Kyocera Corp announced that it has completed its second plant for polycrystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
Also, the company upwardly revised its production plan, aiming to increase the production volume to 1GW in fiscal 2012.
The floor area of the new plant is 68,151.88m2, which is 1.5 times larger than that of the existing plant. And the productivity of the new plant is 20% higher than that of the existing plant. It will start production of polycrystalline silicon PV cells whose cell conversion efficiency is 16.9%, 0.4% higher than that of Kyocera's existing product, in June 2010.
The conversion efficiency was improved by reducing the thickness of the electrode to increase the light-receiving area and lowering the resistance of the electrode. The new plant will also be used for the research and development of new PV cells.
Kyocera revised up its planned production volume from 550MW to 600MW for fiscal 2010 and from 650MW to 800MW for fiscal 2011. And it aims to produce 1GW of PV cells in fiscal 2012 to meet increasing demands for residential PV cells in Japan and PV cells for large facilities outside Japan. The expected production volume in fiscal 2009 is 400MW.
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