SOLAR TODAY - April 2010

mitsubishi ramps up Production

Mitsubishi ( mitsubishielectric-usa.com) in February announced it had achieved 19. 3 percent efficiency in a polysilicon photovoltaic (PV) cell, mainly by engineering a 4 percent reduction in resistance between the semiconductor and its attached electrodes.

At the same time, the company completed construction of its second silicon PV factory, in Nagano, Japan, with a goal of producing 50 megawatts (MW) of modules annually within a year and 600 MW “at an early stage.” The company expects the world market for PV to reach 8,000 MW in fiscal 2012 (beginning in April 2011). To meet demand, Mitsubishi will build new production lines to manufacture high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon PV modules in Kyoto, Japan. Plans are also in place to increase production of inverters 50 percent, to 6,000 units per month, by this May. ST

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