Solar Cells Info

Source: Carmanah Power group / press release /march 28, 2007
Carmanah’s R829 Solar Dual LED Flashers installed at Cathedral Grove, in British Columbia, Canada. Improve Pedestrian Safety

Carmanah’s R829 solar-powered dual LED flashing beacons have functioned successfully through the winter in the Cathedral Grove area of MacMillan Provincial Park on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. With significant tree coverage, the continued functioning of Carmanah’s solar beacons attests to the reliability of the R829 to operate in low levels of solar illumination.  The dual LED flashers were installed in the summer of 2006, when considerable traffic caused existing roadside parking to become increasingly congested and dangerous. When plans to build a large parking lot were scuttled, BC Parks elected to install flashing pedestrian lights, overhead lighting and additional signage to improve safety by alerting motorists of the increased congestion and pedestrian traffic.
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source: Carmanah Power Systems Group /press release / March 27, 2007
http://www.carmanah.com/content/investors/showsalesupdate.aspx?id=070326

Carmanah’s Power Systems Group has received an order for an initial 39 units of its stand-alone, fully-integrated MAPPS solar power systems to be installed at the US Army Base, Camp Arifjan, in Kuwait. These systems will be used by a defense contractor to power radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers to track inventory at the base. In addition to this order, Carmanah has negotiated an ongoing supply contract for future MAPPS solar power systems, as required.
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Source:Chippewa.com /March 28, 2007
A service of the Associated Press(AP)
http://www.chippewa.com/articles/2007/03/28/ap/hitech/d8o59t880.txt

LISBON, Portugal – A project slated to become the world’s largest-producing solar power plant was inaugurated Wednesday in Portugal, though construction actually began last summer.  The 11-megawatt 61 million euro ($78.5 million) plant, a joint project of U.S. and Portuguese energy companies, spreads across a 150-acre hillside in Serpa, 124 miles southeast of Lisbon.
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Source: The Hindu /March 23, 2007
http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/23/stories/2007032304480400.htm

# Cell-manufacturing capacity has increased to 52 MW a year
# 128-MW capacity unit to be set up in this financial year

Bangalore: With the inauguration of a 36-MW solar photovoltaic production line, the cell manufacturing capacity of Tata BP Solar has increased to 52 MW a year.  Speaking to presspersons after the inauguration here on Wednesday, K. Subramanya, chief executive officer, Tata BP Solar, said the inauguration of the production line was a step towards realising the designed potential of setting up a 300-MW plant. “We plan to add a cell-manufacturing unit of 128-MW capacity in this financial year,” he said.
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source:
http://www.enf.cn/news/070319/1632.html
http://www.enf.cn/magazine/issue9/brand.html

SunPower make the best solar panels in the world, Kaco make the best inverters in the world and Direct Power and Water make the best mounting systems in the world.  These are findings from new research conducted by ENF among directors of photovoltaic installation companies in 45 different countries.

The directors were asked to name which brands of photovoltaic components they have purchased in the last 12 months, and rate the products for their quality and value for money.  An average of these two scores has been used to find the companies whose customers thought most highly of their products.
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By: thinkSPAIN /March 22, 2007
Source:
http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/12834

It occupies a plot the size of seventy football pitches and can supply all the energy needs of 12,000 households all year round. The world’s largest solar power farm was inaugurated yesterday in Beneixama (Alicante).  When fully operational (40,000 panels are already in use), its 100,000 8Mw solar panels will be capable of generating 30 million kilowatts an hour.
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Sarriguren, Navarra, Spain / 22 March 2007
source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=47844

ACCIONA Solar inaugurated the Monte Alto solar garden at Milagro (Navarre), the seventh developed by ACCIONA Solar en Navarre and the ninth in Spain.  Overall, the company’s installed capacity is 23 megawatts (MW), through the approximately 3,000 automated solar monitoring structures, and represents a total investment of 177 million Euros [US$236 million] shared among more than 2,000 owners.
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By Diana Uy / 24 March 2007
Source:Manila Standard Today
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=goodLife2_mar24_2007

While city folk bask in the glow of electric-powered light day in and out, our brothers in remote areas of Mindanao do not even own a single light bulb to their name.  Such is the case of 60 percent of the approximately 2,500 unelectrified barangays in the country, which consist of an average of 200 to 300 household-members each barangay.

“Most of these unelectrified areas are off-grid [or they are not reachable by power lines] and most of them are in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao,” says Theresa Cruz Capellan, chief of party of Alliance for Mindanao Off-Grid Renewable Energy or Amore, a rural electrification program of the US Agency for International Development, Philippine Department of Energy, Mirant Philippines Foundation, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and Winrock International.
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New Jersey effort is nearing completion of first phase.

By Paola Loriggio /The Newark Star-Ledger
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. /March 25, 2007
source: The Stateman
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/statesmanhomes/03/25/25turner.html

The first phase of the country’s largest corporate solar-electric system is nearing completion in New Jersey, and it’s got some star power behind it.  Media mogul Ted Turner’s new venture, the renewable energy company DT Solar, is behind the project. Turner visited the Hall’s Warehouse Corp. facility last week to tout the 4,000 solar panels that have been installed on the roof. When complete, the project will have 8,000 solar panels to power two refrigerated warehouses. The company provides refrigerated and dry storage and shipping for commercial tenants.
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Connecticut Clean Energy Fund Grant Approved to Support 171-kw Solar PV Installation

source: Connecticut Innovations /press release
http://www.ctinnovations.com/news/290.php

The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) today announced that the Clean Energy Investment Committee has approved a grant of $777,000 to the R.C. Bigelow Company, also known as the Bigelow Tea Company, to defray approximately 55% of the cost of installing a 171-kilowatt solar photovoltaic (PV) system at the company’s Fairfield, Connecticut headquarters facility. The solar PV system will be mounted on the rooftops of four different building levels and will supply approximately 195,600 kilowatt hours annually, or 6.7% of the total electrical needs of the headquarters complex.
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