Solar Cells Info

Rome,  May 24, 2009
Source: Reuters India
http://in.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idINLO46892420090524

More than 38,000 photovoltaic (PV) installations that turn sunlight into power are currently on stream in Italy with a total capacity of 485 megawatt, the state-run power management agency GSE said on Sunday. PV installations mushroomed in Italy from about 22 MW in early 2007 after the government launched a new incentive plan, considered by analysts to be among the most generous in Europe. (more…)

by Patrick O’Grady, May 11, 2009
Source: Phoenix Business Journal
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/05/11/daily6.html

REC, based in San Luis Obispo, Calif., opened its Phoenix office several weeks ago touting more affordable prices for residential and smaller commercial users via lease options. It is the latest addition to a market that already includes California-based SolarCity, which hit town with a buy-in from Tempe-based First Solar Inc., and Scottsdale’s American Solar Electric, which teamed with SunRun, a California solar financing company, to offer lower cost entry points. (more…)

JUNO BEACH, Fla., Mar 31, 2009
Source: http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/energy/
fpl-equip-florida-schools-generation-solar-education-stations-teach-students/

Florida Power & Light Company will install cutting-edge solar power arrays at six schools in its service territory to help teach future generations about the benefits of renewable energy. Each school receiving a ‘Next Generation Solar Education Station’ will be able to generate emissions-free electricity and provide students with a hands-on tool to learn how solar power works. (more…)

Projects to be located at Brookhaven National Laboratory would be largest installation in New York State
Source: BP Solar, press release 11 March 2009
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9019567&contentId=7051762

BP Solar confirmed today that the company has been selected to enter into negotiations with the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) to provide nearly 37 megawatts (MW) of photovoltaic solar power on the grounds of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).  BP Solar’s proposal includes two large-scale commercial solar photovoltaic projects at the BNL site located in Upton, New York. Each project would be sized at just over 18 MW, making BNL home to the largest solar photovoltaic site in the State of New York. (more…)

Fremont, CA, March 31, 2009
Source: Solyndra Inc. press release
http://www.solyndra.com/News/Press-Release-033109

Solyndra Inc., a manufacturer of proprietary photovoltaic (PV) systems designed to optimize solar electricity production on commercial rooftops, announced the completion and full operation of a 132 kWp system by SPG Solar, Inc., on the rooftop of Cinema West’s Livermore Cinemas in Livermore, CA. This project is one of many major commercial installations that have been completed or are underway with Solyndra PV systems in the US and Europe.    (more…)

In Tough Economy, Homeboy Industries Trains Ex-Cons for Brighter Prospects
By MIRIAM JORDAN, Los Angeles, Feb. 14, 2009
Source: Wall Street Journal Online
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB123457326090086555.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

When Albert Ortega was released from prison four months ago, he was determined to turn his life around. So he went green.  Mr. Ortega sports tattoos of an Aztec warrior on his back, a dragon on his chest and the name of his former gang, the East Side Wilmas, rings his biceps. Drug trafficking kept him locked up for most of the past seven years, he says. But after serving his last term, for 18 months, he heard about a solar-panel installation course.  “I wanted a new way of life,” says the tall, brawny 34-year-old. “Solar puts me on the cutting edge.” (more…)

Toronto, Jan. 23, 2009
Canadian Solar Inc, press release
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=196781&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1247716

Canadian Solar Inc. (“the Company”, “CSI” or “we”) (Nasdaq: CSIQ) today announced that it has donated 5,000 Euros to the Klimaschutz- und Solarforderverein am Gymnasium School in Neutraubling, Germany. The donation will be used to partially finance a 10 kWp rooftop solar project using our CS6A-150 modules. Other donors include students, teachers and alumni, as well as private individuals. The school will in turn use the net proceeds from the project to help fund projects in developing nations. (more…)

One-acre, 1,500 solar panel array at Pioneer Hi-Bred Waimea Research Center in Kauai, Hawaii is DuPont’s largest solar installation to date
Marlboro, Ma, February 04, 2009
Source: Evergreen Solar Inc, press release
http://www.evergreensolar.com/app/en/company/press/pressreleases/item/705

Evergreen Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESLR), a manufacturer of STRING RIBBON™ solar power products with its proprietary, low-cost silicon wafer manufacturing technology, announced today that a new 250 kilowatt solar energy power plant using its solar panels is now operational at DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred Waimea Research Center in Kauai, Hawaii. The solar installation is DuPont’s largest and will supply 85 percent of the overall energy for the Research Center. (more…)

Source: The Armidale, Jan 21, 2009
http://armidale.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/sustainable-living-group-in-push-for-solar-rewards/1414837.aspx?storypage=0

THE LOCAL group Sustainable Living Armidale (SLA) has made a submission to the NSW Government, which is looking at how it might regulate and reward the production of solar power collected on house roofs.  SLA is responding to the call by the Government’s Task Force on the introduction of a feed-in tariff on renewable energy.  With a feed-in tariff, a household with solar panels and connected to the national electricity grid, will receive a guaranteed payment for the greenhouse gases saved by their production of energy. (more…)

by Josie Garthwaite, 21 Jan 2009
Source: Earth2Tech.com
http://earth2tech.com/2009/01/21/
intel-tests-out-sharp-pv-for-solar-powered-data-center/

Chip giant Intel Corp. unveiled a 10-kilowatt solar installation near its New Mexico manufacturing plant this weekend, launching its latest foray into clean energy for power-hungry data centers. While energy generated by the array’s 64 Sharp solar panels will feed into the local electricity grid and tractor-trailer-sized test racks of computers — rather than directly powering the roughly 5,000 servers at Intel’s facility — the company said it hopes solar can eventually boost the data center’s power supply during times of peak demand. (more…)