Solar Cells Info

Andrew McCathie, DPA
Freiberg, Germany, June 14, 2007
Source: Eux.TV
http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=9854

Lying in the middle of what was once communist East Germany and shrouded for months under a leaden grey wintry sky, the small 800-year-old town of Freiberg would appear to be an unlikely new centre for the burgeoning global solar energy industry.  But more than 17 years after a popular uprising swept away the Soviet-backed East German state, a network of wind energy farms and new alternative energy companies have been springing up around Freiberg.
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Dinker Vashisht
Dharamshala, June 17, 2007
Source: Indian Express
http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/33815.html

Even familiarity with Dharamshala’s cosmopolitan culture and diverse international population may not prepare one for a Japanese ‘babaji’, equipped with a laptop, running the affairs of an old, revered Hindu temple, which has a Wi-Fi connection. When he is done with his duties as the head priest, the ‘Japani Babaji’, as he is affectionately known, teaches his followers computers. The leitmotif of his preaching is that salvation lies in using technology to gain knowledge and improve one’s life.
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Tata BP Solar to supply solar power systems, bags the All India Award for Engineering Excellence

Source: Equitybulls.com  June 10, 2007
http://www.equitybulls.com/admin/news2006/news_det.asp?id=13462

Tata BP Solar has won a letter of intent worth Rs113 million from PT Sempec Indonesia, a subsidiary of Punj Lloyd, India, for supply of solar power systems to four offshore platforms. The systems would power RTU / gas detection equipments and navigational aid systems for the B-134A, HI, HJ and HSC platforms. PT Sempec has been entrusted by ONGC for re-development of Heera Oil Well head platforms.
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Hong Kong, June 13, 2007 (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSTP18925220070613

E-Ton Solar Tech Co. (3452.TWO: Quote, Profile, Research), one of Taiwan’s top solar cell makers, on Wednesday said it will pay US$153.7 million in cash and stock for U.S. solar power parts maker Adema Technologies.  The move is part of a trend that has seen solar panel makers form tie-ups with materials providers to ensure supply as silicon prices climb amid rising demand for alternate energy sources.
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by Tylene, June 5, 2007
Source: Inhabitat.com
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/06/05/rizhao-the-sunshine-city/

Rizhao means “sunshine” in Chinese, which is quite an appropriate moniker… Since 2001, Rizhao City (Shandong Province, China) officials have been educating the public and initiating new building regulations to promote the use of solar panels in their city. Traffic lights, street lamps and over 60,000 greenhouses are solar powered. Today, the city of nearly three million has over a half-million square meters of solar water heating panels—99% of households in the central districts use solar water heaters and more than 30% do so in the outlying villages.
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6 June 2007
Source: GoKunming.com
http://gokunming.com/en/blog/item.php?blog_id=295

Kunming has some of the sunniest skies found in any Chinese city. Many visitors to the Spring City wonder why with so many beautiful days each year there aren’t more rooftop gardens, cafes or restaurants. One major reason for this is the overwhelming number of Kunming rooftops that are covered with solar water heaters.
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June 8, 2007
Source: Techshout.com
http://www.techshout.com/mobile-phones/2007/08/

Solar-powered Mobile Phone Hi-Tech Wealth, a well known telecommunication products supplier in China has developed a mobile phone that utilizes solar energy to recharge itself. The company also claims that it is the world’s first to use solar power to recharge a phone battery.  According to the company, a scale-like solar panel on the top side of the clamshell-designed phone can also be recharged by light from other sources including candles.
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An hour of sunshine gives enough juice for a 40-minute call
J. Mark Lytle, 12 Jun 2007
Source: Tech.co.uk
http://www.tech.co.uk/gadgets/phones/mobile-phones/news/first-solar-powered-mobile-phone-hits-china?articleid=1046418232

Readers living in the UK might not be too concerned about yet another solar-powered gadget, but for those of us in the Far East, the latest mobile phone to go on sale in China has a distinct appeal.  The £250 S116 handset from Chinese firm Hi-Tech Wealth and first seen as a prototype at CeBIT this year is a mostly average phone except for its claim to being the world’s first solar-powered mobile. Moreover, the company’s claims make it sound like they’ve managed to get some impressive mileage out of those little solar panels.
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by Bosire Nyairo
Source: Business Daily Africa
http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1441&Itemid=4928

Dealers in solar panels have urged Kenya’s standards body to intensify quality assurance measures against imports and false labelling of poor-performing panels.  The Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) has the role of inspecting solar power items for standards and power ratings.  But some solar panel importers said Kebs’ regulatory mechanisms were failing to catch a glut of panels in the local market that do not meet Kenyan market and that do not match their advertised level of performance.
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Merrimack, NH (USA) — March 29, 2007
Source: GT Solar, Press release
http://www.gtsolar.com/news/shownews.php?id=110

GT Solar Incorporated, a global leader in photovoltaic technologies and equipment, announced today it has signed a $49 million contract to sell polysilicon reactors to the Russian company, Nitol Group. GT Solar’s reactors and silicon tetrachloride converters will be installed at Nitol’s production facility in Irkutsk, Siberia.
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