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Sharp to double solar cell output in UK | Reuters

(Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp is investing almost 4 billion yen (29.4 million pounds) at a plant in Britain to double production of solar cell modules to meet growing demand across Europe.

Sharp Solar UK, which began making cells at the plant in Wrexham, Wales in 2004, said it was also seeing increased demand from the British market following the introduction of subsidies for renewable energy installations in April.

"This time last year 99 percent of the modules that we manufactured at Wrexham were exported to Europe and that has already dropped to 90 percent," Andrew Lee, General Manager of Sharp Solar told Reuters.



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jul 29th, 2010 at 06:21:08 PM EST
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Wouldn't it make more sense to buy it in europe, but install it in the Sahara ?

If you don't want to transmit it to europe as electric, make a transportable commodity using electrical power such as industrial alcohol or ammonia fertilizer that is currently made using petro-chemical processes

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jul 30th, 2010 at 06:33:29 AM EST
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