Thursday, September 18, 2008

Solar: More Capacity- Kyocera: to spend $527 mln to up solar power output

Man, there's a lot coming on.
From Reuters:
Japan's Kyocera Corp (6971.T: Quote), the world's No.4 player in the solar power business, said on Thursday it would invest 55 billion yen ($527 million) to more than double its capacity to make solar power systems by March 2012. Kyocera, which compete against Sharp Corp (6753.T: Quote), Sanyo Electric (6764.T: Quote) and Germany's Q-Cells (QCEG.DE: Quote) in the solar business, aims to better position itself as rivals are also aggressively boosting capacity to meet growing demand....MORE