solar energy predecessor solon ag f r solartechnik founded berlin germany 27 november 1997 27 november 1997 key people thomas krupke ceo dr. lars podlowski cto dr. gero wiese coo anke hunziger chro simone pr fer cfo products solar panels solon mover revenue 2008 815 1 million 2007 503.1 million net income 2008 30 9 million 2007 22 2 million number of employees 943 2008 website www.solon.com solon se isin de0007471195 was a german solar energy company with headquarters in berlin . solon se produced photovoltaic modules at its production sites in greifswald germany solon nord gmbh steinach in tirol austria solon hilber technologie gmbh carmignano di brenta italy solon s.p.a. formerly known as s.e. project s.r.l. tucson usa solon corporation and berlin germany solon photovoltaik gmbh . solon also offered turn key solar power plants projected by solon inverstments freiburg germany and inverters developed and produced by solon inverters ag uznach switzerland formerly known as asp ag . in 2008 solon had a production capacity for photovoltaic modules of 450 mwp 2007 210 mwp ; 2006 130 mwp and with a production of 176 mwp 2007 118 mwp ; 2006 84 mwp solon maintained to be one of the biggest module producer in germany and europe . solon employed around 943 employees at the end of 2008 and achieved a turn over of 815 1 million and a net profit of 30 9 million 2007 503 1 million und 22 2 million ; 2006 346 4 million und 14 4 million . contents 1 history 2 activities in the united states 3 notes and references 4 external links history edit solon was founded on the 27th of november 1996 by saleh el khatib birgit flore johannes grosse boymann paul grunow stefan krauter alexander voigt wuseltronik gbr reiner lemoine stefan f tterer peter fischer martin sauter j rgen hiller . it went public in 1998 as the first solar energy company in germany . 1 2 it was listed in the tecdax isin de0007471195 between 20 march 2006 and 21 september 2009 and since 2007 it was an kodax constituent . on 2 december 2008 the solon aktiengesellschaft ag became a societas europaea se . 3 on 1 september 2006 the erlasee solar park was dedicated with 12 mw the currently largest tracking photovoltaic solar park . it was constructed by solon . 4 on 13 december 2011 solon filed for bankruptcy . 5 in 2011 the leftovers were overtaken in 2012 by the indian microsol and in 2014 the company was moved to uae . activities in the united states edit solon corporation a fully owned subsidiary of solon se for the north american market has been producing solar panels at its plant in tucson arizona since october 2007 . initially the panels were for its own project to supply electricity to pima county and for export back to europe . 6 7 in december 2008 the world s largest cigs thin film solar array went live in tucson . solon corporation produced and installed the photovoltaic modules and designed the array . 8 since an agreement with american solar electric in january 2009 the company started to expand to the residential market in arizona . 6 notes and references edit sunpower and solon announce five year 300 million supply contract for multi megawatt electricity generation systems . sunpower . 2005 04 18 . retrieved 2009 03 02 . solon ein b rse methusalem mit wachstums charme in german . wirtschaftsblatt . 2006 06 03 . retrieved 2009 03 02 . solon ag becomes a european company se . solon se . 2008 12 08 . retrieved 2009 02 28 . sunpower celebrates the dedication of solon s gut erlasee solar park . sunpower . 2006 09 01 . retrieved 2009 02 28 . bergin tom ; young sarah 2011 12 21 . bp turns out lights at solar business . reuters . retrieved 2011 12 21 . a b east valley rooftops can now go arizona for solar . east valley tribune . 2009 01 01 . archived from the original on january 11 2009 . retrieved 2009 02 28 . solon locations usa . solon se . retrieved 2009 02 28 . world s largest cigs thin film solar array goes live in tucson arizona . fox business network . 2008 12 02 . retrieved 2009 02 28 . dead link external links edit company homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title solon se & oldid 738997824 categories solar energy companies of germanymanufacturing companies based in berlinphotovoltaics manufacturerssocietates europaeaehidden categories cs1 german language sources de all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisnederlands suomi edit links this page was last modified on 12 september 2016 at 05 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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