Solar Cells Info

April 16, 2007
Source:
http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/companies/display_article.aspx?Nav=ns&lvl2=comp&ArticleID=1518-1783_2099331

Abu Dhabi – The United Arab Emirates is still sitting on huge reserves of oil and natural gas, but now it plans to harness yet another of its abundant natural resources – the year-round sunshine.  In the vast desert surrounding the capital Abu Dhabi, the authorities are planning to spread arrays of solar panels to transform the blazing sun into energy.

The plan may be expensive, but the handsome surpluses currently earned from oil revenues can cover the cost. “In the UAE today we do not suffer from a lack of energy security, but we never want to suffer from it,” said Sultan al-Jaber, chief executive officer of the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Adfec).  “We are thinking ahead of ourselves,” he told AFP as he explained Adfec’s initiative to develop alternative energy – branded Masdar, or “source” in Arabic.
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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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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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source:
http://www.nitzana.org.il/1SOLAR%20PARK.htm

Touted as being the crowning jewel of Nitzana, a new solar park is  under development with stage one finished and stage two commencing.  This solar park will educate the young and old alike about the sun,  how it affects our lives and the phenomenal possibilities of capturing  and utilizing the energy of the sun to be used as a main energy source.
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