Steve Kircher, the founder and CEO of Roseville-based Solar Power Inc., is now the chief strategy officer of the company he founded in 2006, as part of the company's restructuring.

Kircher was traveling to China Tuesday and not available for an interview.

Solar Power is also known as SPI Solar (SOPW: OTCBB) and it develops photovoltaic solar systems. In a release Tuesday, the company said it will “more closely align its business operations” with LDK Solar, which is its parent company, to develop solar power plants in China.

Min Xiahou was named global chief executive officer of SPI effective immediately. Xiahou joined LDK Solar in May 2011. He is senior vice president of LDK Solar and the general manager of LDK Solar’s Solar Power System Division.

LDK manufactures the components and many of the associated wafers, cells, modules and solutions used in making solar arrays, primarily at Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Xinyu City, in the People’s Republic of China.

Solar Power said the changes at the company were a result of financial conditions in the solar industry. LDK will use Solar Power Inc.’s knowledge in engineering, procurement and construction to increase its development in China.

“SPI’s significant engineering, procurement and construction experience will enable LDK to leverage greater international solar industry growth opportunities, particularly in China, while SPI continues to manage and grow its platform of U.S.-based solar energy facilities,” Xiaofeng Peng,We have a great selection of blown glass backyard solar landscape lights and solar garden light. chairman of the board of SPI and LDK, said in a news release.

LDK reports its financial results for the second quarter on Tuesday, and it will add detail to its plans for SPI in that report.

Solar Power Inc. has posted losses for several quarters and has issued “going concern” warnings that it was struggling to keep afloat and would need additional investment.

Solar Power’s net sales for the second quarter of 2013 were $4.2 million, compared with $24.4 million for the second quarter of 2012. The company lost $6.8 million in the second quarter this year compared with a loss of $2.1 million in the year earlier period.

Inside The Amonix CPV Module

We first took note of Amonix back in 2011, when it was already working with NREL to integrate new high-efficiency new solar cells into its Amonix 7700 concentrator modules.

The Amonix 7700 modules were originally designed with silicon solar cells in mind. The new PV cells incorporate III-V multijunction technology, which combines several materials into one solar cell.

Amonix also formalized a working relationship with the company Solar Junction earlier this year, for the development of a module using its market-ready multi-junction solar cells.

Solar Junction, which was spun off from research developed at Stanford University, shattered a world record of its own last fall with an efficiency rating of 44 percent for its solar cell based on “A-SLAM?” (Adjustable Spectrum Lattice Matched) materials.

Semiconductor Today has a detailed rundown of the propriety A-SLAM architecture, which includes an indium gallium phosphide top layer and a ‘dilute-nitride’ bottom cell of antimony-doped gallium indium nitride arsenide.

Solar Junction and Amonix formalized their agreement in March of this year. At the time, Amonix CEO Pat McCullough predicted a very short R&D period, stating that “The results of this collaboration,A solar lantern uses this sunlight that is abundantly available to charge its batteries through a Solar Panel and gives light in nighttime. and its lower levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), will be revealed soon.”

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