Solar Cells Info

By Stephanie Brown, September 23, 2007
Source: NJ.com
http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1190532324185840.xml&coll=8&thispage=3

As the Delsea Regional school district decides to move forward on a large solar energy project, the timing of its decision may cost it nearly $500,000. That’s because it is catching the state midstream in changing what has been the most generous renewable energy incentive program in the nation. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities’ Clean Energy Program promotes increased energy efficiency and the use of clean, renewable energy sources, like solar, by offering financial incentives, programs and services for residential, commercial and municipal customers. The program is funded by the state’s ratepayers, who pay a societal benefits charge on their electricity/gas bills.
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September 24, 2007, Long Beach, CA
Source: DT Solar, press release
http://www.turnerenewablenergy.com/9-24-07TWCrelease.html

DT Solar, a Turner Renewable Energy Company, and ProCaps Laboratories/TWC Construction today announced that they will work together to design and install a 700 kW solar electric generating system at the headquarters of ProCaps and TWC in Henderson, Nevada.  The system will be the largest of its type in the state of Nevada.   The 700 kW system will be installed as part of a steel structure covering a parking lot adjacent to the 200,000 square foot ProCaps headquarters. Both ProCaps and TWC Construction will be supplied with electricity generated by the system.  The system, in conjunction with an existing solar system, will provide nearly 1 MW of solar power during the midday hours, meeting the electric needs of both facilities for many days of the year.
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September 28, 2007, New Brunswick, NJ
Source: DT Solar, press release
http://www.turnerenewablenergy.com/9-28-07Hallsrelease.html

DT Solar, a Turner Renewable Energy company, and Hall’s Warehouse Corporation, a family-owned refrigerated and frozen food storage and distribution company, today announced an agreement to build a 2 MW solar electric power system to supply electricity to their facility in South Plainfield, New Jersey.  When completed, this project will be the largest rooftop solar electric system serving a private company in the United States.  The solar power system will be located in South Plainfield, NJ, on one of Hall’s seven state-of-the-art frozen and refrigerated warehouses serving the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. The solar array will consist of approximately 13,500 solar modules, will produce nearly 3 million kWh of clean energy and will eliminate more than 2 million pounds of CO2  emissions annually.
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By Sierra Countis, Sentinel Correspondent, Aptos, CA, Sept 30, 2007
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel.com
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/September/30/local/stories/05local.htm

A proposal to equip Cabrillo College with $8 million worth of solar panels — in what would be one of the county’s largest solar projects — is looking brighter.  A three-way deal between the college, Santa Cruz-based Solar Technologies and San Francisco-based Generating Assets is in the works to meet up to 20 percent of the community college’s power needs. Under the proposed 15- to 20-year agreement, Solar Technologies would install and maintain the panels, Generating Assets would provide the bulk of the financing, and the college would pay Generating Assets for the power generated. (more…)

Rady School One of the First Business Schools to Use Solar Panels on Primary Campus Building, Project Was Student-Driven
Source: KyoceraSolar.com / press release / Sept 24, 2007
http://www.kyocerasolar.com/news/news_detail.cfm?key=441

The University of California, San Diego’s Rady School of Management and Kyocera today inaugurated the 18 kilowatt Kyocera solar power system atop Otterson Hall, a new facility for the Rady School. The system will provide an additional power source for the school’s 50,000 square foot facility on the UC San Diego campus, which will minimize the school’s and the campus’ energy costs for decades to come. This student-driven project makes the Rady School one of the first business schools in the country to use solar panels on their main campus building.
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By Farin Montañez, The Fresno Bee,  Sept 30, 2007
Source: FresnoBee.com
http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/152171.html

During Fresno’s sweltering August, Steve Durbano watched his electricity meter spin backward when it was sunny, and he paid a mere $22.07 to PG&E — a savings of about $400.  His secret: 28 solar panels installed on the roof of his north Fresno home that create enough power for his family of five — and even provide additional electricity to the power grid most of the day. “I don’t dread the PG&E bill coming,” he said as he showed off his solar system Saturday during the third annual Fresno Solar Tour.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 10, 2007
Source: UniRac press release
http://www.unirac.com/unirac/news070918.html

UniRac is pleased to have been chosen by EI Solutions to play an integral role in the largest corporate solar installation in the U.S. to date, on Google’s solar panel installation at their Mountain View, CA campus. The milestone project was completed in May 2007, far earlier than initially projected.  With 9,000 panels to rack and a variety of roof styles to contend with, UniRac performed custom engineering analysis of the structures to match the best products with each roof. A non-penetrating racking system was used for the standing-seam roofs which UniRac was readily able to accommodate. (more…)

Clean Energy Information Service Provider Set to Present, Exhibit at Solar Power 2007
San Jose, CA, Sept. 18, 2007
Source: PR Newswire/Money.CNN.com
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQTU10318092007-1.htm

Fat Spaniel Technologies, the leading provider of critical information services for the renewable energy industry, monitors the solar energy system at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, the venue for the Solar Power 2007 Conference and Expo. MMA Renewable Ventures, LLC, a subsidiary of Municipal Mortgage & Equity owns the 750-kW rooftop photovoltaic system that supplies a portion of the power used each year by the Convention Center. Delivering reliable real-time and historical performance data, Fat Spaniel adds value to the Long Beach solar installation by providing maintenance alerts, revenue-grade reporting and an interactive lobby kiosk display.
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By Sandra Upson
Source: IEEE Spectrum /Oct 7, 2007 issue
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct07/5568

It’s another brilliant day at the world headquarters of the hottest company on the planet. Some shirtless employees are playing a lunchtime game of volleyball while others stride across campus with laptops tucked under their arms. The place fairly crackles with energy, and in more ways than one.  Up here on a roof at Google’s leafy and sprawling Mountain View, Calif., campus, with the shouts of the volleyball game just barely audible, sunlight glints off 9212 polysilicon solar panels stretching out toward the horizon. Amid the irregular jumble of angular roofs, a single south-facing wave stands out, a pitch and roll frozen in place against a backdrop of foothills.
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by Ann Braybrooks, September 24, 2007
Source: Chronogram.com
http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2007/10/Community+Notebook/Solar-Attraction

Renewable energy. The arts. Combine the two to create a unique arts and business complex powered by sunlight, an existing waterfall, and possibly even recycled vegetable oil from local restaurants. Do this by rehabilitating and redeveloping a sprawling former box-board mill that straddles a section of the Stonycreek Kill, about a mile from the village of Chatham.

Add all kinds of cool things: artist studios; workshop space for ecofriendly woodworking, metalsmithing, and tilemaking businesses; and a huge green building center, where prefab homes with integrated energy-efficient systems can be manufactured. Maybe even construct a carbon-neutral ecovillage on the property adjacent to the mill, and simply move those energy-efficient, prefab dwellings down the road. Encourage residents to leave their cars in a lot off the main thoroughfare and use electric vehicles, or, better yet, their legs and feet, to get to their front doors. Some residents might even be able to walk from work to home if they hold one of the “green-collar” jobs at the Solaqua complex, or if they work at the restaurant or performance space envisaged for the property. (more…)