Germany isn’t  known as a place with lots of sunshine. Yet it has become a world leader in solar and renewable energy. In 2000 the Green Party led by Hans – Jofsef Fell who was involved in the creation of the Energy Watch Group helped create Germany’s Renewable – Reichstag in Berlin – A solar gem

- Energy Sources Act  which provided incentives to encourage the use of renewable energy. In 1998  30,000 people were employed in renewable energy related jobs including solar. In 2010 that number had increased ten times  to over 300,000. A remarkable fete that helped stabilize the country during the recent global financial crisis, cut pollution and reduced Germany’s dependence on foreign sources of energy and fossil fuels. By 2009 it was receiving 16% of its energy from renewable energy ahead of its goal of 12% by 2010. German officials are predicting it will be using 100 % renewable energy by 2030.

Hans – Jofsef Fell along with Elicke Weber were panelist at the recent the InterSolar conference in San Francisco. InterSolar North America 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. Fell has traveled the globe as an agent of change for green clean renewable energy. Following his visit to Turkey, plans for a nuclear power plant at Akkuyu were stopped, and Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit declared that his government would foster renewable technologies. In Taiwan, following Fells’ television appearances and talks with individual policy makers, the government announced the withdrawal of its plans to build the country’s fourth nuclear power plant, and its intent to phase out nuclear power by 2020. Prof. Dr. Elicke Weber has an international reputation as a materials scientist and is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency. In 2006, he became director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg. The Fraunhofer Institute is one of the world’s leading research organizations for solar energy technologies. It draws on a network of scientists offering a broad portfolio of skills covering the entire process chain of solar energy systems.  Prior to joining Fraunhofer ISE, Prof. Weber spent 23 years at UC Berkeley. Both Fell and Weber are global leaders in the area of sustainable energy and are discussions with California and US energy officials.

The Energy Watch Group founded in 2006 which Hans – Jofsef Fell now leads functions with the understanding that energy-political decisions are still made on the basis of information which is outdated and motivated by special interests. In many countries further nuclear reactors and coal power stations are to be built although the fuels are knowingly becoming scarce. The Energy Watch Groups’ purpose is to help governments secure power supply on a long-term basis at affordable prices, avoid of conflicts about energy, and establish effective climatic and environmental policy that’s based on the necessary scientific unobjectionable information, independent of economic interests for a sustainable energy policy. The Germans are doing it and so can the United States.

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Carolinas Among First Regional EV Charging Markets

A member of US-CAP, Duke Energy plans to build its own car-charging infrastructure in South Carolina as the Nissan Leaf (all battery-electric) and Chevy Volt (plug-in plus extended range) and other plug-in electric vehicles start to become available in the US later this year.
According to Mike Rowland, Duke Energy’s director of advanced customer technology, speaking to the Electric Drive Transportation Association, Charlotte and Raleigh will be among the dozen or so U.S. cities with the most demand for EVs. A study last year recommended that with such a massive switch in fuel and infrastructure, that the US needed to plan an organized roll-out with a series of regional hubs with a certain density of public fast-charging stations, and once these are established, to then fill out the infrastructure to include wider regions of the nation. Unlike the first regional hubs such as California, the Carolinas do not already get a high percentage of electricity from low carbon sources, including hydro and nuclear power.

Electric vehicles help the environment most if they are rolled out in areas where they will use renewable energy, but even on a typical (45% coal-powered) grid, create less greenhouse gas than gasoline vehicles. North Carolina has a Renewable Energy Standard and must begin to add increasing amounts of renewable energy to the grid (North Carolina, 10 – 16% by 2021. South Carolina has no RES but an assortment of incentives and building codes encouraging a greener grid.
Duke itself has pioneered distributed solar installations as part of meeting renewable requirements. Several companies are competing to provide public fast-charging infrastructure in the US. While most charging will be done relatively slowly, overnight at home, a speedy fill-up will also be needed at public charging stations, and a network is planned in several key regions to facilitate the adoption of the first electric vehicles in the US.

As part of a $37 million program with the Department of Energy, San Jose-based Coulomb Technologies will roll out 4,600 stations in nine US regions. PG&E just installed the first Fast Charge station in the nation, midway between Sacramento and the Bay Area, in Vacaville. Nissan will work with California’s Aerovironment to develop South Carolina’s network of EV-charging stations, among more than 260 fast charge stations in other key “first adopter regions” around the US. With the announcement by the DOE of a limited number of regional hubs to receive infrastructure support, there has been great competition to be among the chosen first adopter regions. South Carolina was among those that succeeded in making the case for being among the first early hubs, with help from the state’s major utilities like Duke, the advocacy of non-profit Plug In Carolina and the presence in the state of a substantial automotive parts and components industry.

