United Solar Ovonic LLC (Uni-Solar Ovonic), a leader in thin-film amorphous-silicon solar technology and a subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENER), received an order for 1.25 MW of photovoltaic (PV) panels from Sunset Energietechnik GmbH (Sunset) of Germany.
Sunset also signed a letter of intent to purchase 5 MW of UNI-SOLAR products over the next 24 months. The products will be used by Sunset to address Germany's expanding grid-connected PV market.
Sunset is a leading German supplier of PV systems. It chose the UNI-SOLAR modules because of their ruggedness, shadow tolerance and superior performance both at high temperature and under cloudy and low light conditions typical of Germany's climate conditions. qww.sunset-solar.com