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Nanosolar Ships First Panels
December 18, 2007

After five years of product development – including aggressively
pipelined science, research and development, manufacturing process
development, product testing, manufacturing engineering and tool
development, and factory construction – we now have shipped first
product and received our first check of product revenue.

We are grateful to everyone who supported us through all these years
and the many occasions where there appeared to be mile-high concrete
walls in our path; the unusual intensity and creativity of our team
deserves all the credit for achieving this major milestone today.

Our product is defining in more ways I can enumerate here but includes:

- the world's first printed thin-film solar cell in a commercial panel
product;

- the world's first thin-film solar cell with a low-cost back-contact
capability;

- the world's lowest-cost solar panel – which we believe will make us
the first solar manufacturer capable of profitably selling solar
panels at as little as $.99/Watt;

- the world's highest-current thin-film solar panel – delivering five
times the current of any other thin-film panel on the market today and
thus simplifying system deployment;

- an intensely systems-optimized product with the lowest
balance-of-system cost of any thin-film panel – due to innovations in
design we have included.

Today we are announcing that we have begun shipping panels for
freefield deployment in Eastern Germany and that the first Megawatt of
our panels will go into a power plant installation there.

As far as the first three of our commercial panels are concerned:

Panel #1 will remain at Nanosolar for exhibit.

Panel #2 can be purchased by you in an auction on eBay starting today.

Panel #3 has been donated to the Tech Museum in San Jose.

[These are obviously not the first three we ever produced – we have
produced loads for testing – but these are the first three of what we
consider our commercial panels.]

Related Info: Nanosolar Shipping for Megawatt Municipal Power Plant


Nanosolar Shipping for Megawatt Municipal Power Plant
Plant Project Won in Partnership with Beck Energy; Introducing the
Nanosolar Utility Panel™
SAN JOSE, California – December 18th, 2007 - Nanosolar Inc., a global
leader in solar power innovation, and Beck Energy, a leading
integrator of large-scale solar power systems, today announced that
they have won a highly competitive public selection process for a
solar power plant located on a former landfill owned by one of the
largest waste management companies in Eastern Germany.

The project will employ the Nanosolar Utility Panel™ in combination
with systems technology and services from Beck Energy. The initial
size of the plant is 1MW, an amount sufficient to power approximately
400 homes. The Nanosolar Utility Panel™ is Nanosolar's first product
as part of its award-winning PowerSheet™ product line – recently named
the Top Innovation of the Year 2007 by Popular Science Magazine – and
the company's solution for building solar power plants on free fields
at the outskirts of towns and cities.

"This is the first time that a solar electricity cell and panel has
been designed entirely and specifically for utility-scale power
generation," said Martin Roscheisen, CEO of Nanosolar. "It will set
the standard for green power generation at utility scale."



"The unique design and system economics of the Nanosolar Utility
Panel™ are instrumental in enabling us to drive the cost efficiency of
solar electricity systems," said Bernhard Beck, CEO of Beck Energy
GmbH. "Every town and city should have its own solar farm in the future."

Solar-electric power plants have advantages over concentrating
solar-thermal plants as well as coal-fired and other conventional
plants in that they can be deployed in a much broader range of
possible field locations, a much broader range of possible sizes, and
with much shorter project planning and implementation cycles. They now
can be very economical as well, giving municipal power producers and
utilities a new option for generating and delivering cost-efficient
green power.



Named Innovation of the Year

Popular Science magazine — which many of us read when we were little —
just came out with its annual innovation awards.

Our solar electricity technology was named the top Innovation of the
Year 2007. Ranked #1 overall, we even came out ahead of the Apple
iPhone and many other great technologies (and companies with much
larger marketing budgets too in particular).

It's great to see our hard work — and greentech in general —
recognized so enthusiastically! Now we have no choice but to actually
make sure that there's going to be a solar panel on every building in
the future.
See also: Popular Science press release, website