PennWell launches Photovoltaics World Magazine and exhibitions

November 25, 2008--PennWell Corporation (Tulsa, OK), a diversified global media and information company and parent of Laser Focus World (Nashua, NH), is launching Photovoltaics World magazine to address the rapidly growing global photovoltaic solar-cell manufacturing industry. The first issue of the bi-monthly magazine will be published in March 2009.

PennWell also announced two new Photovoltaics World Exhibitions, to be held in the U.S. and Europe in 2010, in conjunction with the company's existing Renewable Energy World Conferences & Exhibitions.

By 2020, about 50,000 MW (50 GW) worth of photovoltaic (PV) systems will be installed annually, up by a factor of nearly 20X from 2,538 MW in 2007. By 2010, as many as 400 production lines in the world that can produce at least 1 MW of PV cells per year will be in place, representing a fourfold increase from about 90 to 100 production lines in 2007.

Photovoltaics World is a natural extension of the coverage of the photovoltaics/solar-cell industry by several PennWell brands, including Solid State Technology, Renewable Energy World, Laser Focus World and Power Engineering. "PennWell is in a unique position among publishing companies in that we already have strong brands devoted to renewable energy, photonics and solid-state devices," said Robert F. Biolchini, PennWell president and CEO. Biolchini added that PennWell's Technology Group based in Nashua, NH under Christine Shaw, senior VP, will manage the launch.

In addition to a bimonthly print magazine, the Photovoltaics World launch will include a dedicated website and a weekly newsletter, PV Times. Coverage for a planned circulation exceeding 20,000 readers will focus on solar-cell design and manufacture, including cells made of multi-, mono- and nano-crystalline silicon, amorphous thin-film silicon, cadmium telluride, copper indium diselenide (CIS) and GaAs. Multijunction cells and concentrator technology will also be covered.

--Posted by Gail Overton

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