Solar Cells Info

April 16, 2007
Source: News.com.au
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21565270-17001,00.html

ALICE Springs has become the fourth Australian city to receive funding under a federal program promoting solar power.  The Northern Territory town joins Adelaide, Townsville and Sydney’s Blacktown under the Solar Cities program set up three years ago.  The Federal Government will provide Alice Springs with $12.3 million to install solar photovoltaic panels on 230 homes and business, 1000 solar hot water systems and roll out 400 smart meters.
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Jon Land, March 23, 2007
source: http://www.24dash.com/socialhousing/18346.htm

Solar panels are being installed at homes in Birmingham, UK  as part of a project to promote renewable energy.  Houses in Coplow Terrace are some of the first to receive works under the groundbreaking Summerfield Eco-Neighbourhood project.  About 250 homes will benefit from renewable energy as part of the project which is supported by Family Housing and Birmingham City Council.
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New Vision (Kampala), April 9, 2007
Juliet Waiswa, Kampala
source:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200704100203.html

AS the country prepares for the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in November, Winafrique Alternative Power Limited (WAP) in collaboration with Kampala City Council, have installed a new street lighting system along Entebbe Road.  The reliable system of lighting comes in handy when the hydro-electric power from UMEME is increasingly becoming unreliable, yet with high charges. The lighting system has come in as a pilot project, first along Entebbe Road, and if successful will spread to other roads, especially in Kampala.
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Beijing, China, 11 April 2007
source. Macauhub
http://www.macauhub.com.mo/en/news.php?ID=3144

Chinese company, Yingli Solar plans to increase its presence in the European market by making use of the profile of the solar plant at Moura in Portugal, the director of the company’s International Market Department, Pang Chou said in Beijing Tuesday.  Speaking to Portuguese news agency, Pang said that the Chinese solar cell and panel producer also planned to increase its presence on the Portuguese market.
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Salem, Utah April 8, 2007
source: IAUS /press release
http://www.iaus.com/news04092007.aspx

International Automated Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:IAUS) has announced  today that it has signed a supply agreement with Lucite International, a global leader in the design,  development and manufacture of acrylic-based products. Lucite International generates over  $1 billion in annual revenue. It is the world’s leading supplier of Methyl Methacrylate (MMA), and the only organization with production, R&D, sales and marketing facilities in all three
major geo-economic regions – the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Lucite International will facilitate high-volume production of IAUS’s new solar panels. IAUS’s  unique thin-film solar lenses can be manufactured at a fraction of the cost of today’s photovoltaic  solar panels. Breakthrough solar power technology developed by IAUS may become the first
solar power to compete with gas. Low-cost energy produced by IAUS’s new patented and  patent-pending solar technology can be used to generate electricity or produce clean fuels such as hydrogen and green methanol (gasoline replacements) at a competitive price.
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MotorHome /April 9, 2007
source: Motorhome Magazine
http://www.motorhomemagazine.com/output.cfm?ID=1227565

Coachmen Industries Inc. recently announced that it has entered into an agreement with Natural Source Energy Systems Inc. (NSESI) to research and develop recreational vehicles and systems-built structures that take advantage of environmentally friendly biodiesel fuel and solar power.

Coachmen Industries is providing NSESI with a Sportscoach Class A diesel pusher, a Coachmen Class C diesel motorhome and a Coachmen fifth-wheel trailer. NSESI will adapt the Coachmen units to incorporate new state-of-the-art, high-efficiency solar panels. Once the prototypes are ready, the companies will put the RVs through extensive testing using solar energy and biodiesel fuel across the country.
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Photovoltaic panels atop parking shelters for 700 vehicles will meet 20% of campus electricity base demand

FRESNO, Calif., March 22, 2007
source: Chevron Eenrgy Solutions /press release
http://www.chevronenergy.com/news_room/default.asp?pr=pr_20070323.asp

Construction has begun at California State University, Fresno on a solar panel-topped parking structure system being built by Chevron Energy Solutions, a Chevron (NYSE: CVX) subsidiary, that will be the largest of its kind at any university in the United States.  Photovoltaic panels installed atop 10 metal shelters that will shade more than 700 parking spaces from the San Joaquin Valley sun, will convert the sun’s energy into 1 megawatt of electricity. That’s about 20 percent of the university’s base demand and equivalent to the power needs of 1,000 homes, said Cynthia Teniente-Matson, Fresno State vice president for administration and chief financial officer.
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11 April 2007
source: BBC News
http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/news/NewsFullStory.asp?ID=1925

Bus shelters in Manchester, UK are to be revamped and fitted with solar-powered panels in order to improve passenger safety and energy efficiency. Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority (GMPTA) has agreed to spend £100,000 on 49 bus shelters. Roof-mounted solar panels will generate electricity during the day which is then stored in batteries to light up the bus shelter at night-time. The new shelters were first trialled at two bus stops last year.
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Energy from the sun, long touted by green activists, has found a more potent patron: business

By Robb Mandelbaum
Source: IEEE Spectrum Online /April 9, 2007
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr07/5036

Rhone Resch stood at the microphone in a conference room in Cambridge, Mass., and asked for a show of hands. “How many people here,“ he demanded, “have a solar system on the roof of their house or their business?” Not more than a dozen people responded. “Now, how many people want to have a solar system on the roof of your house or your business?” This time every hand went up, accompanied by some sheepish chuckling.  “People want to have solar,” explained Resch, the president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, based in Washington, D.C. “There’s an incredible untapped demand here.”
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By Danstan Kaunda, Lusaka, 22 March 2007
source: Voice of America News
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-03-22-voa44.cfm

A project in Southern Africa is helping promote the use of renewable energy sources. It’s called INSABA — The Integrated Southern Africa Business Advisory and is funded by a German NGO called IN-Went. Voice of America’s Kaunda Danstan reports from Lusaka, Zambia, that the Integrated Southern Africa Business Advisory project (INSABA) is being implemented in Zambia, Botswana and South Africa. It aims to improve the use of renewable energy technologies from the sun, wind, water and biomass – that is, materials including animal wastes that can be used to produce energy.
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