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Company installing solar panels, car-charging station for Sun City
May 21, 2015, 5:20am PDT
Mark Anderson
Sacramento Business Journal
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/blog/energy-inc/2015/05/company-installing-solar-panels-car-charging.html
Roseville’s Sunworks has won a $3 million contract to install a 1 megawatt photovoltaic array for the Sun City Lincoln Hills Community Association.
Sunworks will find the financing and design and install nearly 3,000 solar panels and a car charging station for the association, which has 6,703 homes. The contract was signed Wednesday.
The project will be installed by December, with solar carports and shade structures over the parking for the community’s clubhouse and lodge. The project is estimated to save $9.5 million in electricity costs over its 25-year life.
The installation will include Sunworks equipment, and the company has offered residents a $2,000 discount to put solar on their own homes.
Last fall, Sunworks tripled its office space in Roseville when it moved into about 19,000 square feet of office and warehouse space at 1010 Winding Creek Drive.
The company designs, finances and installs solar photovoltaic systems for residential, commercial and farms.
In January, Sunworks won contracts to design and install solar photovoltaic projects for two California agricultural companies, including a 504 kilowatt array at Heidrick & Heidrick Properties in Woodland and an 893 kilowatt photovoltaic array at Innovative Produce Inc. in Santa Maria.
Sunworks is the commercial solar division of Solar3D Inc. (Nasdaq: SLTD), which is based in Santa Barbara.
Solar3D bought Sunworks in a deal that closed in the spring of 2014. Solar3D is working on new technology for the advancement of photovoltaic panels. The Sunworks division is focused on sales, installation and marketing of solar systems. Solar3D is developing solar technology and buying up smaller solar companies.
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Solar3D to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences
Marketwired
2015 Marcum MicroCap Conference Held May 27th - 28th in NYC; 5th Annual LD Micro Invitational Held June 1st - 3rd in Los Angeles
May 20, 2015: 10:00 AM ET
Solar3D, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLTD), a provider of solar power solutions and the developer of a proprietary high efficiency solar cell, announced today that it will be presenting at the 2015 Marcum MicroCap Conference in New York and the 5th Annual LD Micro Invitational in Los Angeles. In addition, the Company previously announced that it will also be presenting at the Cowen Group 43rd Annual Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Thursday May 28th in New York.
Jim Nelson, CEO of Solar 3D will provide an overview of the Company's business operations, recent updates and highlights. Mr. Nelson will also be available for one-on-one meetings.
To arrange a one-on-one meeting with management, please contact Andrew Haag at sltd@irthcommunications.com or 1-866-976-4784.
About Solar3D, Inc.
Solar3D, a leading provider of solar power solutions, is focused on the design, installation and management of solar power systems for commercial, agricultural and residential customers. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Solar3D is one of the fastest growing solar systems providers in California delivering 2.5 kilowatt to multi-megawatt commercial systems. Solar3D's technology division is developing a patent-pending 3-dimensional solar cell technology to maximize the conversion of sunlight into electricity. The Solar3D Cell collects sunlight from a wide angle and lets light bounce around in 3-dimensional microstructures on the solar cell surface. The Company's mission is to further the widespread adoption of solar power by deploying affordable, state-of-the-art systems and developing breakthrough new solar technologies.
To learn more about Solar3D, visit our website at http://www.Solar3D.com.
Safe Harbor StatementMatters discussed in this press release contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "may," "intend," "expect" and similar expressions identify such forward-looking statements. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. These forward-looking statements are based largely on the expectations of the Company and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. These risks include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties associated with: the impact of economic, competitive and other factors affecting the Company and its operations, markets, products, and prospects for sales, failure to commercialize our technology, failure of technology to perform as expected, failure to earn profit or revenue, higher costs than expected, persistent operating losses, ownership dilution, inability to repay debt, failure of acquired businesses to perform as expected, the impact on the national and local economies resulting from terrorist actions, and U.S. actions subsequently; and other factors detailed in reports filed by the Company.
Just throwing some wild PPS prediction without timeline and backing up with realistic assumptions is counter productive imho
the benchmark SPs' you mentioned-.02,.05,.50
I don't guarantee it, unlike the Men's Warehouse guysmile
When is this scheduled to go to .02?
And .05...
And .50...
Graphene is very expensive to manufacture. Best use would be cellphones or other small devices. It costs a lot to make a few square inches of it. Solar panels require many square feet. Maybe sometime in the distant future it will be feasible.
