The Northern California Solar Energy Association (NorCal Solar) announced its eighth annual Solar Home Tour on Saturday, October 2, 2004. This year, 85 homeowners in more than 30 communities throughout Northern California will open their doors to show what it's like to use renewable energy sources to heat, cool and light their homes, and to […]
Evergreen Solar Inc. (Marlboro, MA), a developer, marketer and manufacturer of photovoltaic products, recently completed the installation of a solar photovoltaic (PV)...
SMA America Inc. (Grass Valley, CA) announced the latest addition to its line of Sunny Boy inverters, the Sunny Boy 6000U, which has a peak efficiency of 95.3% and can handle photovoltaic (PV) systems that in the past took multiple Sunny Boys. The Sunny Boy 6000U makes it practical to install much larger systems while […]
United Solar Ovonic Corp. (Uni-Solar Ovonic, Auburn Hills, MI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ECD, Rochester Hills, MI), announced that it has received an additional order of 750 kW of photovoltaic (PV) products from Alwitra GmbH & Co. (Germany), a leading manufacturer of building-integrated PV products, which increases the total planned […]
Evergreen Solar Inc. (Marlboro, MA), a developer, marketer and manufacturer of photovoltaic products, announced that it has secured a $5 million credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank, the primary banking subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bancshares. The $5 million revolving credit line is available to the company for a period of 12 months. The funds will […]
Hebei I.T. Shanghai Co. Ltd. (China) released its 10 mm L-833VW5C super-bright white LEDs, suitable for emergency flashlights, which feature a luminous...
Clean Energy Inc. (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) has finalized the acquisition of an international exclusive license from HPA LLC for a turnkey hydrogen delivery system for internal combustion engines. Clean Energy intends to complete, in the coming 24-month period, a market-ready conversion system for a select group of pre-owned and new American vehicle models for use […]
The California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP, West Sacramento, CA) has released a study that concludes that existing parking garages and service stations can safely handle vehicles running on hydrogen fuel cells. The partnership expects the report to help designers and code developers regarding commercialization plans for hydrogen-fueled vehicles and supporting infrastructure. Modeling scenarios concluded that […]
Three buses powered by hydrogen fuel cells have arrived in Perth, Australia, ahead of one of the first major trials of the power source in the world. Beginning next month, the three DaimlerChrysler AG (Auburn Hills, MI) hydrogen fuel cell buses will be trialed on normal Perth service routes for two years, and are touted […]
Germany's capital city of Berlin is working with Volvo and fuel cell maker Proton Motor GmbH (Starnberg, Germany) to replace its aging...
International Nanotechnology Corp. (INC.), the wholly owned subsidiary of GEMZ Corp. (New York), has made forward progress towards development of a solar-powered solution for powering cell phones and laptop computers. INC previously announced that it had signed a letter of intent with Terra Solar Development Corp. (TSDC), a leading developer of photovoltaic and nanocell technology, […]
Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), a developer of power electronics for renewable energy applications, announced that it has entered into a bonded inventory management program with Future Electronics to guarantee the supply of critical power electronics components on a timely and cost-effective basis for the production of the company's fuel cell and solar […]
RWE SCHOTT Solar Inc. (RSS, Rocklin, CA), a manufacturer and distributor of solar-electric modules and systems, reported that it is setting up an additional 40 MW cell capacity at its headquarters in Alzenau, as well as 40 MW module capacity in the Czech Republic. At its SmartSolarFab® photovoltaic production plant, two new cell lines are […]
Sharp Electronics Corp., a marketing subsidiary of Sharp Corp. (Japan), has developed a new generation of lighting products by using solar cells...
Konarka Technologies Inc. (Lowell, MA), a developer and manufacturer of photovoltaic nano-materials products that convert light to energy, reported that it has added Nobel Laureate and former Bell Labs chief scientist Arno Penzias to its Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Council. Penzias is the second Nobel Laureate to join Konarka's scientific team, which includes […]