Solar Cells Info

Andrew McCathie, DPA
Freiberg, Germany, June 14, 2007
Source: Eux.TV
http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=9854

Lying in the middle of what was once communist East Germany and shrouded for months under a leaden grey wintry sky, the small 800-year-old town of Freiberg would appear to be an unlikely new centre for the burgeoning global solar energy industry.  But more than 17 years after a popular uprising swept away the Soviet-backed East German state, a network of wind energy farms and new alternative energy companies have been springing up around Freiberg.
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Dinker Vashisht
Dharamshala, June 17, 2007
Source: Indian Express
http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/33815.html

Even familiarity with Dharamshala’s cosmopolitan culture and diverse international population may not prepare one for a Japanese ‘babaji’, equipped with a laptop, running the affairs of an old, revered Hindu temple, which has a Wi-Fi connection. When he is done with his duties as the head priest, the ‘Japani Babaji’, as he is affectionately known, teaches his followers computers. The leitmotif of his preaching is that salvation lies in using technology to gain knowledge and improve one’s life.
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by Tylene, June 5, 2007
Source: Inhabitat.com
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/06/05/rizhao-the-sunshine-city/

Rizhao means “sunshine” in Chinese, which is quite an appropriate moniker… Since 2001, Rizhao City (Shandong Province, China) officials have been educating the public and initiating new building regulations to promote the use of solar panels in their city. Traffic lights, street lamps and over 60,000 greenhouses are solar powered. Today, the city of nearly three million has over a half-million square meters of solar water heating panels—99% of households in the central districts use solar water heaters and more than 30% do so in the outlying villages.
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6 June 2007
Source: GoKunming.com
http://gokunming.com/en/blog/item.php?blog_id=295

Kunming has some of the sunniest skies found in any Chinese city. Many visitors to the Spring City wonder why with so many beautiful days each year there aren’t more rooftop gardens, cafes or restaurants. One major reason for this is the overwhelming number of Kunming rooftops that are covered with solar water heaters.
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June 8, 2007
Source: Techshout.com
http://www.techshout.com/mobile-phones/2007/08/

Solar-powered Mobile Phone Hi-Tech Wealth, a well known telecommunication products supplier in China has developed a mobile phone that utilizes solar energy to recharge itself. The company also claims that it is the world’s first to use solar power to recharge a phone battery.  According to the company, a scale-like solar panel on the top side of the clamshell-designed phone can also be recharged by light from other sources including candles.
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An hour of sunshine gives enough juice for a 40-minute call
J. Mark Lytle, 12 Jun 2007
Source: Tech.co.uk
http://www.tech.co.uk/gadgets/phones/mobile-phones/news/first-solar-powered-mobile-phone-hits-china?articleid=1046418232

Readers living in the UK might not be too concerned about yet another solar-powered gadget, but for those of us in the Far East, the latest mobile phone to go on sale in China has a distinct appeal.  The £250 S116 handset from Chinese firm Hi-Tech Wealth and first seen as a prototype at CeBIT this year is a mostly average phone except for its claim to being the world’s first solar-powered mobile. Moreover, the company’s claims make it sound like they’ve managed to get some impressive mileage out of those little solar panels.
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by Bosire Nyairo
Source: Business Daily Africa
http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1441&Itemid=4928

Dealers in solar panels have urged Kenya’s standards body to intensify quality assurance measures against imports and false labelling of poor-performing panels.  The Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) has the role of inspecting solar power items for standards and power ratings.  But some solar panel importers said Kebs’ regulatory mechanisms were failing to catch a glut of panels in the local market that do not meet Kenyan market and that do not match their advertised level of performance.
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Geoffrey Ramos, AHN News Writer,
Manila, Philippines, June 15, 2007
Source: All Headline News
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007652712

Chinese power firm Sichuan Electric Power Co. is considering the development of a $1 billion-solar and wind farm in the northern part of the Philippines.  Special Envoy for China Francis Chua confirmed Sichuan’s proposed plan, which was one of the major business investments discussed during President Gloria Arroyo’s recent visit to China.
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St. Louis Park, Minn., June 15, 2007
Source. EarthTimes.org
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/73188.html

St. Louis Park, Minn., is installing a Wi-Fi network powered with the use of solar technology. The city said it is installing a 400 access-point solar-powered Wi-Fi network, called ParkWiFi. The network is designed to provide wireless Internet coverage across all 10 square miles of the city, a suburb of Minneapolis with 44,000 residents, according to the city and Arinc Inc., the Annapolis, Md.-based contractor on the project, Computerworld reported. (more…)

Los Angeles, CA, June 14, 2007
Source: Los Angeles dBusiness News
http://losangeles.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=122787

Metropolitan Water District is looking toward the sun to help generate the power needed to treat water–one of several options the agency is exploring to reduce its carbon footprint.  “This demonstrates how serious we are about addressing our carbon footprint,” said Metropolitan Chairman Timothy F. Brick, after MWD’s Board of Directors Tuesday authorized design work on a solar-powered generation plant at the district’s Robert A. Skinner Water Treatment Plant near Temecula in southwest Riverside County.
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