SOLVISTO

• Outstanding

• Old manufacturer of power distribution boards starts out on the road to the EMS business, conducting trials of 14 connection boxes in 5 colors at its Iwata Plant

• NPC: Masafumi Itoh, president and CEO announces that the company, the world’s leading producer of equipment for manufacturing PV modules, will enter the PV repair and maintenance business, making full use of its knowhow.

• LDK Solar： Revival scenario, bringing about cost reduction with facility innovation, assisted also by reduction of electricity fees, as well as by restarting a profitable poly silicon plant, so that it can head toward being in the black
• Akcome Metal: An all around specialist in frames, from roof based mounting systems and ground based mounting systems, to uniaxial and biaxial tracking systems now getting down to the Japanese market

•  Kyocera and Century Tokyo Leasing: begin installation of the world’s largest, water based mega solar system, 1.7MW aiming at development of 60MW for this year.
•  Canadian firm Oshawa Electric : begins trials of an energy management system (EMS) with a hybrid PCS made in Japan.
•  Jinko Solar: Puts a 120 MW plant into operation in South Africa. For development of a power generation station the company procures a total of 38 million yen from private banks as well as from investors.
•  RECOM: supplies 371MW to Lamar Dixon Expo Center
•  China Sunergy markets a solar cell with a 5 bus bar electrode construction, targeting annual sales of 100MW.
•  Canadian Solar: establishes a fund with Sichuan Development
•  Hanwha Q Cells: announces module production capacity expands up to 1.5GW
•  Tabuchi Denki: opens an office in Thailand
•  ABB & BYD: join together to develop a storage battery

• Infini Japan Solar, Tomoyuki Oyakawa CEO

• Business results for cells and modules worldwide for the first half of the year, recording total sales of the 14 major companies was up by 25%, \1 trillion, shipments up by 35%, coming to 13GW, and a net profit of \97.8 billion, but not all companies in the black

•  Asahi Glass: Now down by half, super light volume 9.5kg a unit, sales of modules accelerating
• “Aiming at corporate sales of \10 billion in 3 years time.”
•  GES: EPC, the subsidiary of the major Taiwanese NSP, expands it business, with a total global accumulation of 95MW for this year, aiming at development in Japan exceeding 100 MW

• Status of corporate stock of PV related companies/status of modules in Japan/trends in bring in solar cells

•  Mitsubishi Electric: reveals a New brand ENEDIA at an exhibition
•  Japan PV Planner Association: election of chairman, Koji Hayashi, president of Hayashi Denki Shokai
•  Shigeyamagumi: sales up 1.3 fold, expands its position as a frame manufacturer
•  West Holdings: establishes West Electric
•  Sharp: puts its 14th mega solar system into operation, moves ahead steadily with electric power generation companies
•  Eko Instruments: begins construction of a 1.5MW system in Ibaragi, and conducts tests of slopes too
•  SMA Japan: with expansion of its office, it opens a training room

• LOHAS: President Kenta Kagikawa, sales of solar cells in lots, breaks through the accumulative level of 400 contracts, getting involved in expanding overseas too

•  ABB: markets the dispersal, 27.6kW type
•  Canadian Solar Japan: markets a heavily salt corrosion resistant module, non AR code, with twice the frame oxide film
•  Mitsubishi Electric: new products with Mitsubishi HEMS
•  Eliiy Power: begins sales of portable storage batteries, limited to 1,000 units
•  Tabuchi Electric: copes with FRT requirements, comes out with models which passed approval for frames for home use, puts 4 types on the market simultaneously

• Amount of electric power generated this month

• Overview of events such as dates of announcement of performance figures to be published from the end of September to October, schedules of training and seminars