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Interview with CEO
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SolarWorld

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Contents
What are the priorities at SolarWorld in 2017? Where and how is
our technology used? What sets us apart from the competition?
And what is our strategy for a successful future? The answers can
be found in this magazine. We hope you will enjoy reading it.

Sunny regards,
SolarWorld

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 Demand for solar power technology will keep growing in the years
ahead – but competitive pressure remains high for solar manufacturers. These
are the conditions that SolarWorld must respond to. For 2017, the company
has announced plans to boost its competitiveness by focusing entirely on
monocrystalline high-efficiency technology. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Frank Asbeck, founder
and CEO of SolarWorld AG, explains where the journey is headed.

Dr.-Ing. E. h. Frank Asbeck (57) founded SolarWorld AG in 1998.

The company has been listed on the stock market since 1999, as
one of the first solar power companies worldwide. Frank Asbeck
holds a 20.85 percent stake in SolarWorld. As CEO, he is responsible
for strategic group development, innovation, technology develop-
ment and public relations, including energy and environmental
policy.

Why is SolarWorld concentrating exclusively on

“We will keep growing –

high-performance technology from 2017 onward?

Because it has many benefits. Thanks to mono- What does focusing mean for the company?
crystalline PERC technology, our products offer

with the highest quality

outstanding efficiency. More important still is We are making SolarWorld fit to compete. The
this technology’s enormous potential for further performance and quality of our products need
efficiency gains in the future. It means we offer to keep rising, and at the same time our costs
customers more than our competitors. That has need to fall sharply. This can’t happen if we are

and power.”
always been our goal: SolarWorld customers get
more – proven quality, strong performance and
CEO Dr.-Ing. E. h. Frank Asbeck local customer service. The new focus on high-
on the future strategy of SolarWorld AG
performance technology means we are pursuing
this goal more forcefully than ever. Focusing
doesn’t mean we are shrinking. On the contrary:
This year, we want to set the foundations for
further growth by using our longstanding PERC
expertise. We will keep growing – with the highest
quality and power.
still trying to ride two horses at once. Previously,
we pursued both monocrystalline and multi-
crystalline technology. We offered a large number
of module versions and performance classes, and
our portfolio kept expanding. There were certainly
reasons for this in the past, but now we need to
focus all our energies on the technology that’s
best for us and our future competitiveness. As
a result, expenses will be reduced considerably
almost everywhere in the company.

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 What do customers get from SolarWorld
that they don’t get from the competition?

SolarWorld customers get premium quality for
25 years and more. A long service life, plus high
performance, guarantees the highest yields,
which means the electricity production costs are
particularly low. It makes me particularly proud
that our customers are completely convinced by
the quality of our modules. And this is a standard
that our employees at our production sites in
Germany and the U.S. work hard every day to
maintain. Up to 150 tests and checks ensure
SolarWorld quality. That’s a whole lot more than
industry standards require.
Which regions will SolarWorld be targeting?
I’ve always said: With SolarWorld, the name
speaks for itself. We are targeting the whole Which innovations are key for SolarWorld?
world. Of course, we have particular focus areas.
Firstly, our two home markets: Germany and the The fact that we are innovative and often look
United States. Then the European export markets, farther ahead than others is something that sets
such as France, where we are the market leader – us apart, along with quality. Mono-PERC is a very
thanks in part, incidentally, to our modules’ good starting point for innovations, because it is
low carbon footprint. Last year, we supplied a technology that can be combined with other
modules for the largest solar power system in efficiency-enhancing processes. One PERC-based
Sri Lanka. So we sell in Asia, too. This year, our development is bifacial cell technology. This is fea-
modules will be used to build a large solar park tured in our Bisun module, which collects sunlight
in Burkina Faso, Africa, just to name another on both sides, front and back. As a result, Bisun
example. Solar energy still has enormous growth gets a higher yield with the same cell efficiency.
potential worldwide. I’m thinking about the The first Bisun systems are now in operation. Our
hunger for energy not just in the industrialized research and development activities in this area
world, but especially in developing and emerging are ongoing. Then we are also seeing a trend
countries. These countries, too, are increasingly toward glass-glass modules. These are highly
discovering the economic attractiveness of so- attractive products, also for large-scale projects.
lar energy and rethinking their energy sources.
Through our Solar2World program, which has
run for more than 10 years, we show how solar Where will SolarWorld be in 2019?
energy can benefit people in developing parts
of the world. SolarWorld AG celebrates its 20th IPO anniversary
in 2019. Over these two decades, our company
has repeatedly undergone metamorphoses and
asserted itself in difficult situations. So I am confi-
dent that our focusing strategy will pave the way
for a successful future. We are planning to sell