Flipped the top 13% of SLTD for CABN this morning. NOW we can move!
I want some MONEY!
Blekko, I thought you said last week it will decay to .006 and one can average down!
Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m every minute, says IMF
Shocking’ revelation finds $5.3tn subsidy estimate for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/fossil-fuel-companies-getting-10m-a-minute-in-subsidies-says-imf
Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn (£3.4tn) a year, equivalent to $10m every minute of every day, according to a startling new estimate by the International Monetary Fund.
The IMF calls the revelation “shocking” and says the figure is an “extremely robust” estimate of the true cost of fossil fuels. The $5.3tn subsidy estimated for 2015 is greater than the total health spending of all the world’s governments.
The vast sum is largely due to polluters not paying the costs imposed on governments by the burning of coal, oil and gas. These include the harm caused to local populations by air pollution as well as to people across the globe affected by the floods, droughts and storms being driven by climate change.
US taxpayers subsidising world's biggest fossil fuel companies
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Lord Nicholas Stern, an eminent climate economist at the London School of Economics, said: “This very important analysis shatters the myth that fossil fuels are cheap by showing just how huge their real costs are. There is no justification for these enormous subsidies for fossil fuels, which distort markets and damages economies, particularly in poorer countries.
Stern said that even the IMF’s vast subsidy figure was a significant underestimate: “A more complete estimate of the costs due to climate change would show the implicit subsidies for fossil fuels are much bigger even than this report suggests.”
The IMF, one of the world’s most respected financial institutions, said that ending the subsidies to fossil fuels would cut global carbon emissions by 20%. That would be a giant step towards taming global warming, an issue on which the world has made little progress to date.
Ending the subsidies would also slash the number of premature deaths from outdoor air pollution by 50% – about 1.6m lives a year.
Furthermore, the IMF said the resources freed by ending fossil fuel subsidies could be an economic “game changer” for many countries, by driving economic growth and poverty reduction through greater investment in infrastructure, health and education and also by cutting taxes that restrict growth.
Another consequence would be that the need for subsidies for renewable energy – a relatively tiny $120bn a year – would also disappear, if fossil fuel prices reflected the full cost of their impacts.
These [fossil fuel subsidy] estimates are shocking,” said Vitor Gaspar, the IMF’s head of fiscal affairs and former finance minister of Portugal. “Energy prices remain woefully below levels that reflect their true costs.”
“When the [$5.3tn] number came out at first, we thought we had better double check this!” said David Coady, who heads the IMF’s fiscal affairs department. But the broad picture of huge global subsidies was “extremely robust”, he said. “It is the true cost associated with fossil fuel subsidies.”
The IMF estimate of $5.3tn in fossil fuel subsidies represents 6.5% of global GDP. Just over half the figure is the money governments are forced to spend treating the victims of air pollution and the income lost because of ill health and premature deaths. The figure is higher than a 2013 IMF estimate because new data from the World Health Organisation shows the harm caused by air pollution to be much higher than thought.
Coal is the dirtiest fuel in terms of both local air pollution and climate-warming carbon emissions and is therefore the greatest beneficiary of the subsidies, with just over half the total. Oil, heavily used in transport, gets about a third of the subsidy and gas the rest.
The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, hosts $2.3tn of the annual subsidies. The next biggest fossil fuel subsidies are in the US ($700bn), Russia ($335bn), India ($277bn) and Japan ($157bn), with the European Union collectively allowing $330bn in subsidies to fossil fuels.
The costs resulting from the climate change driven by fossil fuel emissions account for subsidies of $1.27tn a year, about a quarter, of the IMF’s total. The IMF calculated this cost using an official US government estimate of $42 per tonne of CO2 (in 2015 dollars), a price “very likely to underestimate” the true cost, according to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The direct subsidising of fuel for consumers, by government discounts on diesel and other fuels, account for just 6% of the IMF’s total. Other local factors, such as reduced sales taxes on fossil fuels and the cost of traffic congestion and accidents, make up the rest. The IMF says traffic costs are included because increased fuel prices would be the most direct way to reduce them.
Christiana Figueres, the UN’s climate change chief charged with delivering a deal to tackle global warming at a crunch summit in December, said: “The IMF provides five trillion reasons for acting on fossil fuel subsidies. Protecting the poor and the vulnerable is crucial to the phasing down of these subsidies, but the multiple economic, social and environmental benefits are long and legion.”
