Construction ramps in September and installation of more than 330000 photovoltaic modules (~20 MegaWatts AC) is slated for year end 2009.
Project completion is expected in 2010 after a winter break.
“Work on largest solar farm ramps up” by Shawn Jeffords for The Observer discusses an open house held by First Solar last week to allay community concerns about their ambitious plans. First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR) sought to rezone about 65 acres near Churchill Road from rural to industrial use in May and received Sarnia City Council approval in June.
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What is the status of the 1 MWp (MegaWatt-peak) solar farm in Luckenwalde?
Well, I bit my tongue when I saw “Nanosolar Broke Ground on 1MW Power Plant, Launched German Panel Factory” by Ucilia Wang at Greentech Media. Why? Because I knew I planned to visit my cousin near Luckenwalde the weekend before PHOTON’s 4th Photovoltaic Technology Show 2009 Europe in Munich.
Lucky for me, it appears the PHOTON article, "Nanosolar: No news from the world champion in blowing smoke," was premature or did not investigate the 1MW solar farm site with extreme care. From my mistake in visiting Frankenfelder Strasse first during
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 3:01 am | Edgar A. Gunther
Topaz Solar Farm contract with PG&E approved by the CPUC.
With “CPUC TAKES ANOTHER STEP TOWARD STATE'S RENEWABLE ENERGY GOAL WITH APPROVAL OF PG&E RENEWABLE CONTRACT”, the CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION last week approved the Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s (PG&E) Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Topaz Solar Farms LLC, a subsidiary of OptiSolar Inc. Please see Docket #: Resolution E-4221 for the approved request. PG&E Corporation
Sunday, January 18, 2009 3:14 am | Edgar A. Gunther
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Monday, April 30, 2007 4:43 am | Edgar A. Gunther
OptiSolar granted approval to build a 40MW (Megawatt) solar farm in Sarnia
In Ontario goes solar, Tyler Hamilton of the Toronto Star first broke this story. I first wrote about OptiSolar in this post, Gen 3 Solar changes name to OptiSolar.
The 40MW Sarnia solar farm is slated to occupy almost 365 hectares (about 902 acres) and will be constructed by OptiSolar, Inc. subsidiary OptiSolar Farms Canada Inc. in four (4) 10MW phases.
The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has agreed to purchase power from OptiSolar Farms Canada at
Trademark conflict with DayStar Technologies If you check the Gen 3 Solar website, as of January 1, 2007, they changed the name of their company to OptiSolar, Inc. I heard about the reason behind the name change last week from an acquaintance.
At the United States Patent and Trademark Office website, www.uspto.gov, you can find this information using the Trademark Electronic Search System (Tess). I could not link to the specific trademark pages because the sessions time out.
DayStar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:DSTI) trademarked “Gen-III” (or “GEN-III”) back on September 28, 2005. Gen 3 Solar filed for the OPTISOLAR trademark on October 6, 2006, so
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