All About Solar | Green Energy News

June 26, 2005 – Vol.10 No.14

ALL ABOUT SOLAR.

News of the week...

Energy Innovations Solutions has won a contract to build a more-than-half-megawatt solar array for the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District in California.

When complete, the ground-mounted installation will provide up to 594-kilowatts of power and up to 88-percent of the waste water treatment facility’s needs. The array will cover nearly two acres and use 2898, 205-watt modules to be supplied by Sharp Solar. Visit EI Solutions at http://solutions.energyinnovations.com/ .

GE Energy has installed a 45-kilowatt solar system atop its European Global Research Center near Munich, Germany. The system with 256 solar modules is connected to the local power grid and also provides power to a laboratory. Solar energy technology is part of research performed at the Center.

GE’s Solar Technologies division was once AstroPower of Delaware. Visit GE Energy at http://www.gepower.com/ .

Kyocera Solar has announced that its modules were used for a 15-kilowatt solar system atop the SeaBreeze Laundromat in Anaheim, California. Small stuff right? A coin-operated laundromat? Yes, it’s significant.

If a solar system is being used to provide some of the power for a business so ordinary as a laundromat then solar energy has now achieved main stream status - a good thing for solar. Visit Kyocera Solar at http://www.kyocerasolar.com/ .