US president Barack Obama and the G20 nations called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies in 2009, but little progress had been made until oil prices fell in 2014. In April, the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, told the Guardian it was crazy that governments were still driving the use of coal, oil and gas by providing subsidies. “We need to get rid of fossil fuel subsidies now,” he said.
Reform of the subsidies would increase energy costs but Kim and the IMF both noted that existing fossil fuel subsidies overwhelmingly go to the rich, with the wealthiest 20% of people getting six times as much as the poorest 20% in low and middle-income countries. Gaspar said that with oil and coal prices currently low, there is a “golden opportunity” to phase out subsidies and use the increased tax revenues to reduce poverty through investment and to provide better targeted support.
Subsidy reforms are beginning in dozens of countries including Egypt, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco and Thailand. In India, subsidies for diesel ended in October 2014. “People said it would not be possible to do that,” noted Coady. Coal use has also begun to fall in China for the first time this century.
On renewable energy, Coady said: “If we get the pricing of fossil fuels right, the argument for subsidies for renewable energy will disappear. Renewable energy would all of a sudden become a much more attractive option.”
Shelagh Whitley, a subsidies expert at the Overseas Development Institute, said: “The IMF report is yet another reminder that governments around the world are propping up a century-old energy model. Compounding the issue, our research shows that many of the energy subsidies highlighted by the IMF go toward finding new reserves of oil, gas and coal, which we know must be left in the ground if we are to avoid catastrophic, irreversible climate change.”
Developing the international cooperation needed to tackle climate change has proved challenging but a key message from the IMF’s work, according to Gaspar, is that each nation will directly benefit from tackling its own fossil fuel subsidies. “The icing on the cake is that the benefits from subsidy reform – for example, from reduced pollution – would overwhelmingly accrue to local populations,” he said.
“By acting local, and in their own best interest, [nations] can contribute significantly to the solution of a global challenge,” said Gaspar. “The path forward is clear: act local, solve global.”
Australian households chase sun to lead world on solar adoption
Date May 16, 2015 - 2:51PM
Mark Sawa
Northside Chronicle reporter
Almost 15 per cent of Australian households use photovoltaic panels to power their homes.
John Grimes from the Australian Solar Energy Society says the economics of choosing solar energy are compelling. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
"People like the Energy Supply Association and others should rightly be thinking about this. If they don't start to embrace the technology as opposed to resist it, their members companies – the big utilities – are set to become the Kodaks of the future."
Solar Energy Ladder Can Help Communities Climb Out Of Energy Poverty
May 15th, 2015 by Rocky Mountain Institute
Originally published on RMI Outlet.
By Laurie Guevara-?Stone
Access to electricity is crucial for sustainable economic development. Yet 1.3 billion people around the world live without basic access to electricity. Many of these people rely on unhealthy polluting kerosene lamps for nighttime lighting. Those with access to electricity in the developing world often rely on coal- or diesel-based grid power. Thus electrification is both a humanitarian issue and a climate issue. Access to electricity improves health, education, economic development, and overall quality of life. But electrifying populations by expanding an already dirty and unreliable grid would greatly increase carbon emissions—increasing carbon emissions by an estimated 141 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa and India by 2040 under business as usual.
That’s the current energy ladder. It’s not only far too great a leap for the unelectrified to reach the other end, but the world can’t afford for them to reach the other end by burning more fossil fuels. And although many people are forecast to gain electricity access in the next 20 years in the developing world, population growth in those regions will offset almost all of it. “The system today to provide power to the rural poor across the developing world isn’t working,” says RMI manager Roy Torbert. “We are on track to have as many people in 2030 without access to power as we do today. A new approach is needed.”
Thus the crucial need for solar energy. Decentralized solar energy provides clean, reliable, low-carbon electricity, and can power communities both large and small. A new solar-based energy ladder, with each rung in reach of the next, can enable families and communities to climb out of energy poverty to energy access, thereby supporting economic development and eventually halting coal’s expansion. It would start with solar lanterns, move to solar home systems, then to mini grids, and eventually community-scale microgrids. It’s here, with community-scale microgrids, that you enable real commerce—with sewing machines, wood lathes, and other productive uses beyond the capacity of solar lanterns and solar home systems.
