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Solar Energy News Monday December 18th 2006

Solar EnerTech Announces Beta Release of Power Conditioning Software and Applauds US Federal Solar Energy Tax Credit ...
(Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance: Mon, 18 Dec) Solar EnerTech Corp. wishes to advise that while participating at a renewable energy symposium in Beijing, Management warmly welcomed the recently passed legislation enacted by the US 109th Congress last week which is expected to significantly benefit the Company's upcoming sales and marketing efforts. The act extends the 30% solar energy investment tax credit for homeowners and businesses for ...

ITOCHU Announces Investment in Solar Energy Company NorSun
(Japan Corporate News: Mon, 18 Dec) Tokyo, Japan, Dec 18, 2006 - (JCN Newswire) - ITOCHU Corporation (TSE: 8001; ADR: ITOCY) has announced that it will invest JPY 1 billion (4% of outstanding shares after investment) in solar energy company NorSun AS (Oslo, Norway, CEO: Jon Hindar), which is planning to produce monocrystalline silicon wafers for solar cells.

Where to find policies on solar energy
(Bradenton Herald: Sun, 17 Dec) We'd really like to use solar energy or wind power on our farm, but the costs are still too high for me. Do you know of any loans that a homeowner can get to buy these systems?

Boeing Subsidiary Spectrolab Achieves Solar Efficiency Breakthrough
(SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance: Mon, 18 Dec) Richard Stuebi submits: In addition to reducing costs, a key challenge facing PV technologists is to improve the conversion efficiencies of solar cells. The greater the efficiency, the smaller the solar panel needs to be to produce a given output of energy.

China introduces solar-powered baths
(IANS via Yahoo! India News: Mon, 18 Dec) Beijing, Dec 18 (Xinhua) China has devised a cost-effective solar energy bathing scheme for its population in the countryside where statistics show that 200 million out of China's 800 million rural people bathe only once a month.

Delhi to gives subsidy of Rs 6,000 for solar heaters
(Hindustan Times: Mon, 18 Dec) The Delhi government on Monday decided to provide a subsidy of Rs 6,000 to all those who want to install Solar Water Heating System (SWHS) at their homes to replace power guzzling electric geyser. The government largesse is aimed at conserving energy and promoting renewable sources.

HECO to set up its first solar generator
(BizJournals: Mon, 18 Dec) Hawaiian Electric Co. will put up its first solar-energy power station next year atop one of its substations on Ward Avenue in Honolulu.

Explosion disrupts Taiwan solar cell material plant
(Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News: Mon, 18 Dec) TAIPEI, Dec 18 (Reuters) - An explosion at a plant operated by Taiwan's Green Energy Technology Inc. , a maker of solar cell raw materials, has left two dead, and disrupted some of the company's output, a spokesman said on Monday.

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