“SolarWorld customers Are there customer segments where you see

a particularly high potential for SolarWorld?
around 2 gigawatts of solar modules in 2019, some
40 percent more than in 2016. Operationally, too,

get more – proven quality,

we expect to see a significant improvement and
Our customers rightly view us as experts in roof- return to operational profitability by then.
top systems, i.e. solar power systems on private

strong performance and homes. With limited roof space on people’s

houses, of course our quality and high-power
When I founded SolarWorld 20 years ago, I had
complete faith in the potential of solar energy,

local customer service.”

modules are much in demand. But we are also
seeing that aspects such as quality and high
power are becoming more important in the com-
mercial sector and for utilities. There is still a lot of
dormant potential for us in large-scale systems,
most of which are built by project developers for
investors. So we will focus more closely on this
business area in 2017 and beyond. We intend to
be equally active in all market segments.
even if few people at the time shared that belief.
Now, nobody can deny that solar power is here to
stay. Today, I am just as confident that quality and
power will prevail in this market – and so will we.
Interview by Romy Acosta,
SolarWorld AG, in early March 2017

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 UNITED STATES
VIRGINIA

MIDDLE EAST
SOLAR TEST FACILITY

More GERMANY

energy all round

BAVARIA

The power of the sun can be used more

efficiently than before – that is the idea
behind the newest technology at SolarWorld:
bifacial Bisun solar modules. They use
sunlight on the front and also on the rear.
The result is extra yield.

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 U.S. VIRGINIA

UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND

Bisun passes
8 % Capacity

real-life tests – worldwide extra yield 150 kWp

Around the world, the first systems using SolarWorld Bisun

modules went online in 2016. First results are impressive: These Flat roof system
modules have achieved additional yield – whether on a roof or on white film
ground-mounted over green grass or in a desert. Yield increases and white gravel
significantly, even in cases where the surface and mounting
systems are not specially adapted to bifacial technology.
A successful start for the new high-performance technology

GERMANY
by SolarWorld!

BAVARIA

22 % Capacity

91
extra yield 13 kWp

%
Ground-mounted
of customers system on sand
confirm: SolarWorld

United States
offers its
customers leading
solutions
MIDDLE EAST
SOLAR TEST FACILITY

Germany 10 % Capacity

extra yield 2 kWp

Ground-mounted
system on yellow gravel

Middle East

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 3x harvest””” Combine agriculture and photovoltaics:
Bisun makes it happen!

