I’ve seen this place before. It’s InterSolar North America thats’ returned to San Francisco for InterSolar 2010. It’s easy to understand why people from around the globe love San Francisco. It is a green city and a cultural,economic, technological, intellectual and social mecca for new thinking and change in the world. Renewable power and the solar industry in particular offer a glimpse of a world free from oil pollution. In reality though the future is now not just a distant dream. For example the city of Freiburg is a town of 200,000 people not far from the Black Forrest in Germany whose residents stood up and won against a planned nuclear power plant that was slated to be built in their district. Instead they created a fully sustainable city that integrates solar power. It is considered the greenest city in the world. It serves as a model for municipalities around the globe who emulate its principles and practices. It is a city where 10,000 of its citizens work in green related jobs. The city of Freiburg had a exhibit at the convention.

InterSolar NorthAmerica is an international trade show and conference for information and education on solar photovoltaic products and services. InterSolar also conducts conferences in Munich, Shanghai and Mumbai. This years’ conference attracted 30% more exhibitors than last year and more than 20,000 visitors. But the story isn’t just in the numbers.  It’s in the curiosity of the visitors who attend the show; It’s in the fact that federal stimulus dollars are finding its way to new solar power plants that are opening where shuttered automobile plants once stood. SunPower the northern California solar panel manufacturer plans to open a plant in Milpitus California. In Arizona the Obama administration has just approved a $2 billion project to build the largest solar power plant In the US. Then there are In new innovations such as solar panels built into carports and electric vehicle charging stations. California and indeed the United States is poised to lead the solar power revolution.

The unfortunate loss of life, environmental and economic devastation from the BP oil explosion and subsequent oil gusher dramatically points out the need for clean renewable energy solutions such as solar power.

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City of Lancaster Announces Plans to Partner with SolarCity to Launch Solar Lancaster

Unique Public/Private Partnership Will Create Affordable Solar Options for Local Businesses, Non-profits and Homeowners

The City of Lancaster and SolarCity® today announced plans for Solar Lancaster, one of the most expansive solar community programs ever undertaken. The program, one of the nation’s first combined public/private solar partnerships, has been created to offer all Antelope Valley residents, businesses and non-profit organizations more affordable ways to adopt solar power. The program, which will be considered at tomorrow’s Lancaster City Council meeting, will provide a blueprint for other cities across the nation that want to use cleaner power, create green jobs and reduce dependence on polluting power sources.

Solar Lancaster can allow area homeowners to pay less for solar power than they previously paid for electricity via SolarLease®, SolarCity’s award-winning residential financing option. Businesses and non-profits will also have the option to install solar with no upfront cost, and pay only for the solar electricity their solar arrays produce each month through a power purchase agreement. Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris will sign on as the first residential customer of the program. Sierra Toyota of Lancaster will be the first business to install solar as part of the program, with a 632-kilowatt installation at its new dealership.

“I’m delighted we will be offering a program which will allow Antelope Valley residents, businesses and non-profit organizations to go solar at an extremely affordable price,” said Mayor Parris. “As a City, we’re dedicated to offering ways to help our community go green. We will all benefit from this program, which will help reduce our carbon footprint while creating a number of new jobs in our community.”

SolarCity has opened a local office in the Lancaster Business Park to facilitate the operation of the Solar Lancaster program and create local jobs, and SolarCity plans to help create a local solar training program in partnership with the University of Antelope Valley. Lancaster is also working with SolarCity to install 2.5 megawatts of new solar capacity across six different City sites including City Hall, Clear Channel Stadium and the Lancaster Performing Arts Center.

“The City of Lancaster is demonstrating that individual communities can make a difference with programs that make clean power more affordable than other power sources,” said Jim Cahill, SolarCity’s regional director in Southern California. “Solar Lancaster will create a landmark opportunity for Antelope Valley residents, businesses, schools and other non-profits to install renewable power at an affordable price.”

“Through programs like Solar Lancaster, we are taking full advantage of our renewable natural resources to produce clean energy while also creating sustainable, well-paid jobs in a growing industry for our local residents,” said Parris. “This truly is the future of the Antelope Valley.”

To learn more about the program or to obtain a quote on solar power installation, businesses and homeowners can visit www.solarlancaster.org or call 888-765-2489.

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PAYERNE, Switzerland – An experimental solar-powered plane completed its first 24-hour test flight successfully Thursday, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to stay aloft all night.The test brings the Swiss-led project one step closer to its goal of circling the globe using only energy from the sun. Pilot Andre Borschberg eased the Solar Impulse out of the clear blue morning sky onto the runway at Payerne airfield about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southwest of the Swiss capital Bern at exactly 9 a.m. (0700 GMT; 3 a.m. EDT).

Helpers rushed to stabilize the pioneering plane as it touched down, ensuring that its massive 207-foot (63-meter) wingspan didn’t scrape the ground and topple the craft.”We achieved more than we wanted. Everybody is extremely happy,” Borschberg told reporters after landing. Previous flights included a brief “flea hop” and a longer airborne test earlier this year, but this week’s attempt was described as a “milestone” by the team and comes after seven years of planning.

The team says it has now demonstrated that the single-seat plane can theoretically stay in the air indefinitely, recharging its depleted batteries using 12,000 solar cells and nothing but the rays of the sun during the day. But while the team says this proves that emissions-free air travel is possible, it doesn’t see solar technology replacing conventional jet propulsion any time soon. Instead, the project’s overarching purpose is to test and promote new energy-efficient technologies. Project co-founder Bertrand Piccard, himself a record-breaking balloonist, said many people had been skeptical that renewable energy could ever be used to take a man into the air and keep him there.

“There is a before and after in terms of what people have to believe and understand about renewable energies,” Piccard said, adding that the flight was proof new technologies can help break society’s dependence on fossil fuels.

