Deutsche Solar AG
Berthelsdorfer Straße 111 A
09599 Freiberg
Tel.: +49 (0) 3731 3010; Fax: +49 (0) 3731 3014322

CEO: Prof. Dr. Peter Woditsch
CTO: Dipl.-Ing. Boris Klebensberger
Employees: Approx. 350

Deutsche Solar AG located in Freiberg, a subsidiary of Solar World AG, is one of the largest producers of mono and multicrystalline silicon wafers in Europe.
In 2005 the company achieved a turnover of €130 million; sales of wafers increased 26% from the previous year to 142 Megawatts. Number of employees increased in the same year by 20% to 489.
By 2007, the wafer manufacturing capacity of Deutsche Solar is to be increased to 240 MW.

The main regional markets are Germany at approx. 60%, other European countries at approx. 8%, Asia/Australia at approx. 28% and USA at 2% of sales. Deutsche Solar AG is present in all main PV markets worldwide.

FERRO Wärmetechnik GmbH

Am Kiefernschlag 1 Rethelstr. 51b
91126 Schwabach 01139 Dresden
Tel.: 09122/9866-0; Fax: 09122/9866-33 Tel.: 0351/85109-0; Fax: 0351/85109-33
www.ferro-waermetechnik.de

MD: Herbert Müller
No. Employees: 5

In conjunction with producing partners throughout Europe, Ferro offers a complete range of advanced heating technology with an emphasis on solar thermal energy. The company which focuses on the European market develops future-oriented, European-approved, marketable products for a comprehensive and balanced product range in the heating technology and solar sector, both with their own team and in close cooperation with research and development departments of the producing partners.

MEREG GmbH

Grüner Ring 15
04509 Delitzsch
Tel.: +49 342 023 098 70 / Fax: +49 342 023 098 77
www.mereg.de

Main office:
BIC Business Innovation Center
Karl-Heine-Str. 99
04229 Leipzig
Tel.: +49-341-4912-481; Fax: +49-341-4912-482

MD: Dipl.-Ing. Detlef Schulz
No. Employees: 8

As a technology company, Mereg develops and produces yield-optimised solar systems. The PV cell production capacity will be expanded to approx. In 2005 the company achieved a turnover of € 7.7 million. 10 megawatt and the module production capacity to 17 MW in 2006. In the solar thermal energy sector, the new SOLAMI® technology promises 30-70% greater profitability compared to standard solar technology.

Wartburg 1
09514 Lengefeld
Tel.: 03 73 67 / 8 42 09; Fax: 03 73 67 / 8 42 32
www.retec-d.de

MD: Wolfgang Oehme & Ullrich Käppler
No. Employees: 9

RETEC GmbH, located in Lengefeld, was established in 1993, and produces components for regenerative energy technology in the solar thermal energy, photovoltaics and wood heating sectors. With this technology the company offers year-round heating for buildings and hot water production.

Solar World AG

Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 12-14
53113 Bonn
Tel.: 0228 / 55 92 0 - 0 ; Fax: 0228 / 559 20 99

www.solarworld.de

CEO: Dipl.-Ing. Frank H. Asbeck
Employees: approx. 1500 (worldwide)

With headquarters in Bonn and its largest subsidiary in Freiberg, Solar World AG has, in a few short years, become one of the world’s leading solar companies, with a unique integrated solar value-added process, from raw material to wafers, cells, modules all the way to complete, high-quality solar power systems. In the last year alone, the corporation turnover increased by 75% to € 355 million. Wafer production is expected to be expanded to 220 MW this year.

Solarion GmbH / Photovoltaik

Ostende 5
04288 Leipzig
Tel.: +49 (0) 34297 14 794; Fax: +49 (0) 34297 15 031
www.solarion.de

MD: Walter Andress
No. Employees: 9

The areas of activity of Solarion GmbH, founded in April 2000, are developing, manufacturing and marketing flexible thin film solar cells, which are based on a new technology for manufacturing highly absorbent CIGS semiconductor connection.
Solarion GmbH aims to become a technology leader in the industrial production of Copper-Indium-Gallium-Diselenide thin film solar cells on flexible mounting materials. Although the company is currently in the pilot production phase, Solarion GmbH is already becoming an international provider of flexible DIGS thin film photovoltaics in its sector.

