Solar Cells Info

by Clare Peddie, Environment Reporter /Feb 19, 2008
Source: The Advertiser/AdelaideNow
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23236527-2682,00.html

ADELAIDE’S suburbs can be power stations within five years when solar roof panels and special glass windows become cost-effective, a former Adelaide thinker in residence says.  Urban ecologist Herbert Girardet says if three conditions are met each house can become a solar power station where houses produce more energy than they consume. These conditions are electricity prices going up, solar technology prices going down, and supportive policy in place, such as the State Government’s new feed-in laws that pay for excess electricity fed in to the grid. (more…)

Sam’s Club on Keeaumoku Street is first of four Wal-Mart locations in Hawaii
to receive solar power system
Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan 28, 2008
Source: SunEdison / press release
http://www.sunedison.com/images/press/012808-walmartHI.pdf

Representatives from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) and SunEdison today announced the completion of the first of four solar power systems in Hawaii as part  of a previously announced pilot program on the islands. The 283 kW DC solar power system at the  Sam’s Club on Keeaumoku Street was financed, constructed and will be maintained for Wal-Mart by  SunEdison under a solar power services agreement (SPSA). (more…)

Under Separate Joint Venture Agreements with Blue-Green Capital and Sunergy,  SunEdison Has Seven Megawatts Currently Under Construction
Beltsville, MD & Barcelona, Spain, January 30, 2008
Source: SunEdison/ press release
http://www.sunedison.com/images/press/013008-spain.pdf

SunEdison, a  leading global solar energy services provider, has started construction on seven  megawatts (MW) of photovoltaic (PV) solar power plants in Spain with joint venture  partners Sunergy and Blue-Green Capital. The four ground-mount solar power systems  will be completed by the third quarter of 2008.
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Beltsville, MD, Jan. 31, 2008
Source: SunEdison.com press release
http://www.sunedison.com/images/press/013108-Constellation.pdf

SunEdison, North America’s largest solar energy services provider, today announced a 15-year agreement to sell Constellation Energy Commodities Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG), an estimated four megawatts (MW) of solar renewable energy credits in Maryland. When completed, the installations covered under this agreement will provide 30 percent  of Maryland’s Renewable Portfolio Standard solar energy requirements in 2008, and almost 60 percent in 2009.
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Chico, California, January 14, 2008
Source: RenewableEnergyAccess.com
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=51114

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., a craft brewing company based in California, has announced that it has commissioned the first phase of what will be one of the country’s largest private solar installations. This commissioning comes on the heels of the installation of four 250-kilowatt co-generation fuel cell power units, also one of the largest fuel cell installations in the United States.
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08 Feb 2008
Source: Pink Tentacle.com
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/02/jaxa-testing-space-solar-power-system/
Hokkaido Shimbun /http://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/news/environment/74756.html

For decades, scientists have explored the possibility of using space-based solar cells to power the Earth. Some see orbiting power stations as a clean and stable energy source that promises to slow global warming, while others dismiss the idea as an expensive and impractical solution to the world’s energy problems. While the discussion goes on, researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have begun to develop the hardware.
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Staff report, February 9, 2008
Source: Charleston.net
http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/feb/09/blackbaud_stadium_going_solar30090/

On many nights, Blackbaud Stadium is powered by the Battery. Now the Daniel Island soccer facility will be solar-powered as well.   The Charleston Battery has joined the pro-environmental movement with its a “Go Green” initiative which it hopes will help reduce its carbon footprint.   To achieve this goal, the Battery is implementing a wide range of energy-saving and environmental initiatives at Blackbaud Stadium, highlighted by the installation of 60 solar panels. (more…)

Vacaville, CA, Calif., Jan 31, 2008
Source: OCR Solar & Roofing/press release/PRNewswire
http://www.ocrsolarandroofing.com./

OCR Solar & Roofing and BP Solar, a global leader in solar energy, today announced an expanded agreement to provide turn-key solar installations to production homebuilders throughout Northern and Central California. Within the framework of the expanded agreement, valued at over $10 million, OCR Solar & Roofing will receive the exclusive right to offer BP Solar’s market-leading EnergyTile roof-integrated solar modules to production homebuilders in Northern and Central California. In addition, OCR Solar & Roofing will also offer BP Solar’s low profile Integra(R: 58.44, +0.03, +0.05%) framing system for asphalt shingle roofs.
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By Maggie Ayre, BBC Radio 4 /Costing the Earth/7 February 2008
Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7232328.stm

Even in grey, overcast Britain, some householders are managing to use solar power to meet their energy needs.  But there are far more ambitious plans for Europe to import solar power from huge installations in North Africa.
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Changzhou, China, Jan. 29, 2008
Source: Trina Solar Ltd press release/PRNewswire
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/
CNTU02129012008-1.htm

Trina Solar Limited (“Trina Solar” or the “Company”) and SolarAccess announce the inauguration of 2007’s largest PV system installation in the Netherlands, a roof integrated system at the new Amsterdam Library (Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam).   The project was carried out by SolarAccess, an international provider of PV installations with business in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and France. Trina Solar, a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products from the production of ingots, wafers, and cells to the assembly of PV modules, supplied over 450 units of their 180W solar modules needed for this key project to SolarAccess as part of the long-term relationship between both companies.
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