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The financial market meltdown that has pummeled solar companies in
Silicon Valley is also leaving its mark in the cluster of solar
startups on this island.

“I don’t expect any more thin-film companies in Taiwan,” said Frank O’Young, vice chairman of Sunner Solar. “There are several companies that have decided not to invest more in PV.”

O’Young said a few companies that had already put money into
building amorphous silicon solar panels have quietly decided to quit.
He wouldn’t disclose names though.

Taiwan has nearly a dozen amorphous silicon solar companies,
including Sunner. Located on a large swath of land that the government
has designated as the Central Taiwan Science Park, Sunner was founded
in June 2007 and began mass production in March this year.

It has a 25-megawatt factory and plenty of space for expansion.
Future plans include its second factory, which will produce
100-megawatts and a third factory that will produce 200-megawatts,
O’Young said.

The company plans to add more equipment to the 25-megawatt line to
turn it into a 35-megawatt line for producing tandem junction amorphous
silicon panels. It has purchased factory equipment from ULVAC and Nisshinbo, both in Japan.

Sunner has seen its panels installed in small systems in Taiwan and
the Philippines, and it’s waiting for customers who have received the
Italian government’s approval to build hundreds of megawatts worth of
solar projects to line up the financing for installation, O’Young said.

Thin-film companies aren’t the only ones feeling the crunch. Crystalline silicon solar cell maker Gintech Energy
is waiting for market conditions to improve before starting to build
its third, 840-megawatt factory. It already has a 600-megawatt factory
at its headquarters in Miaoli County, about an hour and half south of
Taipei.

Powercom, meanwhile, has decided to scale back its plan
build a polysilicon plant that could initially produce 3,000 tons per
year. The factory, which is under construction, would produce 1,500
tons per year during its first phase.

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Norway’s state-owned energy utility Statkraft will construct a 3.3 megawatt
(MW) PV solar power plant costing €13m in the Italian Latina-region, 60
kilometers South of Rome.

It is the first step into solar for Statkraft, which has its primary strength
in hydropower, but also develops other renewable projects.

The plant in Italy will generate 4.5 million kwh annually, and cover an area
just under 96 000 square meters. It will be completed this year with Sharp
or Suntech delivering the 15,700 solar panels required.

“The construction of our first solar park is an important milestone in our
work to meet the world’s need for pure energy. Solar power is a new energy
source for us, and we expect it to grow in the years ahead due to
technological developments, cost reductions and favourable framework
conditions,” says executive vice president Jon Brandsar of Statkraft.

Construction work will commence before the summer. When the facility is
completed, it will generate enough energy to supply 1,200 Italian households.

Since 2007, Statkraft has co-operated with Norsk Solenergi to develop Italian
projects through joint ventures. Norsk Solenergi decided to divest in May,
and Statkraft now fully owns the Casale and Borgo projects.

“Italy is presently one of the most attractive solar energy markets in Europe.
We are also looking at options in Spain and south east Europe in order to
reach our goal of 75MW of solar power by 2012,” says Olav Hetland, senior
vice president of Statkraft’s solar power business unit.

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It’s a
question we hear all the time: Why doesn’t California have a
German-style feed-in tariff for the solar industry? German utilities
pay a high price for any solar electricity fed into the grid, with the
cost distributed among the country’s ratepayers. The much-esteemed
policy made Germany a huge solar market, with 1.5 gigawatts of new
capacity installed last year. For comparison, the United States would
need 6 gigawatts of annual solar installations, 20 times more than it
has today, to reach the same level of market penetration.

But at a luncheon Wednesday to discuss solar trends in advance of
the Intersolar North Ameri