MARKETS: Samsung Aims for 22% of Solar.

Plans are underway at Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (12th Floor, Dae-kyung Bldg., 120, Taepyung-ro 2-ka, Seoul, Korea; Tel: 02-727-3100) to secure a 22% share of the global solar power generation market by 2010. Company literature places that market at $2 billion. With an anticipated average growth rate of 33%, the market could reach as high as $40 billion in 2015.

The company plans to secure a beachhead in the global market with the development of its 20.1% efficient large area silicon solar battery. The cell has already received international certification from Germany's Fraunhofer Institut Solare Energiesysteme. Samsung reports it the second entity in the world, after …