The Solar Impulse aircraft, which is powered only by solar energy, has triumphantly completed its first night flight. The ultralight aircraft was airborne for a total of 26 hours - from 7 am on July 7 until 9 am the following day (Central European Time) - before finally landing as planned at Payerne airbase in Switzerland. It is now officially the first manned aircraft capable of flying day and night without fuel, powered entirely by solar energy.
Yingli Green Energy, the Yingli Solar brand holder and a global leader in the manufacture of photovoltaic solars, has auctioned an original FIFA world cup football to Wirsol Solar AG for a sum of 21,000 Euros which in turn has been donated for funding African charitable projects.
SunPower Systems is all set to feature in the historic landmark Berlin theatre. MBG, an authorized partner of SunPower, has announced that it has finished installing SunPower Systems on the roof of the largest performance stage in the entire world, the FriedrichstadtPalast, with a high efficiency capacity of 29.7 KW.
Air Products will construct a solar farm on an area spanning 12 acres at the company’s corporate headquarters located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, capable of producing 1.5 MW of electrical energy.
SoloPower, a global major in the manufacture of thin film, flexible solar photovoltaic modules and cells, has announced the launch of its SFX1-i photovoltaic module. This is a flexible, lightweight, thin film and CIGS based photovoltaic module.
SunPower and ETS (Educational Testing Service) have teamed up for providing clean energy solar systems in the three office buildings of ETS in Princeton and Ewing, New Jersey.
ACE (American Capital Energy) has announced that the company is currently constructing 20% of the utility scale PV solar installations in the US. These photovoltaic power plants are expected to go online this year, in 2010.
ESPEC has teamed up with WESTPAK for developing a solar simulator. Currently, a solar simulator chamber that is meant for the purpose of photovoltaic module testing is being manufactured and developed by ESPEC for WESTPAK.
Air Products (NYSE: APD) will build a 12-acre solar farm at its corporate headquarters in Allentown, Pa., capable of generating 1.5 MW of electricity. The 1.5MW is enough to serve the energy needs of nearly half of Air Products' administration buildings. The project is expected to begin construction this fall and be onstream in the spring of 2011.
JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: JASO), a leading manufacturer of high-performance solar power products, today announced it has entered into supply agreements with Solar-Fabrik AG.
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