List of photovoltaics companies - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of notable photovoltaics (PV) companies.

Grid-connected solar photovoltaics

Photovoltaics

Photovoltaics is a method of generating electrical power by converting solar radiation into direct current electricity using semiconductors that exhibit the photovoltaic effect. Photovoltaic power generation employs solar panels composed of a number of solar cells containing a photovoltaic material...

(PV) is the fastest growing energy technology in the world, with 50% annual increases in cumulative installed capacity in 2006 and 2007, to an estimated 7.7 GW. This translates into 1.5 million homes with rooftop photovoltaics feeding into the electricity grid worldwide. During 2007, investment in new solar photovoltaic manufacturing facilities was strong in Europe, Japan, China, Taiwan and the United States, with many new operations reported. Since October 2009, the Canadian province of Ontario has had vast success with the implementation of their feed-in tariff

Feed-in Tariff

A feed-in tariff is a policy mechanism designed to accelerate investment in renewable energy technologies. It achieves this by offering long-term contracts to renewable energy producers, typically based on the cost of generation of each technology...

incentive for grid-connected solar systems. Ontario is currently leading the way in North America with this comprehensive renewable energy incentive.

Photovoltaics companies include PV capital equipment producers, cell manufacturers

Solar cell

A solar cell is a solid state electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect....

, panel manufacturers and installers. The list does not include silicon manufacturing companies.

Top ten

According to EnergyTrend, the 2011 Global Top Ten Polysilicon, Solar Cell and Solar Module Manufacturers by capacity are found in countries including People's Republic of China, United States, Taiwan, Germany, Japan, and Korea.

In 2011, the global top ten polysilicon makers by capacity are as follows, GCL, Hemlock, OCI, Wacker, LDK, REC, MEMC, Tokuyama, LCY and Woongjin, represented by People's Republic of China, United States, Taiwan, Germany, Japan and South Korea.

2011 Global Top Ten Polysilicon Manufacturers

Company	Capacity (Tons)	Country
GCL GCL -Science:* Ganglion cell layer, a layer of the Retina* Granule cell layer The innermost layer of the cerebral cortex* Glutamate cysteine ligase the first enzyme in the glutathione biosynthesis pathway-Computing:...	65,000	China
OCI OCI OCI may refer to:* Ontario Cancer Institute* Open Catalog Interface* Open Constitution Initiative* Ottawa Collegiate Institute* Oakwood Collegiate Institute* Oracle Call Interface* Orascom Construction Industries...	65,000	Korea
Hemlock Hemlock The word hemlock may refer to:Hemlock, several poisonous plants in the Apiaceae family :Hemlock , two species, one formerly used as a method of execution*Water Hemlock...	43,000	USA
Wacker Wacker Wacker may refer to:Wacker DriveWacker processThe Wackers, an American rock bandCompanyWacker Chemie AG, MunichWacker Construction Equipment AG, MunichSportsVfB Admira Wacker MödlingWacker BerlinWacker Burghausen...	33,000	Germany
LDK LDK LDK is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* The IATA airport code for Lidköping-Hovby Airport*Democratic League of Kosovo , a political party in Kosovo...	25,000	China
REC REC - Organizations :* Rural Electrification Corporation Limited, an Infrastructure Finance Company in India* Railway Executive Committee, in Britain* Reformed Episcopal Church, an Anglican church in the United States and Canada...	19,000	Norway
MEMC	15,000	USA	[SATC]]	1,300	USA
Tokuyama	9,200	Japan
LCY	8,000	Taiwan
Woongjin	5,000	Korea
Source	EnergyTrend	http://www.energytrend.com/

On the other hand, the 2011 global top ten solar cell makers by capacity are dominated by both Chinese and Taiwanese companies, including Suntech, JA Solar, Trina, Yingli, Motech, Gintech, Canadian Solar, NeoSolarPower, Hanwha Solar One and JinkoSolar.

