Solar Cells Info

26 May 2007 /Source:Catholic News
http://www.cathnews.com/news/705/160.php

The Vatican’s Paul VI Centre is to get a green makeover with the installation of a giant rooftop garden of solar panels that will power all of the building’s heating, cooling and lighting needs year-round.  Catholic News Service reports that the mastermind behind the environmentally friendly project, Pier Carlo Cuscianna, head of the Vatican’s department of technical services, says that the sun will provide all the building’s energy needs.
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Huntington Beach, California / 28 May 2007
Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=48692

Designed to augment the power supplied to each home from the grid, 89 single-family and estate homes in a new community north of Naples, Florida, will receive solar energy systems from Sharp.

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Huntington Beach, CA /April 29, 3007
Source: Sharp Solar Energy Solutions, press release
http://solar.sharpusa.com/solar/press_releases/0,2484,7-2,00.html

Sharp takes to the road to educate the public about the “What,” “Where,” and “Why” of solar power

Sharp’s Solar Energy Solutions Group, the U.S. solar arm of Sharp Corporation, the world leader in solar cell production, has launched a unique awareness campaign that will demystify solar electricity for consumers. Components of the campaign will appear in newspaper ads, internet search results, and web page banners – even a colorful traveling education trailer that will move from town to town throughout California. “Hello Sunshine” will be the tag line, and a lesson about solar electricity, not a sales pitch for Sharp products, will be the message.
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Electron Solar Energy Launches Multi-Lingual Website to Serve Growing International Customer Base
Miami, FL, May 15, 2007
Source: Businesswire.com
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070515005453&newsLang=en

Electron Solar Energy (Pink Sheets: ESRG), an international distributor of alternative energy systems, announced today that with a simple click from the Company’s home page, http://www.electronsolarenergy.com, its entire site can be translated from English to French. Over the next several weeks, Electron Solar Energy plans to add several of the world’s major languages to create a multi-lingual marketing and sales channel, with online order capacity.
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MIAMI, May 22, 2007
Source: Electron Solar Energy /press release
http://www.pinksheets.com/quote/news.jsp?url=fis_story.asp%3Ftextpath%3DCOMTEX%5Cbw%5C2007%5C05%5C22%5C93626531.html%26clientid%3D168%26provider%3DBUSINESS_WIRE&symbol=ESRG

Electron Solar Energy (OTC: ESRG), an international distributor of alternative energy systems, announced today that Tibo Company LLC, based in Dubai, will sell the Company’s solar energy systems through two branch offices and direct-to-consumer sales covering the entire United Arab Emirates (UAE). Tibo currently markets Electron’s line of batteries.
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Richard Macey, May 15, 2007
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/bright-sparks-find-more-zing-in-the-suns-glow/2007/05/14/1178995079845.html

It is believed that no more than 30,000 Australian homes – a small fraction of 1 per cent – are generating electricity from rooftop solar panels.  The problem is the cost. The University of NSW says home owners can spend up to $20,000 installing 10 square metres of panels – enough to generate about two kilowatts of energy – to power lights, a refrigerator and most small electrical appliances, but not the stove or the hot-water system.
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Washington, DC / 23 May 2007
Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=48624

The solar industry is poised for a rapid decline in costs that will make it a mainstream power option in the next few years, according to a new assessment by the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Prometheus Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Sandia invention to make parabolic trough solar collector systems more energy efficient – Simple design of new technology excites solar industry

Albuquerque, N.M., May 15, 2007
Source: Sandia National Lab /press release
http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/trough.html

A mirror alignment measurement device, invented by Rich Diver, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems, parabolic troughs, more affordable and energy efficient.  Diver’s new theoretical overlay photographic (TOP) technology is drawing interest from the solar industry because of its simplicity and the need to find solutions for global warming.
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Household solar systems have turned sunlight to electricity for some 100,000 rural Indians.

Ishani Mukherjee,  May 4, 2007
Source: Worldwatch.org
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5059
A solar photovoltaics (PV) pilot project in India has transformed the lives of approximately 100,000 people living in poverty-stricken rural regions by providing several hours of uninterrupted lighting every night. The goal of the $1.5 million project, led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), was to facilitate household financing for solar home systems. Its success has inspired satellite programs to improve energy access in Algeria, China, Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, and Mexico.
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Supported by the 2007 California Solar Initiative, the $7.5 Million, Eight-Acre Solar Energy Plant Will Alleviate Demand on Central Valley’s Municipal Power Grid During Summer Months

Lost Hills, CA, May 24, 2007
Source: Business Wire
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070524005027&newsLang=en

Paramount Farms, the world’s largest vertically integrated supplier of pistachios and almonds, today announced the opening of the Paramount Farms’ Solar Plant, a 1.1 mega-watt, $7.5 million solar energy plant in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Spanning eight acres, it is the largest single-site, privately-owned, operating solar plant in the U.S. and is expected to supply about 15 percent of the energy that the company’s nut processing facility uses each year.
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