SolarWorld Brings World Cup to Villages That Have No Electricity

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09.06.2010 08:19

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Podolski, Klopp, Hagman and many other celebrities support the Sun-TV
project

When the World Cup kicks off in Johannesburg on Friday at 4 pm more than
2,000 people in remote villages who have so far not had any access to
electricity and the media will be able to cheer on their team. The German
solar technology group SolarWorld has installed 35 solar-operated
television viewing points in South Africa and Namibia. The Sun-TV project
is designed to enable football fans in South Africa to participate in this
mega-event that is taking place in their own country. At the same time
SolarWorld is providing the infrastructure to use media for education or
for example for information about HIV in the future.

'Our Sun-TV viewing points show what you can do with solar technology',
says Frank H. Asbeck, Chairman and CEO of SolarWorld AG. 'For many people
in Africa it is the first real opportunity to participate. For us in the
industrialized world clean solar energy from your own roof will be a
natural part of our overall energy supply in the future.'

The Sun-TV project is supported by celebrities like football coach Jürgen
Klopp, the international footballer Lukas Podolski, rock star Peter Maffay
and the US actor Larry Hagman. Hagman, known as the oil baron in the
television show 'Dallas' says: 'The sun is the clean oil of the future. It
does not make any sense to further increase the oil and diesel dependence
of people in Africa. Solar energy makes us independent and opens up an
economic perspective.'

The solar-operated TV viewing points are placed in village squares or are
integrated into facilities like community centers or churches. High
efficiency modules made by SolarWorld power the Sun-TV viewing points which
in addition to a television set are equipped with a DVD player and can
receive sports, children's and educational programs via a satellite
antenna.

For more information on the SolarWorld Sun-TV project please go to
www.solarworld.de/suntv


About SolarWorld AG: The SolarWorld AG Group (ISIN: DE0005108401) is a
worldwide leader in offering brand-name, high quality, crystalline
solar-power technology. Its strength is its fully integrated solar
production. From silicon as the raw material through wafers, cells and
modules all the way to turn-key solar systems, including recycling, the
group combines all stages of the solar value chain. The central business
activity is selling quality modules into the installation and distribution
trades and crystalline wafers to the international solar cell industry.
Group headquarters are located in Bonn, Germany. Production sites are to be
found in Germany, the United States and South Korea. The group's largest
production facilities operate in Freiberg, Germany and Hillsboro in the
U.S. State of Oregon. Sustainability is the basis of the group strategy.
Under the name Solar2World, the group supports care projects using off-grid
solar-power solutions in emerging economies and developing countries,
exemplifying sustainable economic development. Worldwide, SolarWorld
employs more than 2,700 people. SolarWorld AG has been quoted on the stock
exchange since 1999 and today is listed on, among others, the TecDAX,
ÖkoDAX, Dow Jones STOXX 600 as well as in the sustainability indices
DAXglobal Alternative Energy and NAI.


Investor Relations: Tel.-No.: 0228/55920-470; Fax-No.: 0228/55920-9470, 
E-Mail: placement@solarworld.de 
Presse: Tel.-No.: 0228/55920-400, E-Mail: press@solarworld.de 

Internet: www.solarworld.de




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Company:      SolarWorld AG
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