2011 Global Top Ten Solar Cell Manufacturer

Company	Capacity (MW)	Country
Suntech	2,400	China
JA Solar	2,100	China
Trina Trina Katrina Laverne Taylor , better known by her stage name Trina, is an American rapper, songwriter and model from Miami, Florida. Trina first gained notoriety in 1998 with her appearance on Trick Daddy's second studio album www.thug.com to the single "Nann Nigga"...	1,900	China
Yingli Yingli Yingli also known as Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited , which holds the brand Yingli Solar, is a solar energy company and one of the largest vertically integrated manufacturers of photovoltaic solar modules...	1,700	China
Motech	1,500	Taiwan
Gintech	1,500	Taiwan
Canadian Solar Canadian Solar Canadian Solar Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and panels. It was founded by Chinese Canadian Shawn Qu.Canadian Solar is ranked sixth largest producer in the world by PVinsights and seventh by Bloomberg New Energy Finance...	1,300	China
Neo Solar Power	1,300	Taiwan
Hanwha Solar One	1,100	China
JinkoSolar	1,100	China
Source	EnergyTrend	http://www.energytrend.com/

In terms of solar module by capacity, the 2011 Global Top Ten are: Suntech, LDK, Canadian Solar, Trina, Yingli, Hanhwa Solar One, Solar World, Jinko Solar, Sunneeg and Sunpower, represented by makers in People's Republic of China and Germany.

2011 Global Top Ten Solar Module

Company	Capacity (MW)	Country
Suntech	2,400	China
LDK LDK LDK is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* The IATA airport code for Lidköping-Hovby Airport*Democratic League of Kosovo , a political party in Kosovo...	2,500	China
Canadian Solar Canadian Solar Canadian Solar Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and panels. It was founded by Chinese Canadian Shawn Qu.Canadian Solar is ranked sixth largest producer in the world by PVinsights and seventh by Bloomberg New Energy Finance...	2,000	China
Trina Trina Katrina Laverne Taylor , better known by her stage name Trina, is an American rapper, songwriter and model from Miami, Florida. Trina first gained notoriety in 1998 with her appearance on Trick Daddy's second studio album www.thug.com to the single "Nann Nigga"...	1,900	China
Yingli Yingli Yingli also known as Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited , which holds the brand Yingli Solar, is a solar energy company and one of the largest vertically integrated manufacturers of photovoltaic solar modules...	1,700	China
Hanwha Solarone Hanwha SolarOne Hanwha SolarOne, Ltd. is a Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and panels. They are ranked seventh largest producer in the world by PVinsights....	1,500	China
SolarWorld SolarWorld SolarWorld is a German company dedicated to the manufacture and marketing photovoltaic products worldwide by integrating all components of the solar value chain, from feedstock to module production, from trade with solar panels to the promotion and construction of turn-key solar power plants...	1,400	Germany	[Satcon Technology	1,300	United States
Jinko	1,100	China
Sunneeg	1,000	China
Sunpower SunPower SunPower Corporation designs and manufactures high-efficiency crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, roof tiles and solar panels based on a silicon all-back-contact solar cell invented at Stanford University. SunPower Corporation is publicly traded on the NASDAQ as SPWRA and SPWRB...	1,000	USA
Source	EnergyTrend	http://www.energytrend.com/

In terms of wafer and cell capacities, both makers from Taiwan and China

have demonstrated significant YoY growth from 2010 to 2011.

China & Taiwan Production Capacity

	China (MV)	Taiwan (MV)
2010 Wafer Capacity	15,300	2,640
2011 Wafer Capacity	26,000	5,020
YOY	70%	90%
2010 Cell Capacity	11,200	5,415
2011 Cell Capacity	24,000	10,045
YOY	114%	86%
Source	EnergyTrend	http://www.energytrend.com/