1 2 Power from
rear side
Power from
front side
3 Potatoes
from field

Agrophotovoltaics:
Pilot facility in Heggelbach, Germany

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 Food + energy
How can the Earth’s lands be used in such a way
that they provide sufficient food and energy?
With a rapidly growing world population and
climate change, this is becoming an increasingly
important question.
APV-RESOLA is a pilot project in Germany that
seeks answers. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Insti-
tute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and numerous
partners have combined energy generation with
food production on the same area. Over the next
three years, they will research the interaction
between photosynthesis and photovoltaics.
“The potential is
HEGGELBACH GERMANY
Ground-mounted Height
system on field 5m
7 % Capacity
extra yield 200 kWp
14
Pilot facility by Lake Constance
The research project’s pilot facility near Lake
Constance in Germany went online in September
2016. An organic farm community in Heggelbach
is growing a variety of crops in rotation – wheat,
trefoil-grass, celery and potatoes – on the field
directly underneath a solar power system. It is
also using 40 percent of the solar power for its
own needs.
enormous.”
What are the objectives of agrophotovoltaics?
Agrophotovoltaics aims to make a contribution to
promoting renewable energies and to protecting
the climate and fertile soil worldwide, without
impeding food production. We need to utilize land
that is currently used for agriculture if we want
the transition to renewable energies to succeed.
With this project, we will show how photovoltaic
systems can be installed in fields and meadows,
while keeping the land available for agriculture.
At the same time, we want to develop a marketable
product.
SO L ARWO R LD AG
”””
Interview with Stephan
Schindele, head of the
APV-RESOLA project at the
Fraunhofer Institute for
Solar Energy Systems (ISE)
in Freiburg, Germany
What are the benefits of bifacial solar modules in this context?
We are very pleased to be able to use SolarWorld bifacial modules
in this project. The technology is well-suited to agrophotovoltaics.
It offers three main advantages over conventional modules. First:
more power per unit of area. Distances between module rows need
to be larger in agrophotovoltaics than with a regular ground-mounted
system. The extra yield of modules partly makes up for this. The
second advantage has to do with construction regulations and safety.
You have people working the land underneath the solar installation.
Normally, this would mean that additional safeguards need to be
installed, generating extra costs. But on the bifacial modules, the
front and rear are made of safety glass. Just like a car windscreen,
the glass cannot shatter. The third advantage is beneficial to the
plants, as the modules are semi-transparent and more translucent
than conventional modules. We anticipate that the diffused light
will actually stimulate photosynthesis better than direct sunlight.
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What potential does
agrophotovoltaics have?
Agrophotovoltaics makes sense any-
where in the world where agricultural
land is scarce, and there is demand for
energy. In Germany, we have identified
a potential, in principle, of 50 gigawatts.
The potential for combining farming
with photovoltaics is enormous, yet
has hardly even begun to be exploited.
Self-consumption in farming could
conceivably be increased – by using
energy storage and electric farm ma-
chinery such as a solar-powered tractor.
In countries with strong solar radiation,
photovoltaics is already a more reliable
and cheaper option than diesel gener-
ators for powering irrigation systems.
Solutions like agrophotovoltaics are
needed to produce food in desert re-
gions, for example. Integrated systems
could come in here: Solar power is used
to desalinate water, which is then used
both to irrigate crops and clean the solar
modules. Cattle can graze in the shade
underneath the solar power system
and make the soil suitable for growing
plants. Agrophotovoltaics could make
the desert fertile.
Interview by Thorsten Meyer,
SolarWorld AG, in February 2017
Start film (in German):
www.agrophotovoltaik.de/english
15
 High-tech
with a heart
Solar2World brings a Haitian hospital
into the 21st century

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 “Hôpital Lumière” in Haiti
The “Hospital of Light” is located in Bonne Fin,
about 5.5 hours by vehicle from the from the
capital, Port-au-Prince. Seven years after the
“We wanted to provide this
disastrous earthquake, basic needs in Haiti are
still hard to meet.
charitable install with the same
high-quality solar modules we
use in the United States, and
SolarWorld helped make that
happen.”
John Smucker, a SolarWorld Authorized Installer.
Smucker’s Energy designed and built the system
at cost with a volunteer crew.

“The solar system came through amazing!

We were roughly 20 miles from the eye
of a category 4 hurricane and we did not
even break a panel.”
David Zimmerman – Facilities Director
of Hôpital Lumière after
Hurricane Matthew in October 2016

Solar2World
For the system at Hôpital Lumière,
SolarWorld donated 50 kWp of solar
modules. It’s the fifth Haitian hospital
now using solar power thanks to the
company’s Solar2World program.

