Solar Cells Info

Posted by Elsa Wenzel, July 24, 2008
Source: GreenTech/CNet.com
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9998606-54.html

First Solar is teaming up with Sempra Generation to build in the Nevada desert what could become North America’s largest thin-film photovoltaic plant. The 10-megawatt project would be located 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas, next to Sempra’s natural gas plant in El Dorado. “As a result, the impact to the immediate environment is minimal and the project completion timeline will be shorter,” Mike Ahearn, CEO of First Solar, said in a statement. (more…)

Source: Trading Markets.com/ August 7, 2008
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1810520/

Kohl’s Department Stores (NYSE: KSS), a speciality department store, announced on Wednesday (6 August) that the company will expand its solar programme to the state of Oregon in the US.
The company plans to convert four of its nine stores in Oregon, which is reportedly the sixth state under the company’s solar power programme, to solar power. In addition to Oregon, Kohl’s has solar projects underway in California, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey and Wisconsin.

Kohl’s said that solar panel installation will begin in August at the Hillsboro store, the first Kohl’s location scheduled for solar power in Oregon. Also, plans are underway to convert three additional Oregon stores to solar power. On average, solar panels will provide about 25% of each store’s energy requirements.  When complete, the four Oregon installations are expected to collectively provide up to 900 kilowatts of power and are expected to produce up to 1 million kilowatt-hours of energy per year.

New Solution Answers the Call for Solar Power for Flat Roof Home and Commercial Buildings
SAN FRANCISCO, CA., July 2, 2008
Source: Akeena Solar press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=201840&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1171457

Akeena Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:AKNS), one of the United States’ leading designers and installers of solar power systems, today launched its Andalay Flat Roof Solar Power System. Homeowners and businesses now have a sleek, reliable and high-performing solar solution to answer the marketplace demand for flat roof solar power systems.  In urban areas like San Francisco, solar hasn’t been a real option for customers who live in buildings with flat rooftops. When we debuted our innovative Andalay technology eight months ago, it was the first radical change in solar panel design in three decades. Now we are taking that high performance, highly reliable technology one step further and enabling everyone to benefit from solar, regardless of where they live, said Gary Mull, vice president at Akeena Solar. Electricity prices are skyrocketing, and it’s time that every homeowner has access to clean, cheap, renewable energy from the sun. (more…)

Nation’s Leading Solar Installer Answers the Call in Rapidly Growing Market
LOS GATOS, CA., Aug. 5, 2008
Source: Akeena Solar Inc, press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=201840&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1183725

Responding to consumer demand and a booming residential solar market in New England, Akeena Solar (Nasdaq:AKNS), one of the United States’ leading solar installers, today announced it will expand its operations into Connecticut. The new location at 435 Boston Post Road, Milford, Conn., is the tenth office opened by Akeena Solar.  The company has already completed more than 40 installations in Connecticut, and due to the recent passage of new rebates in Connecticut and rising electricity costs, the demand for Akeena Solar’s award-winning beautifully designed, high performance Andalay panels is rapidly growing. (more…)

Teams With Pleasanton to Bring Popular Community-Based Solar Adoption Program
LOS GATOS, CA., Aug. 1, 2008
Source: Akeena Solar Inc press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=201840&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1182635

After a successful eight week community program, Akeena Solar (Nasdaq:AKNS), one of the United States’ leading solar installers and a preferred solar Installer for Livermore, today announced nearly 30 new homeowners have signed up to go solar. Together, the systems will generate 117 kW of solar electricity and will offset about 280,753 pounds of carbon dioxide a year — the equivalent of removing 23 cars off the road each year for 30 years. (more…)

Portland, Oregon, August 9, 2008
Source: Environmental News Service
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2008/2008-08-09-091.asp

Construction on the nation’s first solar demonstration project in a highway right of way has begun. At the Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 interchange in Tualatin, Oregon, 594 solar panels are being installed on a strip of land beside the highway roughly the length of two football fields.  Governor Ted Kulongoski, with transportation and utilities officials, broke ground on Thursday on the all-Oregon project.  “Before the year is over, this ground will hold the nationís first Solar Highway project, and Oregon will make history using the power of the sun to light this interchange,” said Governor Kulongoski. “More importantly, this project will represent a new era for energy in Oregon.” (more…)

Bedford, MA, June 4, 2008
Source: Spire Corp. press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=76421&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1162241

Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic cells and modules worldwide, today announced that it has received a contract from PLG Power Limited (PLG Group) to provide a state-of-the-art, turnkey photovoltaic module assembly line in India. PLG Power Limited is the Energy and Power division of PLG Group, a multifaceted organization involved in manufacturing and agro-based industries located in Mumbai and Kolkata, India. This will be the company’s first state-of-the-art solar energy facility and will complement its other business elements. (more…)

Bedford, MA, June 25, 2008
source: Spire Corp. press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=76421&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1169320

Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic cells and modules worldwide, today announced that it has delivered advanced solar module production equipment to ET Solar Group, located in the People’s Republic of China.  The module manufacturing equipment delivered to ET Solar includes Spire’s most current process technology. With this equipment, the line will be capable of annually producing up to 15 megawatts of solar modules. (more…)

Multiple Solar Cell Assembly and Module Testing Machines to be Provided for Production Ramp Up
Bedford, MA, August 6, 2008
Source: Spire Corp. press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=76421&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1184250

Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) modules worldwide, today announced that it has received a contract from ChengDu Tianwei New Energy PV Module Co. Ltd. (Tianwei) to provide multiple systems for stringing and tabbing solar cells and performing the critical end of line test and certification.  Spire will provide Tianwei with multiple Spi-Assembler(TM) 6000 systems to fully automate the soldering of individual solar cells into strings ready for busing. (more…)

Bedford, MA, July 30, 2008
Source: Spire corp., press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=76421&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1181252

Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) modules worldwide, today announced that it has entered into a multi-year, multi-system contract to provide key module line equipment to Trina Solar Limited (Trina Solar) of the People’s Republic of China. Spire will provide Trina Solar with multiple Spi-Sun Simulator(TM) 4600 Single Long Pulse (4600 SLP) systems. (more…)