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Majority of Americans Favor Solar on New Homes (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:03:39
| According to a recent Roper survey commissioned by Sharp Electronics Corporation, nearly 90 percent of Americans think that solar electricity should be an option for all new home construction, up significantly from one year ago (79 percent). Three-quarters of survey respondents perceive solar power to be more important than ever, evidence that Americans recognize the value of solar as a clean, renewable form of energy. |
Satellite Housing Completes Its First Solar Affordable Housing Development (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:03:39
| Satellite Housing, Inc. completed its first solar power installation for Acalanes Court, a 17-unit affordable housing development in Walnut Creek, California, utilizing Borrego Solar's Berkeley team. The 35 kW photovoltaic system services the building's common utility load, producing approximately 4200 kWh of electricity per month. |
Solar Night Industries offers Builders their Solar Synapse Pre-Wire Kit for Renewable Energy in New Home Construction (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:03:39
| Solar Night Industries (OTC: SLND.PK) offers builders their Solar Synapse Pre-Wire Kit for Renewable Energy in New Home Construction. The design behind the Solar Synapse Pre-Wire Kit is to cost-effectively provide Builders a renewable energy option for a new home at a reduction of the cost of the addition of a new, post-construction PV solar energy system. This allows future homeowners the opportunity to easily, and affordably add a solar modern energy system at their leisure. The Solar Synapse Pre-Wire Kit includes all the necessary internal components needed for a Builder to pre-wire the home while under construction, saving incremental parts and labor costs--versus a retrofit system--of over $4,000. |
Mitsubishi Electric Develops Silicon Solar Cell with 18% Conversion Efficiency Rate (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:03:39
| Mitsubishi Electric Corporation President and CEO Setsuhiro Shimomura announced today the company's achievement of a world record photoelectric conversion efficiency rate of 18.0% in a 150mm square practical use multi-crystalline silicon solar cell, an improvement of 1.2% over its previous models. |
Solar EnerTech Signs PV Sales Agreement with Italian Distributor (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:03:39
| Solar EnerTech Corp. signed a five-year sales and distribution agreement with ErgonSolair-WonlexTech Group, an Italian solar products distributor, which is a result of trial purchases and recent visits undertaken by the Italian company at Solar EnerTech's Jin Qiao Technology Park manufacturing facility. |
NH Senate Passes Update to State's Net Metering Law (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 12:04:39
| The New Hampshire Senate passed a revision to the state's net metering laws on Thursday that will raise the size of eligible renewable energy systems to 100-kilowatts (kW). The bill now moves to the Public Utilities Commission for review before ending up on the governor's desk. |
HECO Picks Hoku Solar for Negotiations to Provide PV Power at Facility (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 12:04:39
| Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) is entering negotiations with Hoku Solar, Inc., a subsidiary of Hoku Scientific, Inc. to install a photovoltaic (PV) power system on the roof at a HECO facility. |
Missouri GA Passes Easy Connection Act for Renewable Energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 12:04:39
| The Missouri General Assembly's passage of the Easy Connection Act (ECA) establishes uniform procedures to allow Missourians to connect a small renewable energy system to the electric grid in a quick, safe, and reliable manner. |
ICP Solar Technologies announces new Coleman solar charger program at Walmart's Sam's Club division (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 12:04:39
| ICP Solar Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: ICPR and FRANKFURT: K1U.F) today announced that it has launched its 2007 Coleman Solar Charger programme at Wal-Mart's (NYSE:WMT) Sam's Club division for Samsclub.com |
Centex Homes Offers Sharp Solar Energy Systems in New Home Development in Naples, Florida (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 03:04:16
| Centex Homes will offer solar energy systems from Sharp, the world's leading provider of solar cells, on 89 homes in The Quarry, a new community north of Naples, Florida. Sharp solar systems will be offered on several single-family and estate homes in two "solar neighborhoods" within The Quarry community, designed to augment the power supplied to each home from the grid. |
A New International Climate Change Framework for U.S. Energy Security (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 03:04:16
| Yesterday President Bush announced U.S. support for an effort to develop a new post-2012 framework on climate change by the end of 2008. The plan recognizes that climate change must be addressed in a way that enhances energy security and promotes economic growth. |
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