Top ten

Yearly Ranking
According to an annual market survey by the photovoltaics trade publication Photon International, global production of photovoltaic cells and modules in 2009 was 12.3 GW. The top ten manufacturers accounted for 45% of this total.
In 2010, a tremendous growth of solar PV cell shipments doubled the solar PV cell market size. According to the solar PV market research company,PVinsights, Suntech topped the ranking of solar cell production. Most of the top ten solar PV producers doubled their shipment in 2010 and five of them were over one gigawatt shipments.The top ten solar cell producers dominated the market with an even higher market share, say 50~60%, with respect to an assumed twenty gigawatt cell shipments in 2010
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Company !! 2009 shipment(MW) !! 2010 shipment(MW)
|-
| Suntech || 704 || 1572
|-
| JA Solar || 520 || 1464
|-
| First Solar

First Solar

First Solar, Inc. is an American manufacturer of thin film photovoltaic modules, or solar panels, and a provider to PV power plants of supporting services that include finance, construction, maintenance and end-of-life panel recycling...

|| 1100 || 1411
|-
| Yingli Solar || 525.3 || 1062
|-
| Trina Solar

Trina Solar

Trina Solar Limited is a Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic modules, which was founded in 1997 as a system installation company. Trina Solar's solar modules provide electric power for residential, commercial, industrial and other applications worldwide....

|| 399 || 1057
|-
| Motech Solar

Motech Solar

Motech Solar, a division of Motech Industries Inc., is based in Taiwan. The company was ranked as the 6th largest solar cell producer in the world in 2007. Grid-connected solar photovoltaics is the fastest growing energy technology in the world.-History:...

|| 360 || 924
|-
| Q-Cells

Q-Cells

Q-Cells is a manufacturer of photovoltaic cells, established in 1999. Its core business is the development, production and marketing of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells....

|| 586 || 907
|-
| Gintech || 368 || 827
|-
| Sharp

Sharp

Sharp or SHARP may refer to:*Sharp *Sharp , a flour made from hard wheat*Sharp , Canadian magazine*Sharp Daily, a free newspaper published in Taiwan and Hong Kong*Sharp...

|| 595 || 774
|-
| Canadian Solar

Canadian Solar

Canadian Solar Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and panels. It was founded by Chinese Canadian Shawn Qu.Canadian Solar is ranked sixth largest producer in the world by PVinsights and seventh by Bloomberg New Energy Finance...

|| 193 || 588
|-
| Source ||Photon||PVinsights
| [SATCON Technology] || 130 || 158
Note: 2009 shipments of Motech and Canadian Solar are by PVinsights.

Quarterly ranking

Although yearly ranking is as listed above, quarterly ranking can indicate that which company can sustain particular conditions such as sever price adjustment, Government Feed-in Tariff change, Weather conditions and etc. In 2Q11, First solar regained Championship of solar module shipment from Suntech.From the 2Q11 results, four phenomena should be noticed. (1) Thin Film leader First Solar still dominates (2) More Centralized in solar module market (3) Chinese companies soared (4) Giga-Watt game is prevailing. (According to Latest Solar Model Shipment report by PVinsigts)
Thin-film ranking
Thin films represented 16.8% of total global production, up from 12.5% in 2008. The top ten thin-film producers were:

1100.0 MW First Solar
First Solar
First Solar, Inc. is an American manufacturer of thin film photovoltaic modules, or solar panels, and a provider to PV power plants of supporting services that include finance, construction, maintenance and end-of-life panel recycling...
123.4 MW Suntech solar
94.0 MW Sharp
Sharp Corporation
is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. Headquartered in Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan, Sharp employs more than 55,580 people worldwide as of June 2011. The company was founded in September 1912 and takes its name from one of its founder's first...
60.0 MW HELIOSPHERA
HELIOSPHERA
HelioSphera S.A. is a Greek company founded in 2007, with major shareholders based in Greece and the United States of America.With its headquarters in Athens and the production facility in Tripolis, Greece, the main activity of HelioSphera S.A...
60.0 MW Sungen Solar
SUNGEN International Limited
SUNGEN International Limited is a subsidiary of Anwell Technologies Limited, with trading and manufacturing business in solar photovoltaics panels and modules. SUNGEN has a thin film solar module production facility in Henan, China using Anwell Solar’s manufacturing technologies...
50.0 MW Trony
43.0 MW Solar Frontier
42.0 MW Mitsubishi
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
, or MHI, is a Japanese company. It is one of the core companies of Mitsubishi Group.-History:In 1870 Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi took a lease of Government-owned Nagasaki Shipyard. He named it Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works, and started the shipbuilding business on a full scale...
40.0 MW Kaneka
40.0 MW vtech solar
30.0 MW Würth Solar
30.0 MW Bosch (formerly Ersol
Ersol
Bosch Solar Energy AG is a German wafer and solar cell manufacturer, based in Erfurt, which specialises in silicon-based pholtovoltaic products. The company consists of the divisions Silicon, Wafers, Solar Cells and Modules. It has been listed on the German stock exchange since 30 September 2005...

