Tag Archives: rights
Cananda Now Has Bragging Rights to World’s Largest Solar Facility
Clearly eclipsing the 60 MW Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park in Spain with a more quantifiable solar power generation capacity, the Sarnia Solar facility in Ontario has now become the world’s largest solar photovoltaic facility. Officially completed last month, the facility is now generating 80 MW of electricity. Being a joint endeavor of Enbridge Energy and First [...]
Entech Solar announces commencement of rights offering
Entech Solar Inc. announced the commencement of the previously announced offering of subscription rights to acquire an aggregate of up to37,500,000 shares of Entech’s common stock. Entech’s registrationstatement on Form S-1 related to the rights offering was declaredeffective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 5, 2010. Under the terms of the rights offering [...]
GoSolarUSA to acquire exclusive worldwide rights to new solar furnace technology
GoSolarUSA Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire the exclusiveworldwide rights to a new, patent pending, solar heating technology. The company believes this new technology could revolutionize the solarindustry by providing a practical method of delivering forced air heatto homes in cold climates using solar energy. Forced air heatingsystems are used in 35 Million [...]
Understanding Your Solar Access Rights
If you’re thinking about solar butyou’re not sure if your community will allow you to put it up, youshould first get to know your solar rights for the individual state youlive. Your solar installer or contractor should be able to help younavigate through this process, although in many cases you may need anattorney. Solar electric [...]
The Solar Rights Act of 1978 in Practice
There are a lot of folks in California whose homes (and allimprovements done to them) fall under the jurisdiction of a Home Owner’s Association (HOA). If you live in an HOA this shouldn’t benews to you. In fact you may have already gone through the process ofgathering neighbor sign offs on your proposed home improvement [...]
Sign On to the Solar Bill of Rights
In 2009 at Solar Power International, the largest solarconference and expo in North America, Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) President Rhone Resch unveiled the solar bill of rights. Among the manifesto’seight points are provisions promoting the solar industry’s right todevelop solar on public lands, and the consumer’s right to becompensated for the power generated by their solar panels [...]
SEIA Presents 15% By 2020 Plan, Solar Bill Of Rights At #cop15
Leaders representing the U.S. solar energy industry reportedthe potential of solar energy to meet 15% of U.S. energy needs by 2020.The presentation was made at a United Nations Framework Convention onClimate Change press briefing in the Bella Center, where the UnitedNations Climate Conference (COP15) is under way. The "ExpandingSolar Energy in the United States" briefing [...]
A Solar Bill of Rights
When I heard about a new solar bill unveiled yesterday at the SolarPower International convention, my first thoughts were: Who’s thesponsor and what committee will hold the hearings? The answer to thefirst question is: Rhone Resch. That caught me by surprise. I know Mr.Resch only as the head a solar trade group, the Solar Energy [...]
A Solar Bill Of Rights
Yesterday afternoon at the Solar Power International Conference, Solar Energy Industries Association CEO Rhone Resch, announced a Solar Bill of Rights. I thought it was exceptional, so I decided to pass it along to you today. Here’s what Resch delivered. . . "We declare these rights not on behalf of our companies, but onbehalf of [...]
Equity Solar Launches, Plans To Secure Patent Rights
Equity Solar Inc., a San Francisco-based company specifically established to commercialize a solar photovoltaic technology, has officially formed. The company says it has identified a groundbreaking technology that is implemented in the cell manufacturing process. "Weare pleased to announce that we have obtained the initial fundingrequired to secure the rights to a leading-edge patented solar [...]
Canadian Solar (CSIQ) Secures Rights To 500MW Inner Mongolia Solar Development
500MW seems to be the magic number with these long term projects. Just yesterday, LDK Solar (LDK) announced a 500MW project of its own in Yancheng City and this morning Canadian Solar (CSIQ) has obtained the rightsto develop, operate and maintain a 500MW solar project in Baotou, InnerMongolia over the next several years. The project, [...]
REC To Raise $710 Million
Norwegian solar giant REC Group plans to raise NKr4.5bn ($710m) from a new rights issue, a NKr500m increase on the figure it announced last month. The price and number of shares has yet to be decided. REC says the move comes after “an overall assessment of the current financial situation”. It explains that the demand [...]