The new assembly line, to be installed by late 2009 at one of Sanyo’s two solar-cell production facilities in western Japan, will boost the company’s total annual solar-cell output 26% to 430 megawatts (MW).
Sanyo says the expansion comes “in anticipation of an active demand for photovoltaic systems worldwide stimulated by economic packages under ‘Green New Deals’”.
First developed by Sanyo in the early 1990s, HIT solar cells are a hybrid technology, utilising a layer of monocrystalline silicon and thin-film amorphous silicon.