)
30.0 MW EPV
30.0 MW Solyndra
Solyndra
Solyndra was a manufacturer of cylindrical panels of CIGS thin-film solar cells based in Fremont, California. Although the company was once touted for its unusual technology, plummeting silicon prices led to the company being unable to compete with more conventional solar panels...

¹ Estimated

Listed by manufacturing capability

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+Notable PV Production Lines in 2009, Technology, Capacity & Production
|-
! rowspan="2" | Company || rowspan="2" | Country || rowspan="2" | Technology || colspan="4" | Capacity (MW) || colspan = "4" | Production (MW)
|-
! 2006 !! 2007 !! 2008 !! 2009 !! 2006 !! 2007 !! 2008 !! 2009
|-
| Bosch || Germany || - || - || 220 || 260 || 270 || - || 55 || 143 || 200
|-
| BP Solar

BP Solar

BP has been involved in solar power since 1973 and its subsidiary, BP Solar, is a solar power company with production facilities in India and the People's Republic of China, employing a workforce of over 2,000 people worldwide. BP Solar is worldwide manufacturer and installer of photovoltaic solar...

|| Spain || Laser buried grid² || - || 80 || - || - || 12 || 15 || 40¹ || -
|-
| || India || - || - || 47 || - || - || 14 || 23 || 35¹ || 50¹
|-
| || Australia || MC Screen print || - || 52 || - || - || 33 || 35 || 40¹ || -
|-
| Greenshine New Energy || USA || - || - || 43 || - || - || 25 || 27 || 30¹ || -
|-
| Canadian Solar

Canadian Solar

|| China || - || 0 || 100 || 270 || 420 || 0 || 40 || 102.8 || 200
|-
| China Sunergy

China Sunergy

China Sunergy is a Chinese solar cell products manufacturer based in Nanjing, province, China. The company specializes in creating solar cells from silicon wafers. China Sunergy has a major customer base in China, but also sells their products internationally. On May 17 of 2007 the company began...

|| China || - || - || 192 || 320 || 320 || - || 80 || 100-120 || 194
|-
| Conergy

Conergy

Conergy AG is a company in the solar energy industry founded in 1998 by the former chairman of the board Hans-Martin Rüter. It had a turnover of 706 Million euros in 2007, and employs more than 2000 staff. It also has a company called Conergy Americas....

|| Germany || - || 0 || 275¹ || 100¹ || 250 || 0 || 0¹ || 50¹ || 100¹
|-
| DelSolar

DelSolar

DelSolar Co., Ltd. ) is solar company from Delta group, engaging in the research, design, manufacture and distribution of solar cells, solar modules, as well as the development of Photovoltaic system...

|| Taiwan || - || 50 || 100 || 120 || 120 || - || 54 || 83 || 88.8
|-
| || China || - || - || - || - || 60 || - || - || - || 0
|-
| E-Ton Solar || Taiwan || - || - || 200 || 320 || 320 || 35 || 62 || 97 || 220
|-
| Evergreen Solar

Evergreen Solar

Evergreen Solar, Inc. is a publicly-held U.S. company which specializes in solar energy. It trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol ESLRD....