SOLARWATT AG

Maria-Reiche-Straße 8
D-01109 Dresden
Tel.: + 49 351 88 95 – 0; Fax: + 49 351 88 95 - 111
www.solarwatt.de

Board: Dr. Frank Schneider, Lothar Schlegel, Falk H. Sand
Employees: approx. 400

SOLARWATT, established 1993, works on the technical methods of producing, converting and utilising regenerative energy, in particular photovoltaics (PV). The company mainly develops and produces solar modules from crystalline silicon cells using laminated technology and correspond-ing system components.

VON ARDENNE Anlagentechnik GmbH

Plattleite 19/29
01324 Dresden
Tel.: +49 351 2637-300; Fax: +49 351 2637-308
www.vonardenne.biz

President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Dipl.-Phys. Robin Schild,
Employees: approx. 250
The system technology company (2005 turnover: € 58.6 million), a subsidiary of the former “Manfred von Ardenne” research institute primarily works on developing, manufacturing and selling vacuum systems for production, pilot and R&D applications, including the related measuring, control and regulating systems for pre-treating, coating and post-processing of wafers etc.

Roth & Rau AG

Gewerbering 3
OT Wüstenbrand / 09337 Hohenstein-Ernstthal
www.roth-rau.de

Turnover 2005: approx. € 25 Mio
Employees 2005: approx. 80

The company manufactures equipment and componenets for for industrial applications and R&D. Hartstoffbeschichtung (Lohnarbeit) und Bau von Hartstoffbeschichtungsanlagen.
Development of components and process systems using plasma and ion beam technology for the coating, structuring and modification of surfaces for the PV industry (also automotive and Semi-conductor industry) and for R&D. The company’s main product is equipment for PV, eg. anti-reflective coatings for crystalline silicon solar cells, plasma etching systems and fully automated turnkey solar cell manufacturing lines

CHOREN Industries GmbH

Frauensteiner Straße 59
09599 Freiberg
Telefon: +49 (0)3731 26 62-0; Telefax: +49 (0)3731 26 62-25
www.choren.com/de

MD: Tom Blades, Dr. Carlhans Uhle
Employees: approx. 100

CHOREN industries is one of the world’s leading providers of gasification technology for solid biomass and carbonaceous waste material.
The worldwide patented Carbo-V® process, which allows these materials to be converted to absolutely tar-free combustion or synthesis gas, is the heart of the company. This facilitated the breakthrough of biomass as an energy source. In addition to producing electricity and heat, the process is also suitable for producing fuels such as sun diesel. The planned production capacity for the first industrial plant to produce such synthetic fuels is 15,000 t.p.a and is to be commissioned in 2007.

Epas ressourcenschonende Produkte GmbH

Zweinaundorfer Str. 207
04316 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0)341 9 90-38 43; Fax: +49-(0)341 9 90-40 03
www.epas-gmbh.com

MD: Dr. Lutz Pasemann

Epas produces and develops Stirling motors based on their own patents. Their main products are the EPAS Stirling S 400, a Stirling motor fed with thermal radiation from the sun by an approx. 2 m² parabolic mirror, and the EPAS Stirling BM 1000 in the solid biomass sector, a 1000 watt Stirling motor heated with the exhaust heat from a wooden pellet furnace and connected to a power generation system.

Biocalor Energie aus Biomasse GmbH

Tuchmachergasse 1
04668 Grimma
Tel.: (+49) 34 37 / 94 83 19
www.biomassebrenner.de

MD: Herr Jens Liebscher
No. Employees: 4

Biocalor Energie aus Biomasse GmbH was established in December 2005 and manufactures mobile compact cogeneration plants for generating heat energy from wood chips.

Mothermik Motorenheizkraftanlagen
Chemnitz GmbH

Obere Hauptstraße 180
09228 Wittgensdorf
Tel. +49 (0) 37200/88282; Fax +49 (0) 37200/88283
www.mothermik.de

The medium-sized company manufactures mobile cogeneration plants for generating power from wood; however, it only has a customer service centre branch office for East Germany in Chemnitz.

RETEC- Regenerative Energieanlagen GmbH

See above.

BSVG Biostoffverwertungsgesellschaft Klix GmbH

Hauptstraße 59
02694 Großdubrau OT Klix
Tel.: 035934 / 480; Fax: 035934 / 4819
www.bsvg-klix.de

MD: Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Breuer
No.Employees: 8

The company produces and sells wood pellets.

Pellinos Holzpellets

Dresdner Straße 14a
09526 Pfaffroda-Hallbach
Tel.: 037360 / 66 97 23
www.pellinos.de

MD: Gunter Spiegelhauer
No. Employees: 6

Since the establishment of a new pelleting plant on the Pfaffroda-Hallbach site in 2003, the company has produced wood pellets with an annual production capacity of approx. 15000 tonnes.