The team will now start to build a second solar plane that will be more efficient and have a larger cockpit to allow for longer flights. That plane should be ready for international flights by 2013, said Borschberg.The round-the-world flight will eventually be made with five stops along the way.

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SoloPower

a California-based manufacturer of flexible, thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, today announced the launch of its debut CIGS-based, thin-film, lightweight, flexible SFX1-i Photovoltaic module.  The SoloPower SFX1-i module will be on display at InterSolar 2010, July 13th -15th in San Francisco, CA at Shoals Technologies Group booth.

SoloPower produces high-power, lightweight, flexible Photovoltaic modules utilizing a low-cost, roll-to-roll electroplating process.
This low-cost structure combined with the optimized product design creates an unbeatable value proposition.
“SoloPower’s lightweight, flexible, CIGS modules represent a true breakthrough in the solar industry,” said Tim Harris, CEO, SoloPower.

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Solar Summerfest

San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Sacramento are all green cities; Cities that are on the forefront of renewable energy and sustainability. So it comes as not much of a surprise that The California Solar Energy Industries Association (CALSEIA) is hosting the First Annual Solar Summerfest Party Benefiting California’s Solar Industry at CityView, Metreon Rooftop 101 4th Street, San Francisco. Tuesday July 13, 2010, 6:30–10:30 pm. The Reception kicks off InterSolar North America.

This event will attract Intersolar North America’s exhibitors and CALSEIA’s member and potential members from the solar community including Manufacturers, Contractors, Distributors, Engineers, Designers, Consultants, Utilities, Educational organizations, and Local Governments.

Intersolar North America takes place annually in San Francisco’s Moscone Center West Hall. Since its establishment in 2008, the exhibition and conference have developed into the premier platform for the solar industry in North America. Intersolar North America focuses on photovoltaics and solar thermal technology and has very quickly established

itself among manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers and service providers as an international industry meeting point.

The California Solar Energy Industries Association (CALSEIA) is a non-profit organization with the mission to expand the use of all solar technologies in California and establish a sustainable industry for a clean energy future. When the lights go down in the city, the solar professionals come out to celebrate!

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Professor Green

Newcomer rapper Professor Green has just confirmed via Twitter that he just laid down a verse for the new Saturdays single ‘Missing You‘. The song has already premiered along with the video minus the rap. So the question is if this is just for a remix or for the album version. Who knows?

The version featuring Professor Green has yet to premiere and is supposedly coming very soon. Here is the message that Professor Green posted on his Twitter:

Did my verse for the saturdays… Look out for an alternative version of ‘Missing You’ ft. Professor Green soooooooon!

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Saturdays single ‘Missing You

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San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Sacramento are all green cities. Cities that are on the forefront of the renewable energy and sustainable movement. So it comes as not much of a surprise that The California Solar Energy Industries Association (CALSEIA) is hosting the First Annual Solar Summerfest Party Benefiting California’s Solar Industry at CityView, Metreon Rooftop 101 4th Street, San Francisco. Tuesday July 13, 2010, 6:30–10:30 pm. The Reception kicks off InterSolar North America.

This event will attract Intersolar North America’s exhibitors and CALSEIA’s member and potential members from the solar community including Manufacturers, Contractors, Distributors, Engineers, Designers, Consultants, Utilities, Educational organizations, and Local Governments.

Intersolar North America takes place annually in San Francisco’s Moscone Center West Hall. Since its establishment in 2008, the exhibition and conference have developed into the premier platform for the solar industry in North America. Intersolar North America focuses on photovoltaics and solar thermal technology and has very quickly established

itself among manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers and service providers as an international industry meeting point.

The California Solar Energy Industries Association (CALSEIA) is a non-profit organization with the mission to expand the use of all solar technologies in California and establish a sustainable industry for a clean energy future. When the lights go down in the city, the solar professionals come out to celebrate!

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Professor Green

Newcomer rapper Professor Green has just confirmed via Twitter that he just laid down a verse for the new Saturdays single ‘Missing You‘. The song has already premiered along with the video minus the rap. So the question is if this is just for a remix or for the album version. Who knows?

The version featuring Professor Green has yet to premiere and is supposedly coming very soon. Here is the message that Professor Green posted on his Twitter:

Did my verse for the saturdays… Look out for an alternative version of ‘Missing You’ ft. Professor Green soooooooon!

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Saturdays single ‘Missing You

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Taking place from July 13-15 in San Francisco’s Moscone Center West Hall, promotes the development of business opportunities throughout the U.S. solar industry. More than 550 U.S.-based and international exhibitors and 20,000 trade visitors are expected.

Facing Tough PV Manufacturing Challenges: Intersolar North America 2010 to Host Inaugural PV Group North American Fab Managers Forum

Leading Solar Cell-Makers Will Convene at July Event in San Francisco

SEMI PV Group today announced that the first annual North American Fab Managers Forum will be held at Intersolar North America 2010 in San Francisco, California on July 12, 2010. Hosted by SEMI PV Group, the Fab Managers Forum is focused on addressing shared supply chain challenges and improving customer-supplier relations across the photovoltaic supply chain.

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Lobbying for Solar

NEW YORK — Applied Materials Inc. spent $320,000 lobbying the federal government in the first quarter of the year on energy legislation and other issues.

That’s more than double the $130,000 the company spent in the same quarter a year ago, according to congressional disclosure forms, but down from $470,000 spent in the quarter before.

Applied Materials provides technology used by solar panel and semiconductor manufacturers. It lobbied the U.S. House, Senate and various federal agencies on the American Clean Energy & Security Act, which would establish a cap-and-trade system to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

The company also listed a House bill that would direct the Energy Department to establish a solar energy research program.

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