The world’s largest manufacturer of solar cells First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) program in Inner Mongolia Erdos [12.15 -2.02%] City to establish a plant cell thin film solar manufacturing, allowing us to consolidate manufacturing photovoltaic cells worldwide leadership, will also enable Suntech, Yingli, LDK Solar LDK and other domestic companies are facing more intense competition on the market. nf343,pc764,gw240
First Solar is the first in China to announce the creation of photovoltaic cells photovoltaic companies manufacturing abroad. Construction of a production plant in Erdos, is the company with the local government in projects of new large-scale cooperation in the field of energy is one of the rest of the project also includes the next 10 years, building a co-operation in the city of Ordos installed capacity of 2000 MW (2 million kilowatts) of light-volt power station, the station has been published all over the program photovoltaic station capacity the greatest.
First Solar Corporate Communications Department (Europe, Middle East and Asia), director Brandon Mitchener2 4 network “Economic Observer said, First Solar PV in the city of Ordos, the plant construction will be four projects construction, including a demonstration project of 30 MW will be started in June this year. pa3384u-1brs , pa3395u-1brs ,Centrale photovoltaics into the building later, the company will build a photovoltaic cell manufacturing plant Ordos, other parts of the Ordos and the Chinese offer fine film photovoltaic cells solar power plant.
Brandon Mitchener did not report these solar cells construction schedule of the plant and the scale of investment. He said that the Ordos project will use a foreign production of photovoltaic cells, but the Chinese market is enormous and can not rely on imports of photovoltaic cells power plant construction needs through the establishment of native plants, the nearest low-cost photovoltaic cells.
First Solar was founded in 1999, the main product is based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin film as a semiconductor material manufacturing photovoltaic cells, 2009 the annual production can reach 1219 MW. According to Barclays Bank forecasts for 2009 sales of photovoltaic cells to First Solar to reach 1100 MW, the market share of 18%, the highest in the world first. Suntech Power, Baoding Yingli, Changzhou Trina three shares of companies in the market of China was 12%, 9% and 7% reported two, four and five. blog
And Suntech, Yingli and other Chinese business owners pushing compared to crystalline silicon cells, production of First Solar thin-film batteries on the use of semiconductor materials significantly reduces the production costs are considerably reduced, but the drawback is that the photoelectric conversion rate is relatively low installation cost increases of world market share in the crystalline silicon cells low.
First quarter of 2009, First Solar thin-mobile, good film production is about 0.93 U.S. dollars / W, photoelectric conversion rate of about 11.1%, the company plans to reduce costs production in 2014 in U.S. $ 0.56 / W, photoelectric conversion rate in the next has been raised to 15% -16%.
Currently, First Solar in the United States Perrysburg, Ohio (Perrysburg), Germany, Frankfurt an der Oder (Frankfurt an der Oder) and Kulim Malaysia (Kulim) with three thin film battery manufacturing facility. In 2009, First Solar announced the creation of the new plant in France, is expected to officially put into service in 2011. If the Ordos-thin battery factory film manufacturing, construction, will become factory the fourth planet.
Brandon Mitchener said the company plans to build a production plant in a particular country, especially to see if the country has a long-term, stable and sustainable market. Overall, First Solar battery production period of plant recovery is about 5 years.
In 2009, photovoltaic cells in China has attracted over 300 companies, manufacturing accounted for about 50% of the world, but the vast majority of sales to European and American countries. As the Chinese PV market, started in 2009, including First Solar PV, including large companies have a large Chinese market. First Solar is the starting point of China Inner Mongolia Erdos, the company in November 2009 with the Erdos Municipal Government signed a framework agreement to build together a total installed capacity of 2000 MW of the largest solar power plant. In a 30-megawatt project is completed, plans 2, 3, 4 respectively, construction of 100 MW, 870 MW and 1,000 MW, which completed by 2019. thinkpad r40 battery ,thinkpad x60 battery
First Solar CEO Bo Song Si (Bruce Sohn) told us they build power plants on a large scale photovoltaic in Ordos, one of the reasons why the land there was a large, sunny, with easy access network can be. In the tariff, he hoped that China similar to the German Law on the Internet tariffs in the early stage of development for the photovoltaic industry production of energy, rising electricity prices and then gradually reduce. However, the Chinese government tend to be determined by the offer price, making a price below the offer is often easy to discourage business investment initiative.