Solar Cells Info

Houston, Texas, June 13, 2007
Source: Associated Press /IndyStar
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070613/NATIONWORLD/706130454/

The international space station’s newest power source, a set of solar wings, made its debut Tuesday.  The solar array is part of a 17.5-ton segment that was connected to the orbiting outpost during a spacewalk Monday.
The solar wings were deployed one at a time, first halfway unfurled and allowed to warm in the sun about 30 minutes. This prevented the solar panels from sticking together.

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Jun 12 2007
Source: Environmental Leader
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/06/12/

General Electric has received a Connecticut Clean Energy Fund grant of up to $722,000 to help defray a portion of the total project cost of installing a 168-kilowatt DC solar photovoltaic system at its headquarters facility in Fairfield, Connecticut.
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Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 15, 2007
Source. Earth Times /UPI
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/73175.html

Sri Lanka has received a new World Band credit to power thousands of rural homes and tap into private sector renewable energy.  Officials estimate Sri Lanka will be able to light up 60,000 rural homes and also connect new private-sector renewable energy to the urban power grid with a new World Bank credit, Lanka Business Online reported.
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Solaicx is the second solar company to locate in the state this year
Portland, Ore. June 12, 2007
Source: Solaicx News reports/Oregon Economic Development Association
http://www.solaicx.com/pages/news.htm

Solaicx, a leading manufacturer of mono-crystalline silicon ingots and wafers used in the solar energy industry, announced today that it will be locating its first high-volume manufacturing facility in Portland. For the past five years the company has developed manufacturing technologies that produce low-cost, high-efficiency silicon wafers for the photovoltaic (PV) industry that have been produced at the company’s pilot manufacturing facility in Santa Clara, Calif.
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By Tom Lawrence, Black Hills Pioneer
Deadwood, SD, June 11, 2007
Source: Black Hills Pioneer
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18458095

In the 1950s, President Dwight Eisenhower launched the interstate highway system and it still benefits America a half-century later.  “Some president sometime is going to build the national grid” to transport energy from one end of the nation to the other, predicted John O’Donnell, president of Ausra, Inc., a solar electric power park company. O’Donnell gave the initial keynote address during the opening day of the Western Governors’ Association annual meeting in Deadwood Sunday.
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The new class of materials enabling the world’s best solar cell has a bright future.

By Peter Fairley, June 15, 2007
Source: MIT Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18910/

A solar cell more than twice as efficient as typical rooftop solar panels has been developed by Spectrolab, a Boeing subsidiary based in Sylmar, CA. It makes use of a highly customizable and virtually unexplored class of materials that could lead to further jumps in efficiency over the next decade, making solar power less expensive than grid electricity in much of the country.

The cell, which employs new “metamorphic” materials, is designed for photovoltaic systems that use lenses and mirrors to concentrate the sun’s rays onto small, high-efficiency solar cells, thereby requiring far less semiconductor material than conventional solar panels.

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Business Wire, 11 June 1007

Source: Austin News
http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=185866&SecID=2

A warehouse renovation project set for the historic Pearl Brewery site will also be a “learning laboratory” for “green” building and energy efficiency, featuring the largest solar energy installation in the state, announced CPS Energy and Silver Ventures, which is renovating the historic brewery in an adaptive re-use project.
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Los Gatos, Calif., June 11, 2007
Source: Akeena Solar, press release
http://www.akeena.net/cm/Investor%20Relations/Home.html

Fast-growing Akeena Solar (OTCBB:AKNS) is generating the equivalent of power for 200 households with its just-completed project at the Air National Guard Armory in Fresno, CA.  Akeena, a publicly held company that already is one of the largest installers of residential solar and small commercial systems in the country, says that the $2.2 million contract is a meaningful contribution to Akeena’s revenues last quarter and this quarter.
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Business Standard Reporter / Mumbai June 7, 2007
http://www.business-standard.com/

A leader in the optical storage media space, Moser Baer India, today said that its wholly-owned subisidiary, Moser Baer Photo Voltaic (MBPV), has commenced commercial shipment of its solar photovoltaic (PV) cells.  MBPV further announced it has firm customer orders and MoUs exceeding $100 million (around Rs 410 crore).  Additionally, the state of the art fully integrated in-line cell manufacturing facility has started producing photovoltaic cells at expected level of output with cell efficiency levels up to 15.5%.
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Source: Xinhua/People’s Daily Online / 7 June 2007
http://english.people.com.cn/200706/07/eng20070607_381987.html

A Chinese company says it has developed a mobile phone that uses solar energy to recharge itself and can provide 40 minutes of talk-time after sitting in the sun for an hour.  Hi-Tech Wealth, a well-known telecommunication products supplier in China, claims its mobile phone is the world’s first to use solar power to recharge its battery. The company says 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. (more…)