According to the Energy Saving Trust in the UK, Scottish households are capable of generating £225 million (US$385 million) worth of solar energy every year. Domestic PV systems could save individual Scottish households up to half of their annual energy needs, or an average saving of £100 ($170) a year on bills, it claims.
California-based Daystar Technologies has filed with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to go public. It was selling 1 million units for $9–11 each, with each unit made up of one share of common stock and a warrant to buy a share of common stock.
The Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University in Califorrnia has awarded four projects a total of $5.1 million to research the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier. Stanford faculty members from a range of disciplines will lead the individual research efforts, and the projects will be funded over a three-year period from January.
The first PV system at Harvard Business School, a 36.5 kW PV array, has been installed on HBS's Shad Hall campus in Boston, Massachusetts. The array comprises 192 panels, and was designed and installed by Global Resource Options (GRO) of White River Junction, Vermont.
The Fatronik Technological Centre in Germany has designed and installed a micro-wind generator for the Aubixa Euskal Girotze boarding center in Elgoibar, northern Spain. The 2.5 kW micro-wind generator has been producing energy for the boarding center's four refrigerators, control room, data-reception sensors and PCs. Four 120 kW PV plates have been incorporated into the micro-wind generator, for a hybrid system which takes maximum advantage of both renewable resources.
The Alliance to Save Energy, a Washington, DC-based coalition of business, government, environmental and consumer leaders, has honored Johnson Controls Inc in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for its contributions to the advancement of energy efficiency. The Alliance's 2003 ‘Star of Energy Efficiency’ awards were presented in November at a black-tie dinner in the atrium of the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington.
California-based Solaicx has announced a new manufacturing technology that it claims will enable the company to supply its PV cell and module manufacturer customers with the material to create solar cells with high conversion efficiency at very low cost and on a very large scale.
As we continue our look at the materials which are making a contribution to the development of photovoltaics, it is timely that we turn our consideration to solders. While these materials are not in themselves photovoltaic, they serve the important role of interconnections and to some extent mechanical linkages. Great changes are in prospect for this humble family of materials, as a result of the need to meet new regulations regarding reduced lead content. ‘Lead-free’ has become a buzzword in the greater electronics manufacturing business, and looks set to bring significant changes to the PV industry.
ExxonMobil, one of the world's leading oil companies, has issued its annual outlook of economic growth and energy demand, in which it anticipates solar and wind providing less than one-half of a percent of global energy by 2020.
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