DGAP-News: SolarWorld AG Receives German Sustainability Award

SolarWorld AG / Miscellaneous

18.11.2008 

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Solar Power Technology Group Successful in Two Categories

SolarWorld AG will receive the German sustainability award. With the prize
for 'Germany’s Most Sustainable Production' and the nomination as
'Germany’s Most Sustainable Brand' the solar power technology group will be
the only company to receive an award in two categories simultaneously. The
award will be under the patronage of the President of the Federal Republic
of Germany, Horst Köhler, and will be officially presented on the German
Sustainability Day on 5 December 2008. In awarding the prize the jury paid
tribute to SolarWorld AG’s consistent focus on sustainable products,
sustainable production and sustainable commitment.

Frank H. Asbeck, Chairman and CEO of SolarWorld AG: 'Sustainability is the
very core of our business model. With our products we enable people
worldwide to lastingly generate clean power'. The concept of sustainability
is continued in the company’s approach to entrepreneurial action. 'Quite
deliberately we rely on integrated production and concentrate on high-tech
locations with the highest environmental and social standards', says
Asbeck. Add to this the company’s commitment to sustainability, for example
in supporting development aid projects in Africa that are equipped with
solar power technology thus making reliable energy supply possible for the
first time even in remote regions.

The sustainability prize is awarded to companies and brands that combine
economic success with social responsibility and environmental protection in
an exemplary fashion. All in all, 350 companies participated in the
competition – among them half the DAX 30 companies. The organizers include
the Council for Sustainable Development, the Potsdam Institute for Climate
Assessment Research and the Wuppertal Institute. The jury was made up of 15
experts, among them the former Director of the UN Environmental Program and
Federal Minister of the Environment, Prof. Klaus Töpfer, the Head of the
Potsdam Institute, Prof. H. J. Schellnhuber, and the Head of the Council
for Sustainable Development, Dr. Volker Hauff. For further information
please go to www.deutscher-nachhaltigkeitspreis.de


About SolarWorld AG: The SolarWorld AG group of companies (ISIN:
DE0005108401) is a world leader in high quality solar power technology. The
company is involved at all levels of the solar value chain and combines all
activities of the industry from silicon as the raw material to turn-key
solar power system. SolarWorld AG is represented in all international solar
growth markets. The group is exclusively dedicated to its core business of
photovoltaic power generation, operating production facilities in Germany
and the USA. They in turn supply the SolarWorld AG sales offices in
Germany, Spain, USA, South Africa and Singapore. In South Korea SolarWorld
AG is currently building up a solar module production facility in order to
be able to serve the growing demand in Asia on the spot in the future. A
central element of the business in addition to the sale of turn-key solar
systems and solar modules to retailers is the distribution of solar silicon
wafers to the international solar cell industry. Apart from grid-coupled
(on-grid) products the SolarWorld Group also sells off-grid solar power
solutions that make an important contribution to the sustainable economic
development of threshold and developing countries. Under the roof
Solar2World the group has pooled its ethical commitment to solar power
especially in developing countries.
SolarWorld AG employs 2,254 people worldwide. At the stock market the
company is listed among others in the technology index TecDAX, in the
ÖkoDAX, in the Dow Jones STOXX 600, in the international MSCI index as well
as in the sustainability indices DAXglobal Alternative Energy and NAI.


Contact:
SolarWorld AG Investor Relations / Marketing Communications,
Tel.-No.: +49 228 55920 -470; Fax-No.: +49 228 55920-9470,
E-mail: placement@solarworld.de   
Internet: www.solarworld.de



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Language:     English
Issuer:       SolarWorld AG
              Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 12-14
              53113 Bonn
              Deutschland
Phone:        +49 (0)228 - 559 20 470
Fax:          +49 (0)228 - 559 20 99
E-mail:       placement@solarworld.de
Internet:     www.solarworld.de
ISIN:         DE0005108401
WKN:          510840
Indices:      TecDAX
Listed:       Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard), Düsseldorf;
              Freiverkehr in Berlin, München, Hamburg, Stuttgart;
              Terminbörse EUREX
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