Global Solar Energy Forges Strategic Partnerships to Bring PowerFLEX(TM) BIPV to U.S. Rooftops

TUCSON, Ariz., Oct 13, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Global
Solar Energy, a heading manufacturer of stretchable solar technology
and building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) solutions, announced today
that it has partnered with several heading building and roofing
companies in a U.S., serve expanding a accessibility of PowerFLEX(TM)
BIPV, a many absolute solar thatch procedure on a market.

Global Solar is partnering with Beachside
Solar, a largest blurb thatch executive in Hawaii and the
South Pacific region; Inovateus,
a inhabitant solar appetite distributor and integrator; Pfister
Energy, a warden renewable appetite systems provider; and Soprema,
a manufacturer in a blurb thatch and waterproofing industry. As
pivotal players in a U.S. industrial building and rooftop industries,
these partner companies will now confederate a Global Solar PowerFLEX
BIPV procedure into vast scale installations.

Global Solar is showcasing a PowerFLEX BIPV procedure during counter #7157 during Solar
Power International 2011, holding place Oct 17 — 20 in Dallas,
Texas.

PowerFLEX BIPV panels offer a some-more cost-effective choice to
normal complicated and firm potion modules, as good as other stretchable PV
products. Additionally, PowerFLEX BIPV is lightweight, fits all roof
shapes, and requires no roof perforations or ascent hardware. The
procedure is means to boost a value of any rooftop by improved
roof aspect coverage, high efficiency, and glorious low light
performance. By integrating PowerFLEX BIPV into their offerings, Global
Solar partners can offer a solar resolution with twice a appetite of
choice roof modules.

“Through a quick and seamless formation into thatch systems,
PowerFLEX BIPV creates a constrained new solar appetite charity for
blurb and industrial buildings,” pronounced Jean-Noel Poirier, chief
sales officer, Global Solar Energy. “These new collaborations come on
a heels of partnerships
we’ve determined via Europe, and will assistance Global Solar meet
a augmenting direct for a products here in a U.S. Through a work
with many of a world’s heading building and thatch companies we look
brazen to a swell of new projects regulating PowerFLEX BIPV in a near
future.”

The Global Solar PowerFLEX BIPV row offers a elementary integration, large
format and high-power firmness that emanate low designation and balance
of complement (BOS) costs. The procedure rolls out prosaic onto a roof, so it
can be commissioned in a margin regulating supposed thatch practices,
expelling breeze bucket concerns and dramatically shortening costs.
Additionally, strange apparatus manufacturers (OEMs) can take advantage
of a flexible, high-efficiency characteristics of PowerFLEX BIPV to
rise innovative, integrated, and value-added BIPV products for their
possess production lines and marketplace channels.

“These collaborations serve settle Global Solar as a leading
choice in a BIPV industry, and a goal continues to be to help
buildings easily, and cost effectively optimize their rooftops for
clean, solar appetite generation,” continued Poirier.

About Global Solar Energy

Since a first in 1996, Global Solar has emerged as a personality in
stretchable Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) skinny film solar cell
technology. CIGS skinny film record is lightweight and highly
efficient. Global Solar’s skinny film solar cells are incorporated into a
accumulation of applications trimming from lightweight unstable solar
chargers, normal potion solar modules, and building integrated
photovoltaic (BIPV) products and designs.

Global Solar manufactures CIGS cells and modules in dual full scale
comforts in Tucson, Arizona, USA and in Berlin, Germany, and
distributes worldwide.

SOURCE: Global Solar Energy

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