Talk:List of photovoltaics companies

Repeat request for ENF Link
Hello. One and a half years on from my previous request, I would like to request once again that a link to ENF (www.enf.cn) be added to the main page. We now have over 5,000 PV companies listed in our PV industry directory, and it is highly relevant to people searching for photovoltaic companies. I would highly appreciate an appropriate link.

Kit Temple (talk) 02:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Good idea to separate this big list out to a separate page

It would be an interesting upgrade to include where these companies play in the value chain, silicon, cells, modules, installation and operation. At minimum wafers cells and modules--Oldboltonian 18:07, 2 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Oldboltonian, I think this sort of Table, and discussion of the value chain, should be the basis of a new article entitled Photovoltaics commercialization. If you start the article, I would be happy to help with it. -- Johnfos 21:49, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

See my comment on the photovoltaics discussion page--Oldboltonian 19:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

List of weblinks, cruelly deleted from the PV cells article last year "Wikipedia is not a business directory" - no need to reinvent the wheel :)--Oldboltonian 19:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC) -

Manufacturers
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Business-side info
There is a much bigger list of hundreds of PV module and cell manufacturers to be found at www.enf.cn. I had some posts removed by someone who objected to me putting up a number of ENF links - so I would like to request that someone check the following links, and if they find them to be a valuable addition to the article, to please add them to the main article.


 * Directory of Solar Cell Manufacturers
 * Directory of Photovoltaic Panel Manufacturers

Kit Temple 13:53, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Anyone know if a company called "Girasolar" should be on the list? Their website (specifically the DutchSolar subsidary) shows various photovoltaic items for sale. The company has become quite and stopped releasing info though so hard to tell if they still have much of a presence in this buisness. Anyone here familiar with Girasolar? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.23.99.17 (talk) 01:00, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

China
I suggest also create a list by country, mainly about China, USA and Germany, because there is more and more producers of PV cells. I.e. in China thin-film manufacturers that have already started producing product, the list and specifications would include:
 * Amplesun Solar, production equipment provider Ulvac Inc, a-Si single
 * Astronergy Solar, Oerlikon, a-Si/μc-Si
 * Best Solar, Applied Materials, a-Si/μ-Si [ ]
 * ENN Solar, Applied Materials, a-Si
 * QS Solar, a-Si double
 * Tianwei SolarFilms, Oerlikon,  a-Si single
 * Trony Solar, self developed, a-Si double

--Nopetro (talk) 10:56, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Top ten manufaturerers 2008?
The list cannot be right: REC produced 542 MW in 2008. Langbein Rise (talk) 08:15, 7 April 2010 (UTC)


 * The link you supplied talks about silicon wafer production, not solar cell production -- they don't even make cells in Glomfjord and Herøya, the two manufacturing sites listed on the page you referenced. Most of their wafers were sold to other companies to be processed into solar cells. REC estimates that its customers should be able to produce a certain number of watts per wafer and multiplies by the number of wafers produced to arrive at a MW figure for the number of wafers produced. REC's own production of solar cells in 2008 was 135 MW -- or at least that's what REC reported to Photon International (the trade publication referred to in the article) for its market survey last year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Squirmymcphee (talk • contribs) 21:00, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Canadian Solar has no Canadian production
They claim they will be opening a line in Q1/11 with production samples Q2, but we've heard that before. All their existing production is in China. Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:22, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * In 2015 they have a 500 MW capacity plant in Ontario. --Robertiki (talk) 15:40, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Article falsified
The main page seems recently changed and I have the suspicion that the top tens are falsified. (Where is nr 1. Suntech?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.157.89.130 (talk) 12:40, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Resource
Manufacturing Glut Leads To Dark Times For Solar Sector DECEMBER 27, 2011, 1:29 PM ET by Yuliya Chernova Wall Street Journal (page B1 in print)

99.19.40.123 (talk) 09:43, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

recent edits
removed and reverted recent non-constructive and uncited edits by IP addresses — Preceding unsigned comment added by RichardMills65 (talk) 07:02, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Sunpower is an International company
Sunpower was bought by Total. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.239.44.65 (talk) 06:19, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Manufacturing and headquarters are in the United States. We could change to international ? --Robertiki (talk) 15:52, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

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