Aug 7 2010
Kyocera Corporation, a leading provider of solar power generating systems, has completed its new Yasu solar cell production facility in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, and its keenness to start production, has completed the testing of its production line.
The company with the largest installed domestic manufacturing facility will produce high power producing multi-crystalline solar cells.
The Kyocera Yasu Plant incorporates an improved type of production feature that is capable of producing solar cells with 16.9% energy conversion efficiency, considered to be the peak level energy efficiency, for bulk produced multi-crystalline solar cell. This new plant is expected to work along with the existing Kyocera Shiga Yohkaichi Plant to enable Kyocera to reach its annual production of 1 GW solar cells by March 2013.
Kyocera, with a plan of increasing its global presence and the global demand is planning to reach a production level of 600 MW this year, a clear increase of nearly 50 percent in production than the previous year. The company is also trying to increase the efficiency of the products by concentrating, in the improvement of cell conversion efficiency. Kyocera has introduced the world’s first mass manufactured multi-crystalline silicon solar cells during 1982 and has come a long way in increasing the efficiency of the solar cells.