Start film:

Diesel was yesterday Welcome to the 21st century One among 60,000 people
In the past, Hôpital Lumière relied on expensive and In February 2016, a solar system with SolarWorld modules For this young patient and the whole local population, the
faulty diesel generators. Power outages were common went online. Almost at the touch of a button, the hospital hospital is indispensable. The solar modules donated by
and often undermined patient treatment. moved out of the 19th and into the 21st century. SolarWorld now provide practically all of the hospital’s
energy needs – power for light, medical instruments and 10 years
proper medicine storage.
200+ projects
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 Excellent returns ENERGY RETURN &
CO2 OFFSET

for the environment 95

over 30 years

% ENERGY RETURN

of customers
agree: SolarWorld NEW DELHI, INDIA

SolarWorld modules have particularly short payback times:

has an
authenticfocus on SAN FRANCISCO, U.S.
106 TIMES

sustainability 99 TIMES
They swiftly recoup the energy used and CO2 released while they were
made. After 30 years, the result is excellent returns for the environment.

TOKYO, JAPAN

PAYBACK TIME FOR 64 TIMES

ENERGY AND CO2 MUNICH, GERMANY

 in months 47 TIMES
Energy payback times depend on the amount of
sunlight where the module is installed. A sun-
ENERGY nier location means more power, so the energy
3 NEW DELHI, INDIA used during production is recovered faster.

4 SAN FRANCISCO, U.S.

Within 30 years, energy generated has exceeded
6 TOKYO, JAPAN the energy used many times over!
8 MUNICH, GERMANY

2 YEARS 30 YEARS

19 MUNICH, GERMANY

18 SAN FRANCISCO, U.S. For greenhouse gases, the energy mix at

the module installation site comes into play. 19 TIMES
13 TOKYO, JAPAN
SAN FRANCISCO, U.S. 23 TIMES
Emissions released during production are
6 NEW DELHI, INDIA compensated for more quickly the more CO2 28 TIMES MUNICH, GERMANY

in the energy mix can be avoided. TOKYO, JAPAN

CO2
For example: The energy mix in Germany
contains more CO2-intensive energy sources
than the energy mix in California. So even
though the sun shines more in California, CO2
59 TIMES
emissions from manufacturing a solar module
NEW DELHI, INDIA
are offset just as quickly in Germany.

CO2 OFFSET

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 High power on a large scale

The excellent quality and high power of SolarWorld modules

pay off – on residential rooftops and also in large solar systems.
Their higher longevity and power lead to higher yields. And this
means lower costs for electricity generation. That’s why more
and more project developers all over the world are convinced
by SolarWorld’s high performance modules.

Free-field system
the Mojave Desert Nevada

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 NEVADA U.S.

17.5 MWp
A perfect fit
for the desert 92
of customers
% 33 GWh
power per year

CO2 savings
3,500
in the U.S.

SolarWorld modules are specially tested for their suitability say: SolarWorld is per year ≈
for deserts. So they are perfect for projects like the large- a responsible
scale system in the Mojave Desert, Nevada. Built in 2016,
19,000 t 1.5 million
partner you can trust
this solar park is carefully designed to preserve the habitat worldwide
of the endangered Desert Tortoise.

HAMBANTOTA SRI LANKA

25 MWp
40 GWh 35,000
power per year in Sri Lanka

CO2 savings
per year
≈
28,000 t 2.2 million

Solar power avoids CO2 emissions that

would be released during conventional
energy generation. CO2 savings depend
on the carbon intensity of the energy
mix in the respective country.

