Allegheny Energy Solutions (Hagerstown, MD) has added Siemens Solar Industries (SSI, Munich, Germany) to its portfolio of suppliers for distributed generation products. Through its agreement with SSI, Allegheny Energy Solutions will provide its customers with a comprehensive offering of solar electric solutions called earthsafe. These systems are suitable for industrial, commercial and residential applications. According […]
Endeavour astronauts completed their third and final spacewalk to wire up huge solar energy panels to the International Space Station before returning safely to Earth on 11 December 2000. The $600 million solar wings, stretching 240 feet from tip-to-tip and 38 feet wide, are the largest, most powerful ever built for a spacecraft. They can […]
Villagers of Porvenir, a remote village in Bolivia, have been communicating via the Internet since October 2000 on computers and a satellite connection powered by solar photovoltaic panels. This was made possible by a donation from American Electric Power (AEP, Columbus, OH) as well as the efforts of a dozen private and public partners. Paul […]
Mondial de l'Automobile, also known as the Paris Auto Show, saw the presentation of many new and experimental concept-cars, but Citroën's (France)...
Sustainable Development International (SDI, Alberta, Canada) plans to introduce various alternative energy initiatives to the US Department of Energy, the Canadian Federal government and the Alberta Provincial government. The US Department of Energy is proposing a $140,000,000 program to assist the US in becoming energy self-sufficient by the year 2010. The Canadian and Alberta governments […]
BP Solar (Linthicum, MD) converted a convenience store in Tucson, AZ to solar energy in an effort to demonstrate some of the real world applications of photovoltaic technology. Solar energy will now provide approximately 10 percent of the electricity required to operate the BP-owned ARCO am/pm convenience store. Conversion of the am/pm to the use […]
Spire Corp. (Bedford, MA) reported revenues and results of operations for the three- and nine-month periods ended 30 September 2000. Revenues for this quarter were $2,826,000, compared with $2,722,000 for the quarter ended 30 September 1999. Net loss for the quarter was $127,000, or $0.04 per share, compared to a net loss of $862,000, or […]
Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, joined by members of the American Institute of Architects, have announced the winner of the Department of Energy's Sun Wall National Design Competition. Four Chicago-area architects were chosen from the pool of 115 entries for a prize of $20,000. The winners are Martin Wolf, Mark Frisch, Devon Patterson and Duane […]
Bekaert ECD Solar Systems LLC (Troy, MI) announced today that Carsten Bethge, formerly the senior director of worldwide sales for Siemens Solar Industries, has joined the company as vice president of sales and marketing. Bethge has extensive industry experience in senior sales and marketing positions, and will lead the sales and marketing department from the […]
Unipower Telecom (Coral Springs, FL) has introduced the INV2500 inverter, which achieves 7.0VA per cubic inch. The INV2500 is capable of producing...
The price of shares in the initial public offering of Evergreen Solar Inc. (Waltham, MA) fell into the middle of the expected range, at $14 per share. The company grossed $42.0 million dollars by selling three million shares of its common stock. Proceeds are planned to go toward expansion, research and development in the use […]
AstroPower Inc. has announced that it has filed an S-3 Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed public offering of two million shares of common stock to be sold by the company. In addition, the offering will include a 300,000 share over-allotment option granted to the underwriters consisting of 200,000 […]
AstroPower Inc. (Newark, DE) has announced that its packaged solar-electric-power SunUPS photovoltaic system is the first photovoltaic system with battery storage to be approved under the Florida Photovoltaic Buildings Program of the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC). As a result of the approval, utilities and other program partners can receive rebate funds from the state […]
The US Department of Justice has sued AstroPower Inc. (Newark, DE), seeking up to $7.9 million dollars in damages for 100 allegedly false claims related to how the company allocated indirect costs in their Department of Defense contracts.In papers filed in the US District Court in Delaware, the government claimed that from 1991 through 1995, […]
AstroPower Inc. (Newark, DE) announced that it is expanding its marketing staff. The company recently completed a pilot program, called SunChoice, offering fully-packaged power systems to homes and businesses receiving traditional electric service. SunChoice is a rooftop solar system which connects to the normal utility grid and includes everything a consumer needs to generate his […]