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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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By ELIANE ENGELER, Associated Press Writers

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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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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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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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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A source of solar energy?

 

This 4th of July season the ideals of freedom are ever present. The green sustainability movement is sweeping the country as scientists, environmentalist, agents of change and citizens from all aspects of our society begin to grapple with the what it means to be free. As exploration into alternate sources of energy continues it appears that researches from Cornell University are reporting organic material similar to that found in blue jeans functions as solar cells. There’s plenty of research to be completed but the solar industry has been researching efficiency, thin film and plant like material to lower costs.

Making better solar cells: Cornell University researchers have discovered a simple process – employing molecules typically used in blue jean and ink dyes – for building an organic framework that could lead to economical, flexible and versatile solar cells. The discovery is reported in the journal Nature Chemistry.

Today’s heavy silicon panels are effective, but they can also be expensive and unwieldy. Searching for alternatives, William Dichtel, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, and Eric L. Spitler, a National Science Foundation American Competitiveness in Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell, employed a strategy that uses organic dye molecules assembled into a structure known as a covalent organic framework (COF). Organic materials have long been recognized as having potential to create thin, flexible and low-cost photovoltaic devices, but it has been proven difficult to organize their component molecules reliably into ordered structures likely to maximize device performance.

At the core of the framework are molecules called phthalocyanines, a class of common industrial dyes used in products from blue jeans to ink pens. Phthalocyanines are also closely related in structure to chlorophyll, the compound in plants that absorbs sunlight for photosynthesis. The compounds absorb almost the entire solar spectrum – a rare property for a single organic material.

“For most organic materials used for electronics, there’s a combination of some design to get the materials to perform well enough, and there’s a little bit of an element of luck,” Dichtel said. “We’re trying to remove as much of that element of luck as we can.”

The structure by itself is not a solar cell yet, but it is a model that will significantly broaden the scope of materials that can be used in COFs, Dichtel said. “We also hope to take advantage of their structural precision to answer fundamental scientific questions about moving electrons through organic materials.”

Once the framework is assembled, the pores between the molecular latticework could potentially be filled with another organic material to form a light, flexible, highly efficient and easy-to-manufacture solar cell. The next step is to begin testing ways of filling in the gaps with complementary molecules.

It’s easy to recognize there can be plenty of heat in a pair of jeans, but who would have thought it could be turned into solar energy.

The National Science Foundation provided funding for this research.

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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.

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Text: PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  Everybody please have a seat.  (Applause.)  It is wonderful to be here and to see all of you here today.  And I would be remiss if I did not note the presence of your governor, give him a big round of applause, Arnold Schwarzenegger.  (Applause.)  I’m just going to go ahead and mention our district attorney, Kamala Harris, who’s here.  (Applause.)

It is great to be in Fremont, good to be back in Northern California.  I was reminiscing a little bit — Michelle and I took our honeymoon in Napa Valley.  That was almost 17 years ago when we drove down the Pacific Coast Highway, and so I was — I was fantasizing about going and renting a car.  (Laughter.)  But I was told that would cause a stir, so next time.

But it’s wonderful to be here in Northern California.  It is always nice to get out of Washington a little bit.  Now, don’t get me wrong, the capital is a beautiful place, nice monuments.  I have no commute — (laughter) — which very few people in California can say is true for them.

But the truth of the matter is, is that when you’re in Washington a lot of times all you’re thinking about or all that’s being talked about is politics — who’s up, who’s down, the contest between the parties, instead of people remembering why it is that they aspired to go into politics in the first place.  We end up getting caught up in the moment instead of what is important for the future.

So I try to visit places like this about once a week, hear from folks as often as possible who are actually doing the extraordinary work of building up America.  And I appreciated the chance to tour your plant and to see the incredible, cutting-edge solar panels that you’re manufacturing, but also the process that goes into the manufacturing of these solar panels.  And it is just a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism and the fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly the best workers in the world.  And you guys all represent that.  So thank you very much for that.  (Applause.)

And while I’m at it, I also want to give some credit to those guys in the back who have been building this facility so that we can put more people back to work and build more solar panels to send all across the country.  Thank you for the great work that you guys are doing.  (Applause.)

Now, it’s fitting that this technology is being pioneered here in California.  Where else, right?  For generations, this part of the country has embodied the entrepreneurial spirit that has always defined America’s success.  People heading West.

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