⁴ || USA || String ribbon

String ribbon

String Ribbon solar cells is proprietary technology developed by Evergreen Solar.-Technology description:String ribbon is a method of producing multi-crystalline silicon strips suitable for the photovoltaic industry....

|| - || 17 || 58.5 || 145 || 13 || 16 || 26.5 || 103.4
|-
| || Germany || String ribbon

String ribbon

|| - || 90 || - || - || 15 || 50 || - || -
|-
| || China || String ribbon

String ribbon

|| - || - || - || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| First Solar

First Solar

|| USA || CdTe

Cadmium telluride

Cadmium telluride is a crystalline compound formed from cadmium and tellurium. It is used as an infrared optical window and a solar cell material. It is usually sandwiched with cadmium sulfide to form a p-n junction photovoltaic solar cell...

|| - || 119 || 147 || 160 || 60 || 119 || 145¹ || 143
|-
| || Germany || CdTe

Cadmium telluride

|| 0 || 158 || 196 || 214 || 0 || 81 || 192 || 192.5
|-
| || Malaysia || CdTe

Cadmium telluride

|| 0 || 0 || 392 || 854 || 0 || 0 || 167 || 764.5
|-
| Gintech || Taiwan || - || - || 210 || 310 || 660 || 6 || 60 || 180 || 368
|-
| Isofoton

Isofoton

ISOFOTON is a global company, present in over 60 countries. ISOFOTON is involved in designing, manufacturing, and supplying Solar Energy products. Its activities are centered in three technology categories: Photovoltaic, Thermal, and High Concentration Photovoltaic.- History :ISOFOTON was founded...

|| Spain || - || - || 130 || 180 || 140 || 61 || 87 || 130 || 70
|-
| JA Solar Holdings

JA Solar Holdings

JA Solar Holdings designs, manufactures, and sells monocrystalline solar cells primarily in the People’s Republic of China. It sells its products primarily through a team of sales and marketing personnel to solar module manufacturers, who assemble and integrate its solar cells into modules and...

|| China || - || - || 225 || 750 || 800 || 30 || 132 || 300 || 520
|-
| Kyocera

Kyocera

is a multinational manufacturer based in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982. The company has diversified its founding technology in ceramic materials through internal development as well as strategic mergers and acquisitions...

|| Japan || - || - || - || 360 || - || 180² || 207 || 290 || 400
|-
| Mitsubishi Electric

Mitsubishi

The Mitsubishi Group , Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies is a Japanese multinational conglomerate company that consists of a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy...

|| Japan || - || - || 150 || 220 || 220 || 111 || 121 || 148 || 120
|-
| Mitsubishi Heavy

Mitsubishi

|| Japan || - || - || 14 || 42 || 68 || 13 || 14 || 40¹ || 42¹
|-
| Motech

Motech Solar

|| Taiwan || - || - || 240 || 350 || 470 || 102 || 176 || 270 || 296
|-
| || China || - || 0 || 0 || 60 || 130 || 0 || 0 || 2 | 64
|-
| MX Group || Italy || - || - || - || 60 || 90 || - || - || 37 || 67
|-
| Neo Solar Power || Taiwan || - || - || 60 || 210 || 240 || 4 || 36 || 135¹ || 201
|-
| Ningbo Solar Electric || China || - || - || 100 || 250-270 || 350 || - || 100 || 175¹ || 260
|-
| Photowatt || France || - || - || 60 || 60 || - || 33 || 38 || 58 || 49
|-
| Photovoltech NV || Belgium || - || - || 80 || 80 || 80 || 18 || 29 || 80 || 54
|-
| Q-Cells

Q-Cells

Q-Cells is a manufacturer of photovoltaic cells, established in 1999. Its core business is the development, production and marketing of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells....

|| Germany || - || - || 516 || 760 || 500³ || 253 || 389 || 570 || 551
|-
| || Malaysia || CdTe

Cadmium telluride

|| - || - || - || 300 || - || - || - || 20
|-
| || Germany (Calyxo) || - || 0 || 8 || 25 || 10 || 0 || 1 || 3¹ || 1
|-
| || Germany (Solibro) || - || 0 || 0 || 30 || 30 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 14
|-
| || Germany (Sontor) || - || 0 || 8 || 25 || - || 0 || 1¹ || 3.6 || -
|-
| Renewable Energy Corporation