A fully grown beech tree trans-

forms 12.5 kg of harmful CO2 per
year by photosynthesis. So one tonne
of CO2 is compensated by 80 trees
growing in a year.

average
local household

… and tropical climates

More and more, Sri Lanka is using solar power to meet the
energy needs of its rapidly growing population and industry.
The largest solar power plant in the island country was in-
stalled in 2016 with quality modules from SolarWorld, whose
tested humidity tolerance makes them fit for tropical regions.

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 On the rooftops
of London Bywaters is recycling waste at its facility in Bow,
East London, helping to save natural resources
and to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Installing
a solar system with SolarWorld’s sustainably
produced modules on the facility’s rooftop was
a logical step.

LONDON UK

1 MWp
970 MWh 200
power per year in the UK

CO2 savings
per year ≈
500 t 40,000

BURSA TURKEY

43 kWp
60 MWh
power per year
25
in Turkey
… and Bursa
This office building in the Turkish city is equipped
CO2 savings
with modules from SolarWorld. They gene-
per year ≈
rate clean energy and enhance the modern
33 t 2,500 architecture’s aesthetics.

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 Higher yield PINEUILH FRANCE

In France, SolarWorld has a market share of

almost 30 percent and is the most popular 500 kWp
module brand. In the French solar market,
SolarWorld is competing successfully due to
its high quality modules and their especially
580 MWh 100
power per year in France
low carbon footprint. Power yield is also
impressive: For example, the energy output
CO2 savings
of the system in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, per year ≈
at 1,476 kWh/kWp, exceeds expectations
for this region. 45 t 3,500

… and more independence

The major French supermarket chain E.Leclerc is lowering its
energy dependence by using self-generated solar power. In
addition, customers can conveniently park their cars in the
cool shade underneath solar carports. Front and rear of the
SolarWorld Sunmodule Protect consist of safety glass, which
provides the necessary rooftop protection. The demand for
glass-glass modules in large-scale projects is increasing.

PORT-SAINT-LOUIS-
DU-RHÔNE FRANCE

6.7 MWp
10 GWh 3,200
power per year in France

CO2 savings
per year ≈
800 t 65,000

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 JERCHEL GERMANY

8.5 MWp Quality is the

Secure profits for
more than 20 years
The German project developer and owner
Energiebauern GmbH counts on quality “made
by SolarWorld.” In 2016, the company won various
tenders in Germany, in which solar modules
from SolarWorld were installed. For example, the
Jerchel solar park in the Saxony-Anhalt region
went online in November 2016.
8 GWh
power per year
2,400
in Germany
best guarantee
CO2 savings
per year ≈
Project developer and operator Energiebauern plays
it safe with SolarWorld
3,700 t 300,000 “We build our own large-scale solar projects,
which we operate ourselves for twenty years.
If the modules were to fail after just ten years, we
would suffer a huge financial loss. So quality is
what our company is built on,” explains Clemens
Höld, head of purchasing at Energiebauern
GmbH in Aichach, Bavaria.
Clemens Höld speaks from experience: The
owner-managed company has been in business
a long time. It currently holds a portfolio of solar
power systems across Germany, totaling more
than 100 MWp. Solar modules from different
manufacturers have been used over the years –
but SolarWorld exclusively since 2015. To date,
three projects with a total of 18.5 MWp have
been completed. The largest is at Jerchel in
Saxony-Anhalt.
Lower costs for quality control
The partnership with SolarWorld has a particular
advantage where quality is concerned. “If we buy
modules from China, we end up having to do far
more extensive quality control. With our Chinese
suppliers, we always monitored production
on-site, so that we could really be sure that our
standards were met – especially since it’s diffi-
cult to assert claims later on. Of course, that is
a cost that has to be factored into the purchase
price. With our German partner SolarWorld, we
cut all of that out, because we can be confident
that they fulfill our high quality criteria. The
German Technical Inspection Association TÜV
has confirmed this, too,” says Höld.
Even with SolarWorld modules, the company
wanted to verify the quality for themselves.
Apart from their own visual checks, samples
were sent off to TÜV, an independent test insti-
tute. The test results were excellent: The supplied
modules promise reliable yields for 20 years, and
well beyond that. Quality that pays for itself!

