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Household solar systems have turned sunlight to electricity for some 100,000 rural Indians.

Ishani Mukherjee,  May 4, 2007
Source: Worldwatch.org
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5059
A solar photovoltaics (PV) pilot project in India has transformed the lives of approximately 100,000 people living in poverty-stricken rural regions by providing several hours of uninterrupted lighting every night. The goal of the $1.5 million project, led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), was to facilitate household financing for solar home systems. Its success has inspired satellite programs to improve energy access in Algeria, China, Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, and Mexico.
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Supported by the 2007 California Solar Initiative, the $7.5 Million, Eight-Acre Solar Energy Plant Will Alleviate Demand on Central Valley’s Municipal Power Grid During Summer Months

Lost Hills, CA, May 24, 2007
Source: Business Wire
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070524005027&newsLang=en

Paramount Farms, the world’s largest vertically integrated supplier of pistachios and almonds, today announced the opening of the Paramount Farms’ Solar Plant, a 1.1 mega-watt, $7.5 million solar energy plant in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Spanning eight acres, it is the largest single-site, privately-owned, operating solar plant in the U.S. and is expected to supply about 15 percent of the energy that the company’s nut processing facility uses each year.
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25 May 2007 /Release of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP
http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/CorporateNews/en/11865889/

Young generation of engineers builds new solar racing car for world championship in Australia.  After about one year of development time SolarWorld AG will be presenting its new type of racing car called SolarWorld No.1 to the public fort he first time on the occasion of ist Annual General Meeting. The racer propelled by the power of the sun was developed and built by engineering students of the Bochum University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with SolarWorld AG.

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24 May 2007
Source: Carbonfree.co.uk
http://www.carbonfree.co.uk/cf/news/wk21-07-0005.htm

SolarCity, a community-wide installer of solar systems, has completed two additional cooperative solar power programs to enable and accelerate the migration to renewable energy sources.  In the communities of Mountain View and Woodside, California, residents together subscribed to 557kW of renewable, neighborhood-produced energy during the six-week program, which completed on April 30. SolarCity will complete installation on all the homes this summer.
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Peter Capella / 23 May 2007
Source: cooltech.iafrica.com
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/science/892267.htm

A dainty solar-powered plane with wings the width of a giant Airbus will retrace exploits in aviation history, including Charles Lindbergh’s first ever transatlantic crossing, before a pioneering round-the-world flight in 2011, project leaders said on Tuesday.  The “Solar Impulse” project led by Swiss round-the-world balloon pioneer Bertrand Piccard, undertook real-time computer simulations of a circumnavigation this week, a year before a prototype is due to take to the air.
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Plainfield, Indiana, May 22, 2007
Source: Duke Energy /press release
http://www.duke-energy.com/news/releases/2007052201.asp

Duke Energy has installed photovoltaic systems in 10 Indiana schools to raise awareness of solar power among future generations.
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WorldWater & Power Announces Award of 20-Year Solar Electric Power Purchase Contract for Fresno Yosemite International Airport – Two Megawatt Project Valued at $16 Million

Pennington, N.J., April 12, 2007
Source: Worldwater & Power Corp. Press release
http://www.worldwater.com/pages/worldwaternews.html

WorldWater & Power Corp. (OTC BB:WWAT.OB-News), developer and marketer of proprietary high-power solar systems, today announced that it has been awarded a 20-year solar electric power purchase contract by the Fresno City Council for the sale of solar electricity from a 2 MW state-of-the-art solar electric power system to be located at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport. (more…)

Staff reporter, The Telegraph, Calcutta India /26 May 2007
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070526/asp/calcutta/story_7823724.asp

A housing estate “fully powered by solar energy”, a first in the country, is coming up in New Town, Rajarhat.   Work on Rabi Rashmi, being developed by the West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA), started in February last year and is likely to be ready by November.
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18 May 2007  Source:
http://www.javno.com/en/economy/clanak.php?id=43916

Our western neighbours will soon build the first solar power plant with collectors next to the highway.
Putting solar collectors on noise isolating fences next to highways in. Europe is nothing new and now Slovenia has one such first project, it was reported on May 15.  As Ljubljana newspaper Delo reported on May 14, the noise isolating fence that will be built on the fast road next to the border crossing Vrtojba, 640 metres long and two and a half metres high, will have solar cells, and the power of the solar power plant, plugged into an electric network, will be 80 kw.
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by Sally Williams, Western Mail / May 18 2007
Source:  http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/

A WELSH firm claims it is on the cusp of a “global energy revolution” using its innovative solar panels that even work in the rain.  American entrepreneur Bob Hertzberg plans to revolutionise household gadgets – including mobile phones, iPods and laptops – with solar cells that work in all conditions, and are soon to go into mass production at his new Cardiff factory.  The climate change campaigner, who ran for Mayor of Los Angeles in 2005, says his G24i company uses nano-sized titanium crystals that turn sunlight into electricity, with no more need for electrical chargers.
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