Renewable Energy Corporation

The Renewable Energy Corporation is a solar power company with headquarters in Norway. REC produces silicon materials for photovoltaics applications and multicrystalline wafers, as well as solar cells and modules...

|| Norway || - || - || - || - || 150 || - || - || 80 || 115
|-
| Sanyo

Sanyo

is a major electronics company and member of the Fortune 500 whose headquarters is located in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan. Sanyo targets the middle of the market and has over 230 Subsidiaries and Affiliates....

|| Japan || - || - || 265¹ || 345 || 345 || 155 || 165 || 215 || 260
|-
| Schott Solar || Germany || - || 118 || 162 || 205 || 355 || 83 || 74 || 138 || 218
|-
| || USA || - || 14 || - || 15 || 15 || 13 || 10 || 11 || 11
|-
| Sharp

Sharp Corporation

is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. Headquartered in Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan, Sharp employs more than 55,580 people worldwide as of June 2011. The company was founded in September 1912 and takes its name from one of its founder's first...

|| Japan || - || - || 710 || 710 || 710 || 434 || 363 || 473 || 595
|-
| Solarday || Italy || - || - || 20 || 60 || 90 || - || 30 || 37 || 50
|-
| SolarPark Korea

SolarPark Korea

SolarPark Korea Co., Ltd. is a South Korean crystalline silicon module manufacturer. Founded in 2008 as a German-Korean joint venture, the company combines German and Korean machinery and engineering in its automated module fabrication lines...

|| South Korea|| Crystalline silicon || - || - || - || 170 || - || - || - || 90
|-
| SolarWorld

SolarWorld

SolarWorld is a German company dedicated to the manufacture and marketing photovoltaic products worldwide by integrating all components of the solar value chain, from feedstock to module production, from trade with solar panels to the promotion and construction of turn-key solar power plants...

|| Germany || - || - || 160¹ || 300¹ || 500¹ || 70 || 135 || 200¹ || 200¹
|-
| || USA || - || 55¹ || - || 100 || 250 || 20¹ || 35¹ || 30¹ || 50¹
|-
| Solland || Netherlands || - || - || 60 || 170 || 170 || 18 || 36 || 60 || 80
|-
| SunPower

SunPower

SunPower Corporation designs and manufactures high-efficiency crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, roof tiles and solar panels based on a silicon all-back-contact solar cell invented at Stanford University. SunPower Corporation is publicly traded on the NASDAQ as SPWRA and SPWRB...

|| Philippines || - || - || 214 || 414 || 574 || 63 || 100 || 237 || 397
|-
| || Malaysia || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || -
|-
| Suntech || China || - || - || 540 || 1000² || 1100 || 160 || 336 || 530² || 704
|-
| Sunways || Germany || - || - || 46 || 116 || 116 || 25 || 38 || 49 || 60¹
|-
| Trina Solar

Trina Solar

|| China || - || - || 110 || 350 || 600 || - || 29 || 210 || 399
|-
| United Solar Ovonic || USA || Multijunction photovoltaic cell

Multijunction photovoltaic cell

Multi-junction solar cells or tandem cells are solar cells containing several p-n junctions. Each junction is tuned to a different wavelength of light, reducing one of the largest inherent sources of losses, and thereby increasing efficiency...

|| - || 118¹ || 178¹ || 150 || 28 || 48 || 112.6 || 123.4
|-
| Yingli

Yingli

Yingli also known as Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited , which holds the brand Yingli Solar, is a solar energy company and one of the largest vertically integrated manufacturers of photovoltaic solar modules...

|| China || || - || 200 || 400 || 600 || 37 || 145 || 281.5 || 525.3
|-
|}
¹ Estimated production/capacity

² Plant closed in 2009.

³ Production greater than capacity due to closing of some production lines in mid-year.

⁴ Filed for bankruptcy on Aug 15, 2011

Other companies

Other notable companies include:

Ascent Solar
Ascent Solar
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. is a publicly traded solar energy company located in Littleton Colorado. Its primary product is a flexible thin film photovoltaic material on a plastic substrate...