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 +85 °C

99
of customers
% 1,400 cycles = SolarWorld standard
for new products

state: SolarWorld
stands for proven
product quality

600 cycles = SolarWorld standard

Temperature change test

The essential extra

Solar modules are subjected to -40 degrees
Celsius and +85 degrees Celsius in the temper-
ature change test. Within 6 hours, they switch
from Siberian cold to the heat of the Sahara.
200 cycles = IEC standard
In the SolarWorld test lab, modules and their components are exposed SolarWorld goes way beyond the standard in
these tests: 3x for all SolarWorld modules and
to especially harsh conditions. SolarWorld conducts up to 150 different
up to 7x before product launches.
tests and checks and goes far beyond international standards. That is 1 cycle = 6 hours
the essential extra quality that guarantees reliable yields over 30 years.
Temperature shock test
Temperature shock tests simulate extreme
stresses over 30 years. For 30 minutes at a time,
rt
dese the module is alternately exposed to -40 degrees
for the
test ope
ld UV Eur Celsius and +85 degrees Celsius – simulating
Wor t for
olar te s rd day-night cycles in quick succession. Only mate-
/m²
S UV da
Wh o rld s tan
3,600 k larW IEC
²
rials and components that pass this extreme test
² So /m
/m h are permitted for use in a SolarWorld module.
kWh kW
00 15 Most low quality materials do not survive
1,5
5 percent of this number of cycles without
damage.

30 years x 3
65
d

ay
s
UV light aging tests
10,950
cycles
Exposure to intense UV radiation is part of the
job for a solar module. Besides simulating ex-
treme radiation, SolarWorld also tests aging over

1c
-40
30 years in a life cycle test and checks, among e=

yc
°C

l
other things, the performance trend. 2x
30 m
inutes

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SolarWorld at a glance Module
SolarWorld connects cells together to
form an outstandingly high-quality
and durable solar module. 60 or 72 cells
are wired into a matrix, before being
From crystal growing to the solar module, SolarWorld’s special quality embedded in a weatherproof glass and
film or glass/glass laminate. SolarWorld
standard is a thread that runs through the entire value chain. The result grants its customers a 20-year product

is high-power technology that satisfies customers worldwide. workmanship warranty and a 30-year
linear performance guarantee, because
the company is absolutely confident in
the quality of its products.

Cell
SolarWorld turns wafers into monocrys-
talline high-power cells using the PERC
process. With this leading technology,
SolarWorld can offer its customers particu-
larly high yields. On bifacial cells, the back Arnstadt Freiberg
Sales
of the cell is active too, which means even
With its international sales sites, SolarWorld
more of the sun’s energy can be utilized.
sells its technology around the world and is
Bonn
therefore close to its customers. Its largest
markets are the U.S. and Europe. SolarWorld
sells solar modules and complete systems
Grenoble for residential rooftops, commercial and
large-scale solar plants.
SolarWorld worldwide
Salisbury

Verona
Wafer
SolarWorld cuts the ingots into goss-
amer thin silicon slices, known as wafers.
SolarWorld uses diamond wire saws, a
Tokyo
modern technology that saves energy
and resources, minimizes breakages and Hillsboro Singapore
is thus more efficient and better for the
environment.
Qatar

Cape Town

Complete solution
SolarWorld offers its customers com-
plete solar energy solutions. SolarWorld
Ingot modules are combined with frames and
SolarWorld draws a crystal out of the glow- inverters and increasingly with battery
ing hot silicon melt. Once it cools down, this storage and intelligent energy manage-
round monocrystal will be cut into square ment systems, too. With reliable customer
blocks, called ingots. This is the first step service, SolarWorld helps its clients every-
toward making a long-lasting, high-efficiency where to build the solar world.
solar module.