SEMI PV Group - The Grid, July 2011 IN THIS ISSUE Fraunhofer ISE Celebrates 30th Anniversary Clean Technologies Trade Mission to India /SOLARCON India PV Quality Assurance Workshop Presentations Available India's PV Future PV Standards Update: July 2011 Maturing Printed Electronics Infrastructure Enables Solar/Memory Markets Flexible OPV Modules Sharpen Market's Growth Curve PV Group Public Policy: Working with Federal, State and Local Governments ITT Bombay and SEMI India Present Short Course: Solar PV Power Systems CALENDAR Oct 5-7 PV Taiwan 2011 Nov 9-11 SOLARCON India 2011 Dec 5-7 PVJapan 2011 (NEW DATES!) PARTNER EVENTS SolarTech: Take the 2011 Solar Challenge! Oct 13-14 Conferencia de la Industria Solar - España 2011 Call for Papers: Conferencia de la Industria Solar - España 2011 Nov 30-Dec 1 PV Power Plants - USA 2011 Feb 9-10, 2012 OTTI: PV Rollout 2012 Fraunhofer ISE Celebrates 30th Anniversary This year the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Europe’s largest solar energy research institute, celebrates its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1981 and led by SEMI International Board member Dr. Eicke Weber, Fraunhofer ISE today has over 1100 employees and national and international clients from a wide range of business sectors and company sizes. The Institute is integrated into a network of national and international co-operation. Among others, it is a member of Solar Energy Research Association (Forschungsverbund Sonnenenergie) and the European Renewable Energy Centres (EUREC) Agency. There is particularly close co-operation with the Albert Ludwig University (Material Research) in Freiburg, where Weber also teaches. (more) Clean Technologies Trade Mission to India /SOLARCON India The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) International Trade Administration (ITA), U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service (CS) is organizing a Clean Technologies Trade Mission to India on November 7-11 2011. PV Quality Assurance Workshop Presentations Available The goal of the forum was to define a concept for creation of standards that allow stakeholders to quickly assess a module's ability to withstand regional stresses. Next meeting at EU PVSEC in Hamburg. Advertisement India's PV Future By Vincent Kapur, ISET Recently, India has become a hot topic among those looking for the next big market to emerge for photovoltaics. PV technologies are being imported to India from other nations with vastly different fundamental energy situations. PV Standards Update: July 2011 By Kevin Nguyen, SEMI The SEMI Photovoltaic (PV) Standards Committee recently met at Intersolar North America in San Francisco, California. Eight of eleven balloted documents were approved by the committee, and will be published pending procedural review. Maturing Printed Electronics Infrastructure Enables Solar/Memory Markets Reduced costs - not increased performance - will largely drive solar module-makers' adoption of new non-active materials technologies. Flexible OPV Modules Sharpen Market's Growth Curve By Alex Carter, Lux Research With only a handful of small demonstration products shipped to date, the current market for organic photovoltaic (OPV) modules is essentially zero. That will almost certainly change over the next decade. ITT Bombay and SEMI India Present Short Course: Solar PV Power Systems By Debasish Choudhury, SEMI SEMI India today announced the launch of the "Solar Workforce Development" program in collaboration with IIT-Bombay/NCPRE, Mumbai.

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