, Tucson, Arizona, US
Anwell Solar
Anwell Technologies Limited
Anwell Technologies Limited is a supplier of manufacturing equipment with trading and manufacturing business in optical disc and solar cell. They vertically integrated into manufacturing business of optical disc and solar cell in 2007 and 2008...

, Hong Kong, China
DayStar Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, California, US
Global Solar
Global Solar
Global Solar Energy is a manufacturer of copper indium gallium diselenide thin-film solar cells, with manufacturing operations in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and Berlin, Germany.- Technology :...

, Tucson, Arizona, US
GreenSun Energy
GreenSun Energy
GreenSun Energy is a Jerusalem-based Israeli company that has developed a new process for producing electricity from solar energy. As The Economist points our, solar energy is a logical development since "Israel is a country with plenty of sunshine, lots of sand and quite a few clever physicists...

, Jerusalem, Israel
HelioVolt
HelioVolt
HelioVolt Corporation is a privately held U.S. energy company in the solar energy sector. It manufactures photovoltaic solar modules using a thin film semiconductor process based on Copper Indium Gallium Selenide to produce photovoltaic modules...

, Austin, Texas, US
International Solar Electric Technology
International Solar Electric Technology
International Solar Electric Technology, or ISET, is a company heavily invested in copper indium gallium selenide photovoltaics. ISET's research...

, Chatsworth, California, US
Isofotón
Isofoton
ISOFOTON is a global company, present in over 60 countries. ISOFOTON is involved in designing, manufacturing, and supplying Solar Energy products. Its activities are centered in three technology categories: Photovoltaic, Thermal, and High Concentration Photovoltaic.- History :ISOFOTON was founded...

, Malaga, Spain
Konarka Technologies, Inc.
Konarka Technologies, Inc.
Konarka Technologies, Inc. is a solar energy company based in Lowell, Massachusetts, founded in 2001 as a spin-off from University of Massachusetts...

, Lowell, Massachusetts, US
LDK Solar, Xinyu, China
Miasolé
Miasolé
MiaSolé is a solar energy company developing Copper indium gallium selenide thin-film photovoltaic products. MiaSolé's manufacturing process lays CIGS on a flexible stainless steel substrate...

, California, US
Mitsubishi Electric
Mitsubishi Electric
is a multinational electronics and information technology company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group....

, Tokyo, Japan
Moser Baer
Moser Baer
Moser Baer is the world's 2nd largest optical storage media manufacturer and supplies to the world's top dozen brands. They now make CD-R's for Memorex , TDK , Verbatim Sony and Agfa-Gevaert . They used to make CD-R's for Imation and Staples . The company was founded in New Delhi in 1983...

Photovoltaic, Delhi, India
Nanosolar
Nanosolar
Nanosolar is a developer of solar power technology. Based in San Jose, CA, Nanosolar has developed and commercialized a low-cost printable solar cell manufacturing process. The company started selling panels mid-December 2007, and plans to sell them at around $1 per watt...

, San José, California, US
Odersun
Odersun
Odersun AG is a German company which develops and manufactures thin-film solar cells and modules on copper tape specifically for building-integrated photovoltaics .- Company :...

, Frankfurt Oder, Germany
PowerFilm, Inc.
PowerFilm, Inc.
PowerFilm, Inc. is a publicly held energy company in the solar sector. It manufactures photovoltaic solar modules using a thin film semiconductor process. PowerFilm was founded in 1988 by Dr. Frank Jeffrey and Dr. Derrick Grimmer, former 3M research physicists with a combined 65 years of...

, Ames, Iowa, US
Pyron Solar, San Diego, California, US
Renewable Energy Corporation
Renewable Energy Corporation
The Renewable Energy Corporation is a solar power company with headquarters in Norway. REC produces silicon materials for photovoltaics applications and multicrystalline wafers, as well as solar cells and modules...

