Solar Cells Info

Toronto, November 7, 2007
Source: Opel International, press release
http://opelinc.com/invest.htm

Opel International, a leading, global developer and supplier of concentrating photovoltaic panels (CPVs), today announced it has entered into an exclusive agreement with FEiNA SCP to OEM and market FEiNA’s full line of solar trackers in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Brazil. The solar trackers designed by FEiNA provide an exceptionally high degree of accuracy in tracking the sun’s movement and maximizing the performance of all types of solar panels. These solar trackers can be used in combination with both conventional silicon flat plate panels as well as with different types of CPVs.
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Toronto, Ontario, Nov. 15, 2007
Source: Opel International Inc. press release
http://opelinc.com/invest.htm

OPEL International Inc. (TSX VENTURE:OPL), a leading, global developer and supplier of high efficiency concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) panels , today announced that it has entered into an agreement with ENERGY 21 for a series of installations of OPEL’s state-of-the-art CPV panels in Central Europe. Under the terms of the agreement, ENERGY 21 will install progressively larger systems in the Czech Republic leading to the installation of its first large solar farm in 2008 and 2009. The systems will use OPEL’s Mk-I high concentration CPVs in combination with FEiNA’s solar trackers that OPEL will supply under the provisions of its OEM agreement  with FEiNA. (more…)

Allison Bruce / Scripps Howard News Service
Westlake Village, California, November 17, 2007
Source: Detroitnews
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071117/AUTO03/711170301/1149/auto03

The curved roof of the Toyota Prius in front of the Solar Electrical Systems office is covered with 146 dark, 4-inch-square solar cells. When Greg Johanson first had the idea to give the hybrid car a bit of solar electrical energy, he didn’t know what a challenge that curved roof would present. Johanson’s company had to embed the solar cells into fiberglass and custom mold it.  Tapping the roof, Johanson called the Prius the “worst vehicle” for testing his concept. “I have a habit of doing things backwards,” he said. “If we could make the worst vehicle work, the easy vehicle should be easy.” The company soon will be producing solar panels for Toyota’s Rav4 EV and Highlander, two vehicles with very flat roofs. (more…)

V Krithiga,
Tirunelveli, India, Nov. 16, 2007
Source: NewIndPress.com
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IET20071116021549

The Tirunelveli Corporation’s plans to install solar powered devices under its jurisdiction, is gathering dust for more than two years as the civic body has so far not furnished the details to the Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) which has promised to grant a subsidy for the project.  As part of its quest for reducing the ever-growing electricity bill and to popularise the advantages of using solar-powered gadgets, the previous Tirunelveli Corporation administration had initiated steps to install solar powered devices in some areas under its jurisdiction.
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Source: GlassonWeb.com /November 19, 2007
http://www.glassonweb.com/news/index/6911/

People from Austria enjoy living in harmony with nature, particularly those who live in the region known as Styria, the green heart of the alpine republic. This is probably also why resourceful engineers and investors came up with the idea of generating heat and electricity from sunlight here. In living up to its motto ”A City Full of Energy”, Europe’s first Plus Energy housing estate was founded in the community of Weiz, the capital city of Eastern Styria with a population of 9,000. It consists of 24 row houses that generate more electricity than they consume. Tenants and owners obtain their electrical power from more than 400 multicrystalline solar modules, most of which are type ase 275 from schott. The photovoltaic installations stretch out across the entire southern sides of the houses and simultaneously provide the upper floors with shade.
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Algiers, 14 Nov 2007
Source: Reuters Africa
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL14410372.html

An Algerian company is planning to build a power cable to Germany to export solar-generated electricity from the Sahara, a state-owned newspaper reported on Wednesday. Tewfik Hasni, chief executive of New Energy Algeria (NEAL), said the 3,000 km (1,875 mile) cable would be laid from the Algerian town of Adrar to the German city of Aachen under a project provisionally entitled “Clean Power From The Desert”, El Moudhaid daily reported. He made the remarks at an Algerian-German business meeting held to coincide with a visit to the north African country this week by German President Horst Koehler, the paper said.
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Colorado Daily Staff Report,  November 18, 2007
Source: ColoradoDaily.com
http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2007/11/18/news/c_u_and_boulder/news4.txt

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions may be no easy task, but expect Boulder County to be doing its fair share in the upcoming year. The vision for the future: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012 – with Boulder County just one of the 360 U.S. cities representing more than 55.5 million Americans who pledged to dramatically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions this year.
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Source: Ad-hoc-News.de / 15 nov. 2007
http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/CorporateNews/en/14189216/
The-China-Solar-Cell-Industry-Report-2006-2007-Is-Available

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c74234) has announced the addition of ?China Solar Cell Industry Report, 2006-2007? to their offering.  As the inexhaustible renewable energy as well as the clean energy, solar energy does not cause any environmental pollution. Among various effective applications of solar energy, the photoelectric utilization has been the most booming and vigorous research field in the past years, which enjoys enormous industrialization prospect.
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November 14, 2007
Source: SolidstateTechnology
http://sst.pennnet.com/display_article/312149/5/
ARTCL/none/none/1/Report:-Solar-cell-firms-gunning-for-Japanese-marketshare/

Major overseas solar cell players including China’s Suntech and Germany’s Q-Cells are trying to establish footholds in Japan to challenge the “oligopoly” enjoyed by incumbent Sharp Corp., notes the Nikkei daily.  Following its acquisition of Tokyo-based solar cell maker MSK Corp., Suntech Power Holdings, the world’s No.4 solar cell maker, aims to begin production and sales in Japan as early as next spring out of a factory in Saku, Nagano Prefecture, using solar cells imported from China, the paper reports. Sales goals are the equivalent of 20MW/year, leveraging MSK’s contacts within the home construction sector.
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Sustainable — And Attainable:   D.R. Horton Breaks Green Barrier for Environmentally Friendly Homes With Provence in Natomas
Sacramento, CA. Nov. 7, 2007
Source: SunPower Corp. press release
http://investors.sunpowercorp.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=274606

Buying an environmentally friendly home once came with a unfriendly financial burden, but a new neighborhood planned for Natomas breaks the green barrier in both respects by introducing all-solar, sustainable homes priced within reach of most first-time home buyers.  Built by D.R. Horton, Provence will showcase how sustainable homes can also be attainable homes. The community will eventually build out to 187 homes offered in three different floor plans constructed with the latest solar and energy saving technology. D.R. Horton will also qualify as the first Sacramento-area production home builder to qualify for silver certification granted by LEED — the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design initiative by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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