CHOREN Industries GmbH

See above

Future Energy GmbH

Halsbrücker Strasse 34
09599 Freiberg
Telefon: +49 (0)3731 785300; Telefax: +49 (0)3731 785352
www.future-energy.de

MD: Dr. Manfred Schingnitz
No. Employees: approx. 60

Future Energy emerged from the German Fuel Institute in Freiberg and runs one of the best-equipped R&D gasification centres worldwide. Its activities concentrate on carbon gasification to energy, liquids and chemicals, chemical recycling and biomass gasification to liquid fuels.

Institut für Energetik und Umwelt Leipzig gGmbH

Torgauer Str. 116
04347 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0)341 2434-112; Telefax: +49 (0)341 2434-133
www.energetik-leipzig.de

MD: Prof. Martin Kaltschmitt
No. Employees: 50

The Institut für Energetik und Umwelt GmbH is primarily an interdisciplinary research institute, but also processes engineering contracts from private and state clients.
Its major areas are development, improvement, optimisation and evaluation of energy and environmental process, methods and systems via theoretic and practical works, particularly in the gasification field, and initiation, implementation moderation and coordination of major joint projects at regional, national and international levels.

Biowerk Sohland

Am Gewerbering 6
02689 Sohland a.d. Spree (Landkreis Bautzen)
Telefon: +49 (0)35936 4550; Telefax: +49 (0)35936 45529
www.biowerk-sohland.de

MD: Ralph Münzberg

Since mid-2002 Sohland has been producing biodiesel.

CHOREN Industries GmbH

see above

eab group

Frauensteiner Straße 118
09599 Freiberg
Tel.: +49 (0) 37 31 / 26 08 – 0; Fax: +49 (0) 37 31 / 26 08 - 26
www.eab-group.de

Employees: approx. 50

eab technology group, created from heliotec Energiesysteme GmbH, consists of 11 economically separate companies. The corporation’s wide range of activities includes services from project development for wind farm locations to complete production of wind farms and transformer stations and administration and management of wind parks.
In cooperation with partners, the corporation has to date installed over 150 wind farms in Germany. International activities have been expanded, especially in the Czech Republic, Brazil and Italy since 2005.

Setec GmbH

Kunzer Marktweg 5
D-01468 Boxdorf Dresden
Tel.: +49 (0) 351-896-220; Fax: +49 (0) 351-896-2222
www.setec-dresden.de

MD: Fritz Fahrner

Setec develops and produces frequency converters and control systems for wind power turbines and rotor blades.

SIAG Tube & Tower GmbH

Kamenzer Straße 3
04347 Leipzig
Tel. 03 41 / 23 91 – 0; Fax: 03 41 / 23 91 - 41 1
www.siag.de

MD: Herr Krebs
No. employees: approx. 120

Siag has developed into one of the main providers for steel products for wind power technology in recent years (wind power towers, machine bearers, components). They produce over 150 steel towers up to 100 m in length each year.

VEM Sachsenwerk GmbH

Pirnaer Landstraße 176
D-01257 Dresden

Tel.: +49-(0)351-208-0 / Fax: +49-(0)351-208-1028
sachsenwerk@vem-group.com

MD: Dr. Susanne Friez, Dr. Dietmar Puschkeit, Gerhard Freymuth
No. Employees: approx. 460
Turnover 2005 : € 64 Million

The company produces wind-power generators (produces drive line systems and components for a range of sectors).

Vestas Central Europe A/S
Niederlassung Ost

Lessingstraße 4
08058 Zwickau
Tel.: +49 37 52 75 91 0; Fax: +49 37 52 75 91 20
www.vestas.de

Vestas Central Europe A/S, with headquarters in Husum and an eastern branch office in Zwickau, is a subsidiary of the Vestas Wind Systems A/S corporation, the world market leader among wind farm manufacturers. The main business activities of Vestas, which in Germany employs around 1,000 persons, include development, production, sales, marketing, installation and maintenance of wind power systems. The company has a market share of 20% (in MW) for installation, in 2005 a turnover of over € 650 million and employs a staff of approx. 1000 in Germany.

HSI Turbinenstahlbau Dresden - Übigau GmbH

Werftsstraße 5
01139 Dresden
Tel.: 0351 / 47 98 460; Fax: 0351 / 47 98 462
www.hsi-dresden.de

MD: Roland Brik

The company is active in turbine steel construction, for water power plants, among others.