In San Francisco next week, the U.S. solar-industry pioneer unveils digital monitoring and 240-watt panel, while celebrating leadership of 30-year factory and industry veteran
SolarWorld will show off its contributions to the next advances and historical development of U.S. solar-panel manufacturing – on the rooftop, in the factory and now on the Internet – at the Intersolar trade show in San Francisco beginning Tuesday.
The company, the largest and most experienced U.S. manufacturer of solar technology, will unveil its Suntrol digital system to collect, log and display the power-generation performance of a Sunmodule system. The technologies will enable buyers of SolarWorld's highly rated solar technology to closely watch current and total electricity yields and CO2 savings by tying together a data logger, monitor and Internet portal. Using a free software application, owners can even keep track from a PC, cell phone or iPod.
SolarWorld also will introduce its 240-watt standard Sunmodule. Continuous production process improvements culminating at the company's historical mainstay – and now fully automated – manufacturing plant in Camarillo have added 10 watts of power-generation capacity to the product standard since Jan. 1.
Visitors to SolarWorld's booth at Intersolar will have a chance to congratulate Raju Yenamandra on this summer's 30th anniversary of his work as an industry pioneer at the plant. Mr. Yenamandra went to work in Camarillo in June 1980, after earning a master's degree in engineering with a concentration on solar at Florida Institute of Technology in the late 1970s, just as industry-scale manufacturing was gaining traction.
Now vice president of U.S. sales, Mr. Yenamandra is among the 10 most veteran employees at the plant, one of three that the company operates in the United States. SolarWorld also is culminating a 500-megawatt-capacity, 1,000-employee ramp of its plant in Hillsboro.
About the SolarWorld group
The SolarWorld group (ISIN: DE0005108401) is a worldwide leader in offering brand-name, high-quality, crystalline solar-power technology. Its strength is its fully integrated solar production. From silicon as the raw material through wafers, cells and modules all the way to turn-key solar systems, including recycling, the group combines all stages of the solar value chain. The central business activity is selling quality modules into the installation and distribution trades and crystalline wafers to the international solar cell industry. Group headquarters are located in Bonn, Germany. Production sites are to be found in Germany, the United States and South Korea. The group's largest production facilities operate in Freiberg, Germany and Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. Sustainability is the basis of the group strategy. Under the name Solar2World, the group supports care projects using off-grid solar-power solutions in emerging economies and developing countries, exemplifying sustainable economic development. Worldwide, SolarWorld employs more than 2,700 people. SolarWorld AG has been quoted on the stock exchange since 1999 and today is listed on, among others, the TecDAX, ÖkoDAX, Dow Jones STOXX 600 as well as in the sustainability indices DAXglobal Alternative Energy and NAI.
www.SolarWorld-USA.com
Contacts:
SolarWorld Industries America
Ben Santarris, public affairs manager
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ben.santarris@solarworld-usa.com
