Toshiba’s new lithium-ion battery plant is completed
Toshiba held completion ceremony on 29th for a built in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture, a new type of lithium battery factory. Investment in the plant is about 250 billion yen. Areas such as electric vehicles, lithium-ion battery market is expected to be expand, Toshiba hopes to prepare early, timely response to surge in demand and product upgrades.
The new plant put into operation in spring 2011. Initial capacity of 500,000 per month, monthly capacity during the year 2011 to 100 million.
Toshiba's new lithium-ion batteries can also be used forklifts and electric motor. Companies strive to put the year 2015 a new lithium-ion battery business, total sales increased to 200 billion yen, the future will work with Mitsubishi Motors R & D of new batteries.
China solar battery panel manufacturers develop new energy markets in South Africa
China's largest solar panel manufacturers - Suntech Power Company (Suntech Power Holdings) recently signed an agreement with the South African side will be in South Africa in building capacity of 100 megawatts of solar power plants. The project will greatly promote the development of clean energy industry in South Africa. According to the experts estimate, the project's total investment is expected to reach 350 million-400 million U.S. dollars. This is the largest project undertaken by far China's new energy companies in South Africa.
Also, Prior to this, China's largest wind power producers - Long Yuan Electric Power Group (Longyuan Power Group) began in South Africa in the wind energy project construction.
Ocean Motor: electric drive vehicles to establish new energy company
o further strengthen the Company and the Beijing Institute of Technology to promote civilian electric and hybrid vehicles in the motor drive system in the development and industrialization of cooperation. September 21th, 2010, the company invested 30 million yuan, with the Beijing Institute of Technology Asset Management Limited (to be invested 20 million yuan in technology) with a Beijing Beijing Workers Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.. The proposed joint venture company is mainly engaged in new energy drive system technology research and development, licensing, and production and sales of related products.
Ocean Motor (002,249) (002,249, the closing price 30.58 yuan) 29 announcement, the company invested 30 million yuan to be in cash, the North University of assets to technology investment company jointly invested 20 million yuan in Beijing working the ocean, the company's total registered capital of 60 new companies %. Beijing Workers engaged in ocean drive system of new energy technology research and development, licensing, and production and sales of related products.
Taiwan’s largest solar batter factory expands the production
Motech Taiwan's largest solar power plant will start major expansion, including the two sides to expand production capacity of solar batteries and other projects, estimated to be about ten billion yuan invested NT.
Motech Huai, chairman of the left element, said Motech sides scheduled end of this year reached 10 billion watts of solar battery production capacity of the building, is currently ahead of schedule, by the end of the actual total capacity of up to 1.15 billion watts, 15% over the target. According to Taiwan's industry estimates, next year, Taiwan Motech solar battery production capacity, at least 17 gigawatts of take-off and may even challenge 20 billion watts.
South Korean companies to actively promote the well-known mass production of solar batteries
South Korea began to actively promote the well-known manufacturers of mass production of solar batteries. South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries (HyundaiHeavy Industries Co., Ltd.) 2011 annual production scale will be expanded to an annual output of 600MW, 2012 ,and will be expanded to an annual output of 1GW. Including South Korea's Samsung Electronics (Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd.) Plans, including the Samsung Group in 2020 prior to the solar cell business has invested about 420 billion yen, the whole group the size of the total production number of GW modules. The group also recently built in the polycrystalline silicon solar battery production and sales of the internal supply chain.
However, the production scale of South Korean firms and the performance of solar battery modules and the world's top companies still pales in comparison. United States and China have reached an annual output of 1GW of several large-scale manufacturers. Conversion efficiency, Samsung's silicon and thin film silicon hybrid unit is 19%, 18% for silicon-based batteries, thin film CIGS-based unit of compound classes is 11%. Also lower than the level of the world's top 3 to 4 percentage points.