientists in the field of galvanic electricity (chemical procedures as for instance while immersing metals into acid. He constructed the first electrical battery in 1780. components and building devices had be transported on the difficult route to the village.

Udo Möhrstedt, founder and CEO of IBC SOLAR, explained at the official handover of the system: “Malaysia is one of the big solar module producers, exporting the major share of their modules. I would like to encourage the Malaysian government to support more photovoltaic projects, in order to more strongly promote the development of the local infrastructure.”

For more information about IBC SOLAR, visit www.ibc-solar.de.

Last update: 22 September 2010 at 12:07

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Air Products to Supply Malaysia's Photovoltaic Market with Turnkey Contract
Submitted by PR Newswire Asia on Thu, 30/09/2010 - 12:13
Business
LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Air Products (NYSE:APD) today announced it has signed a contract with a leading global photovoltaic (PV) manufacturer in Malaysia for the company's SunSource(TM) Solutions gases, equipment and services. The turnkey gas supply contract includes bulk and specialty gases, specialty chemicals, and related gas distribution equipment to support the customer's new crystalline PV facility in Melaka, Malaysia. This contract further strengthens Air Products' worldwide PV industry supply position with one of the leading producers.

The contract includes the long-term supply of on-site nitrogen, hydrogen, argon and oxygen, specialty gases such as silane, ammonia and nitrogen trifluoride.

The Melaka solar cell manufacturing plant aims to reach a capacity of more than 1 Gigawatt of cells per year by 2012. Listed on the U.S. Nasdaq, the customer designs, manufactures and installs high-efficiency crystalline solar module technology worldwide. The company owns and operates two other PV plants in the Philippines and is headquartered, along with its research and development facility, in San Jose, Calif.

"Air Products is very excited to be the gas supplier of a leader in crystalline photovoltaics which represents the highest efficiency, high volume photovoltaic technology. The Malaysia PV plant will be a core element of the customer's technology and manufacturing roadmap to achieve lower cost and reach the goal of grid parity," said Corning Painter, vice president and general manager, Global Electronics, Air Products. "Air Products is committed to developing alternative energy markets. Our expertise and complete turnkey offerings help our customers around the world reduce cost per watt and achieve a fast ramp-up."

As a leading electronics materials supplier, Air Products is strategically positioned to meet the demands of the rapidly expanding worldwide photovoltaics market. The company's SunSource Solutions are used in all of the different PV technologies by established and start-up producers alike. Air Products' long-standing history serving the semiconductor and thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) industries since their inception makes it ideally suited to support its customers' drive to grid parity -- the point where electricity generated by PV is equivalent in cost to traditional power company-supplied electricity.

With the demand for renewable energy and improved efficiency on the rise, Air Products is well positioned to support these developing markets with its expertise and project experience in areas including large-scale hydrogen supply for cleaner transportation fuels, developmental work on the hydrogen economy, hydrogen vehicle fuelling and infrastructure, leading natural gas liquefaction technology, and now the growing supply of gases and services for the photovoltaic industry.

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 40.177.753 von R-BgO am 20.09.10 13:38:03

VNP ist bald mit recycling - fuer FSLR module - vor ort...mfg CW

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LAUNCH DATE FOR FiT SYSTEM DEFERRED TO DEC 1

The launch date for the implementation of the Feed-In Tariff (FiT) system for the Renewable Energy Sector has been revised to Dec 1 instead of Sept 1, 2011.

Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui said his ministry had to revise the launch date in the light of recent updates on the preparatory work.

"The rationale for the revised schedule in the implementation of the FiT is because the Renewable Energy Act 2011 requires seven subsidiary legislations for it to be enforced and to enable the FiT system to be implemented smoothly," he said in a statement today.

"To ensure that the implementation of the FiT system is done in a fair, effective and transparent manner, the ministry has had to revise the launch date to avoid any glitches in its implementation as the subsidiary legislations are complex and technical in nature, and, therefore, require more time than originally envisaged to be crafted," he said.

The implementation of the FiT is a long term commitment from the government to enable Renewable Energy to reach a target of at least 985 MW by 2015 and 2,080 MW by 2020. The renewable resources eligible for the FiT are biogas, biomass, small hydros and solar photovoltaic.

The ministry is currently working closely with the Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia to finalise the required legal instruments under the Renewable Act 2011.

They are seven subsidiary legislations, nine standardised Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements (REPPAs) for the different renewable sources and 19 Administrative Guidelines that need to be finalised.

The FiT system implementation will be managed and monitored by the Sustainable Energy Development Authority Malaysia (SEDA Malaysia), a statutory body established under the SEDA Act 2011.

According to Chin, SEDA Malaysia is an agency established based on the principles of transparency and fairness, especially when it comes to managing the FiT system and the RE Fund.

Chin also said that the official portal for SEDA Malaysia would be launched in September prior to the implementation of FiT.