Solar Valley

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Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 30 ″  N , 12 ° 13 ′ 20 ″  E

Solar Valley

As Solarvalley an industrial area in the district is Thalheim the city of Bitterfeld-Wolfen in Anhalt-Bitterfeld referred. It is located near the A 9 and Leipzig / Halle Airport .

It should not be confused with the Chinese Solar Valley (中国 太阳谷) of the same name in Dezhou, Shandong.

Exit the A 9 to Solar Valley

The production and storage facilities of various companies in the photovoltaic sector are or were on the main street known as Sonnenallee : Hanwha Q-Cells (formerly Q-Cells), Calyxo, Sontor , Solibro , Sovello (formerly EverQ) and CSG Solar . Q-Cells held various stakes in all companies. The companies CSG Solar, Sovello and Sontor have ceased business operations. After a merger, Sontor briefly traded as Sunfilm (2009), but then went bankrupt; under the management of the Wilms Group, operations were resumed as a Sontor and have since been discontinued. Solibro has been part of the Chinese Hanergy Group since 2012 . No investor could be found for CSG Solar and Sovello. Q-Cells produces and sells solar cells and modules based on crystalline silicon wafers; Sovello specialized in solar cells made from wafers using the string-ribbon process. Calyxo, Sontor, Solibro and CSG Solar are or were providers of various thin-film technologies; more precisely CdTe, tandem cells made of microcrystalline and amorphous thin-film silicon, CIGS and the "Crystalline Silicon on Glass" technology developed in Australia with a special circuit diagram. The process gave its name to CSG Solar.

At times over 3000 people were employed in the Solar Valley. Due to the increasing competition from Asia, Q-Cells filed for bankruptcy with the subsidiary Solibro and Sovello in 2012. Solibro has now been transferred to the Chinese energy group Hanergy . Q-Cells was sold to the South Korean group Hanwha . 1300 of the former 1500 jobs are to be retained. No investor was found for Sovello and the formation of a transfer company for the employees failed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Solibro now in Chinese hands. In: Handelsblatt. September 26, 2012, accessed November 22, 2012 .
  2. ↑ South Korean company takes over Q-Cells. In: time. August 29, 2012. Retrieved November 22, 2012 .
  3. ↑ ROUNDUP: Hanwha announces strategies for Q-Cells. (No longer available online.) In: Stern. October 24, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 22, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stern.de
  4. ↑ Sovello solar company fires all employees. In: FAZ. August 21, 2012. Retrieved November 22, 2012 .