Solar Cells Info

San Francisco, June 29, 2007
Source: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. /press release
http://www.pge.com/news/news_releases/q2_2007/070629.html

The San Francisco Giants and Pacific Gas and Electric Company today announced the completion of the solar energy system installation at AT&T Park. The panels at AT&T Park, the first ballpark in Major League Baseball (MLB) with a solar system, now provide up to 122 kilowatts of renewable energy for PG&E’s customers in San Francisco and throughout its service area.
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San Francisco, June 27, 2007
Source: PG&EC press release
http://www.pge.com/news/news_releases/q2_2007/070627.html

Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced today it has entered into agreements with two developers of utility-scale photovoltaic solar power: Cleantech America LLC and GreenVolts, Inc. The agreements will deliver up to seven megawatts (MW) of utility-scale renewable solar energy for PG&E’s customers throughout Northern and Central California.
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Denvar, June 29,
Source: Namaste Solar /press release
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070629/aqf045.html?.v=12

Namaste Solar Electric and SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWR – News), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced the completed installation of a 7.4-kilowatt solar power system at the Colorado Governor’s Residence in Denver using SunPower’s high-efficiency solar electric panels.
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Singapore/Seoul, 9 May 2007
Source: SunTechnics / press release
http://www.suntechnics.com/pmeldungen/ST_US_DongYang_070509.pdf

Before the year is over, the largest photovoltaic plant will be constructed in
SinAn, southwest of the Korean capital Seoul. The leading construction company in Korea, Dongyang Engineering & Construction Corporation of Seoul, commissioned the German company SunTechnics, a subsidiary of the TecDax listed Conergy AG (ISIN DE 00060 40025) with the planning and implementation of the 90 million Euro solar power plant.
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Barcelona site to use solar energy for electricity generation, solar hot water for industrial processes
By Brad Kenney, June 15, 2007
Source: Industry Week
http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=14418&SectionID=2

Japanese automobile manufacturer Nissan Motor Co. will install 606 solar panels at its Barcelona vehicle plant by the end of this summer. The new initiative complements other programs either already in place at or planned for other Nissan facilities, including six wind turbines at its UK-based Sunderland plant and 732 panels slated for installation this summer at its light commercial vehicle plant in Avila, Spain.
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Gasabo, Rwanda, 08 Jun 2007, Energy News Editor
Source: EarthTimes.org
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/70841.html

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has inaugurated Africa’s biggest solar energy plant.  The facility, which is installed at Jali hill in Gasabo District, was funded by the German state through a company called Stadtwerke Mainz and Rhineland-Palatinate citizens, the New Times in Kigali reported.  At the launch of the facility, Kagame said there would not have been a better way to mark 25 years of cooperation between Rwanda and Germany.
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By Lester Haines, 8th June 2007
Source: Register.co.uk
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/08/rwandan_solar_plant/

Rwanda yesterday unveiled a 250-kilowatt solar plant which ups the nation’s ‘leccy-producing capacity to 50 megawatts, Reuters reports.  The German-backed project, said to be the largest in Africa, makes a modest contribution to the 100 megawatts the country needs “to meet soaring demand that has triggered regular blackouts”. Rwanda’s hydroelectric plants have struggled to cope, and many businesses get their juice from diesel generators.
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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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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…)

New Requirements for Sustainable Housing in UK Represent Significant Market Opportunity for Solar Energy Systems
Wuxi, China, June 15, 2007
Source: Suntech Power press release /PRWire

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), one of the world’s leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced the demonstration of its MSK Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) system at the OffSite exhibition at the UK Building Research Establishment. The installation is part of Kingspan Off- Site’s innovative “Lighthouse” net-zero carbon home, which is the first house design to achieve the British government’s Code for Sustainable Homes Level 6.

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