, Norway
Schott Solar
Schott Glass
SCHOTT AG is a German manufacturer of high-quality industrial glass products, its main markets are household appliances, pharmaceutical industries, solar energy, electronics, optics as well as automotive...

, Germany
Signet Solar
Signet Solar
Signet Solar was established in 2006 in Menlo Park, California. They produce photovoltaic modules, and have manufacturing plants in India and Germany. The modules are made using thin film silicon technology on large area glass substrates, referred to as Gen 8.5.-India:Signet Solar India, started...

, California, US
SolarEdge
SolarEdge
SolarEdge is a provider of power optimizer, solar inverter and monitoring solutions for photovoltaic arrays. These products aim to increase energy output through module-level MPPT...

, Grass Valley, California, US
SolarPark Korea
SolarPark Korea
SolarPark Korea Co., Ltd. is a South Korean crystalline silicon module manufacturer. Founded in 2008 as a German-Korean joint venture, the company combines German and Korean machinery and engineering in its automated module fabrication lines...

, Wanju, South Korea
SolarWorld
SolarWorld
SolarWorld is a German company dedicated to the manufacture and marketing photovoltaic products worldwide by integrating all components of the solar value chain, from feedstock to module production, from trade with solar panels to the promotion and construction of turn-key solar power plants...

, Bonn, Germany
Solimpeks
Solimpeks
Solimpeks is a Turkish company dedicated to manufacture and market solar thermal and photovoltaic thermal hybrid solar collectors worldwide. The company's broader product line is exported to 60 countries, with European Union countries comprising about 70% of sales.Solimpeks PV-T products are the...

, Munich, Germany
SoloPower
SoloPower
SoloPower is a solar energy company developing and manufacturing Copper indium gallium selenide Thin-film flexible Photo-voltaic Solar Panels...

, San José, California, US
Spectrolab, Inc.
Spectrolab
Spectrolab, headquartered in Sylmar, California, is a subsidiary of The Boeing Company that manufacturers space solar cells and panels. It is also a subsidiary of the Boeing Satellite Development Center, which is a unit of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. It was founded in 1956 by Alfred E. Mann,...

, Sylmar, California, US
Sulfurcell
Sulfurcell
German company Sulfurcell was formed in 2001 and makes thin film solar cells. The company was voted sixth on the inaugural Guardian/Library House "CleanTech 100" list, which showcased the best in European clean technology companies....

, Company has changed Name to Soltecture in 2011, Germany
SunEdison
SunEdison
Sun Edison LLC owns and operates power plants in North America and provides solar-generated energy to commercial, government, and utility customers. The company provides solar energy services, which include renewable power, monitoring, marketing, renewable portfolio standards, and solar tariff...
Sunetric
Sunetric
Sunetric is a Hawaii-based residential, commercial, and non-profit photovoltaic solar power company, and operates on all of the Hawaiian islands. The company was founded in 2004 as Suntech Hawaii by Sean Mullen, who is majority share holder in the company. Alex Tiller is the company's CEO...

, Hawaii, US
Suniva
Suniva
Suniva Inc. is a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar cells and high-power solar modules. Suniva's corporate headquarters and manufacturing plant, with a capacity of 170 MW, are located in Norcross, Georgia. -History:...

, Norcross, Georgia, US
Sun Power Corporation
SunPower
SunPower Corporation designs and manufactures high-efficiency crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, roof tiles and solar panels based on a silicon all-back-contact solar cell invented at Stanford University. SunPower Corporation is publicly traded on the NASDAQ as SPWRA and SPWRB...

, San Jose, California, US
Topray Solar
Topray Solar
Topray Solar is a vertically integrated solar energy company with global presences in Africa, Europe, Asia and North America. It is a publicly listed company on China Shenzhen Stock Exchange with a market cap over 1 Billion USD...

, China
Unirac
Unirac
Unirac is one of North America's largest providers of infrastructure for solar power systems for , and installations. The company provides a wide variety of photovoltaic array mounting solutions for solar panels for ground mount, tilt and flush roof mount, and open structure applications.With 30...

, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

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