Category Archives: Solar
Honda announced the installation of a 9 kilowatt-capacity solar power generation system at the Adachi Odai location of the Honda Cars Tokyo Chuo dealer network. The installation kicks off a project to install Honda Soltec solar power generation systems with a total capacity of 1 megawatt at Honda automobile dealership locations in Japan by March 31, 2014. Striving to realize a low carbon society, Honda has been installing solar power generation systems at Honda operations in Japan. The combined capacity of solar power generation systems installed to date has reached 3.3 megawatts, the largest in Japan among all automakers operating. Furthermore, Honda is planning to install a 2.6-megawatt Honda Soltec solar power generation system to the new Yorii Plant, which is scheduled to become operational in 2013. This will be the largest solar power generation system installed at an automobile production plant in Japan.
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Kyocera Solar today announced the launch of its highest-output solar module, the 80-cell KD 315. The new module is ideal for large-scale installations like solar-covered parking, and is now available for U.S. customers. With a 37-year history of solar innovation and cutting edge technologies, Kyocera continues to display its commitment to quality and reliability with the release of the KD 315. Designed for high output, safety and ease of installation, the UL certified KD 315 modules feature a UV stabilized, aesthetically pleasing black anodized frame; easily accessible ground points; proven junction box technology with 12 AWG PV wire to work with transformerless inverters and quality locking plug-in connectors for quick connections.
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Kyocera today announced that it has supplied a solar power generating system for the Republic of Palau international airport — the 226.8kW solar installation is the largest to be completed on the island nation located roughly 500 miles east of the Philippines. The design and implementation of the parking lot solar project was a joint collaboration between Kyocera and Wakachiku Construction, with funding from Japan.
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Sharp will be exhibiting at Eco-Products 2011, one of Japan’s largest trade shows for environment-related technologies, from December 15 through December 17, 2011 at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big Sight). Under a theme of Sharp, an eco-positive company—opening a new era in renewable energy with solar power generation, the Sharp booth will showcase the company’s cutting-edge efforts in this new era.Sharp will introduce its past, present, and future solar power efforts in a video presentation shown on a video wall composed of twelve 60-inch Sharp LCD monitors. The video tracks Sharp’s solar power business from its beginnings 52 years ago in solar cell R&D to its present-day worldwide total solutions business in the field of solar power.
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Kyocera announced that is has supplied 8,500 solar modules for a new 2-megawatt solar power plant which sits over four acres of unused farmland in north-western France. The large-scale installation is a flagship project in terms of sustainability, and the Kyocera solar modules produce an average total power output of 2,200,000-kW/hours per year of environmentally-friendly electricity — equal to the average annual energy consumption of 900 local households. The clean-energy power plant will off-set roughly 700-tons of CO2 per year.
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Tokai University Solar Car Team which used HIT 1 solar cells boasting the world’s highest level of energy conversion rate, as well as high-capacity lithium-ion batteries provided by Panasonic as part of its sponsorship agreement with the team, won the 2011 World Solar Challenge (WSC), one of the world’s largest solar car race which was held from October 16, 2011 in Australia. The Tokai Team Crossed the Finish Line as #1 at Angle Vale, Near Adelaide The WSC is a solar car race competition that starts from Darwin in the north of Australia down to Adelaide in the south, traveling a total distance of 3,021 km. The solar car ran smoothly without any trouble to finally reach the finish line at Adelaide on October 20, 2011. Team Tokai from Japan took 32 hours and 45 minutes to drive their car, Tokai Challenger2, 3021 kilometres on solar power averaging a speed of 91.54 kilometres per hour.
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AUO is one of the main sponsors of Apollo VI, a solar car created by Taiwan’s National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences. Apollo VI is covered with high-efficiency solar cells provided by AUO. The solar cells could generate more than 1200W of electricity and enable the car to reach a maximum speed of 120 km/h. Apollo VI is 4.7 meters in length, 1.8 m in width, and 1.1 m in height, and weighs around 130 kilograms without the driver and battery. The whole vehicle is covered with high-efficiency back contact monocrystalline solar cells in the area of 6 square meter sponsored by AUO. With 20W of power consumption per kilometer, the solar car could reach more than 120 km/h while the average speed is around 80 km/h.
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Kyocera and the Associated Students of San Diego State University (SDSU) announced today the completion of a 355.9 kilowatt (kW) solar photovoltaic energy system on the school’s campus, part of a student-approved plan to build a new LEED Platinum student union building. In an effort that brought together San Diego-area partners, the construction was completed by Independent Energy Solutions, of Vista, Calif., using 1,680 Kyocera KD240 solar modules produced at Kyocera’s San Diego manufacturing facility. Mounted on a carport structure on a campus parking building, Independent Energy Solutions designed the system to resist wind uplift and to mitigate seismic concerns, providing added assurance for long-term efficiency and adaptability. The utility-tied system has an expected yearly power production of 583,267 kilowatt hours (kWh) — enough energy to power almost 100 area homes each year.
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