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Spire Corporationa?s CEO will be a Keynote Speaker at Photovoltaics Summit 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona

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^{Published in Science and Technology on Wednesday, January 19th 2011 at 13:50 GMT by Market Wire}  

BEDFORD, Mass.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--[ Spire Corporation ] (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing capital equipment and turn-key manufacturing lines to produce photovoltaic (PV) modules and providing Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) integration services for solar systems, announced today its Chairman and CEO, Roger G. Little, will present aLow Cost Utility Solar Farms Using Supersized Modulesa on Thursday, January 20, 2011 at the 6^th Annual Photovoltaics Summit 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona.

"Low Cost Utility Solar Farms Using Supersized Modules"

Mr. Littlea™s presentation will occur at 11:15 a.m. MST at the conferencea™s venue, the FireSky Resort. His Manufacturing Trends and Developmenta™s presentation will include information regarding:

• Utility solar farm market drivers;
• Minimizing solar farm capital costs;
• Crystalline silicon supersized module manufacturing;
• Solar farm systems cost reduction through the use of supersized modules; and
• Minimizing utility solar farm levelized cost of electricity by onsite deployment of supersized modules.

Spire will also have a booth in the exhibition area from January 19^th through 21^st,2011. This will coincide with Mr. Littlea™s presentation and provide materials for those interested in learning more about low cost utility solar farms, as well as all that [ SpireCorporation ] has to offer.

About Spire Corporation

[ Spire Corporation ] is a global solar company providing capital equipment and turn-key production lines to manufacture PV modules. To learn more about Spire Corporation, visit [ www.SpireCorp.com ] or email [ PR@SpireCorp.com ].

Certain matters described in this press release may be forward-looking statements subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risk of dependence on market growth, competition and dependence on government agencies and other third parties for funding contract research and services, as well as other factors described in the Company's Form10-K and other periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.