THE BOTTOM RUNGS
Over 250 million households use kerosene for lighting. This has devastating consequences for the women and children who breathe kerosene fumes daily—equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. Fortunately, many entrepreneurs around the world have achieved impressive success with solar lanterns, which provide better-quality light than kerosene lanterns without any harmful fumes. d.light, a company that manufactures affordable and rugged solar lanterns, has sold over nine million solar lights in 62 countries since its founding in 2006.
Fifty Lanterns is a nonprofit organization providing solar lanterns to people in communities torn by poverty, war, or disaster. Its current program is working with a group of 7,000 Ugandan grandmothers who lost their children to AIDS and are now caring for their orphaned grandchildren. “For only $50 we can provide a grandmother with life-changing solar light that will help prevent open flame burns and toxic fumes,” says Fifty Lanterns executive director Linda Cullen.
Other organizations focus on small solar home systems. These systems, anywhere from 10 to 100 watts, allow people to light their homes, recharge cell phones, and run a small appliance or two. These systems have proven to be affordable with financing, even to people earning under $2 per day. Yet this is where the current solar ladder breaks down. While it is important to start small for affordability, there needs to be a way to grow. Being able to add solar panels modularly and having standardized solutions to create interoperability between systems will create the ability to transition from solar home systems to solar mini grids or microgrids.
THE TOP RUNGS
Modular solar mini grids are exactly what Devergy, a Dutch company working in Africa, has deployed in several villages in Tanzania. These mini grids power households and small businesses in six villages, connecting 800 customers to clean, reliable solar power. “After seeing many unmaintained solar home systems traveling through South America, we realized we needed to create a system that is interactive,” says Gianluca Cescon, cofounder Devergy. “Through smart meters we can monitor what’s going on.” Devergy decided it could have a greater impact by linking many solar home systems together, and after many prototypes came out with the mini grid it uses in Tanzania today.
“Using a modular system, designed to be interoperable and durable, communities can tailor their power supply to their individual needs, and grow their solar and battery systems according to the most relevant demands,” says RMI’s Torbert. Bridging into even larger, community-scale microgrids will enable development that supports quality of life and countries’ economic aspirations, and halt coal’s expansion into these to-be-electrified parts of the world. “We need to bridge the gap between household or small business use and more energy-intensive productive uses such as rice milling and corn milling,” according to Devergy’s Cescon.
The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) has also moved towards community-scale microgrids. “SELF spent years installing solar home systems in countries around the world. And it really helped change the lives of thousands,” says Bob Freling, executive director of the Solar Electric Light Fund. “But if we want to get to the next level of increased economic opportunity, we need to look beyond solar home systems to larger community scale microgrids.” SELF’s first two solar microgrids will power a microenterprise center in Haiti, and a school, health clinic, and micro-enterprise facilities in Colombia. By powering larger facilities and more energy-intensive businesses, solar microgrids allow individuals, businesses, and entire communities to develop and thrive.
Though all these projects are successful at various scales in areas around the world, each rung of the solar energy ladder—from lanterns to microgrids—needs to scale faster and broader, to meet the colossal need. Yet this brings with it new challenges and complications, including infrastructure challenges, local tariffs and regulation, and inconsistent product quality and reliability. “There has not been a lot of attention to detail in terms of the quality of services provided,” says Charles Muchunku, chairman of the Kenya Renewable Energy Association. “This leads a lot of people to believe that solar doesn’t work.” One crucial step is a standardized design, which will both increase modularity and lower cost. “A low-cost, standardized solution does not fix every problem, but it does create a base from which individual communities can build,” says Torbert.
A large-scale procurement process will further drive down costs and reduce supply chain inefficiencies. This will ensure time to market is fast and reliability is high. Also key are innovative financing solutions that work for both developed-country investors and the rural poor. While many microfinancing and payment mechanisms currently exist, these solutions need to be greatly scaled. Finally, we need deployment solutions that can scale rapidly with existing infrastructure.
Once these barriers are addressed, people on the bottom end of the energy ladder will have access to a full suite of energy services, while avoiding the negative consequences of fossil fuel development. “Economic development in developed countries brought a centralized government approach to rural electrification,” according to Stephen Doig, a managing director at RMI. “Yet, much as mobile telecommunications leapfrogged landlines, solar energy presents a way for developing countries to choose a different path.” We must build a new solar energy ladder by making it cheap, easy to finance and pay, and customizable. Then people can climb the ladder by using electrification to power economic activity and entrepreneurship. In that way we create a scalable solar energy ladder that can both help alleviate energy poverty and mitigate climate change, bringing us closer to a clean, prosperous, and secure energy future.
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