Press Releases

Noresco has increased its energy savings performance contract with the State of Hawaii to include USD$2.9 million for a photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation system at the Kalanimoku Building in the downtown Honolulu Capital District. The company is a subsidiary of Carrier Corp., which is a unit of United Technologies Corp.

The first phase of a solar demonstrator with a pilot plant producing 500 kilowatts electricity is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2011 at Qatar Science & Technology Park, executive chairman Tidu Maini has said.

North Jersey Media Group has partnered with KDC Solar to create one of the state’s largest solar facilities, which when operational, will generate approximately 4.2 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually for its Rockaway printing and packaging facility.

Technic is pleased to announce the appointment of Wilson Xia as technical director for Photovoltaics in the Asia/Pacific region. Xia’s primary responsibilities will involve working closely with R&D, Applications Engineering, and strategic customers in development and distribution of Technic’s TechniSol photovoltaic processing technologies.

Suniva, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar cells and modules, has been named as the Commercial Technology of the Year at the 2010 Platts Global Energy Awards. Company CEO and chairman John Baumstark accepted the award at a black-tie gala in New York yesterday evening.

Munro Distributing Company Inc., a premier distributor of energy efficiency, renewable and electrical products, today announced expansion of its product line to include solar thermal/solar hot water.

New Jersey’s rapid emergence as a leader in the solar industry is due to aggressive state incentives and policies that have resulted in an increase from 7.5 kilowatts of installed capacity in 2001 to more than 200 megawatts today.

Since October 2010, the products of the solar module producer Sovello AG headquartered in Thalheim, Germany are listed and available for purchase in Australia, Ireland and Great Britain as well as in Florida and California in the USA.

As part of its fund-raising campaign “More Energy for Children“, S.A.G. Solarstrom AG has donated a 10.6 kWh photovoltaic (PV) system to the SOS Children’s Village in Brno-Medlanky, Czech Republic. The system has now been officially presented to the head of the SOS Children’s Village, Marcela Troubilova.

U.S.-based Virginia Highlands Community College students soon will be able to start their day with a cup of coffee from a solar-powered, eco-friendly coffee shop.