SOLAR

SOLAR COMPANIES

Public Companies

"Pure" Plays

• Astropower NasdaqNM:APWR yahoo
• EnviroMission owns the exclusive licence to German designed Solar Tower technology in Australia. Australian Stock Exchange yahoo
• Evergreen Solar PV cells NASDAQ:ELSR yahoo bigcharts

Subsidiaries/Joint Ventures

• BP "BP Solar manufactures, designs, markets, and installs a wide range of crystalline silicon and new generation thin film solar electric products and systems."
  • "Our History"
• Energy Conversion Devices nasdaq:ENER yahoo
  • UNI-SOLAR strategic alliance between ECD & Bekaert
• Kyocera Solar, Inc. wholly-owned subsidiary of Kyocera International Inc., NYSE: KYO
• SHARP "the world's #1 manufacturer of solar cells" sharp-usa.com
  • 5/1/02 Sharp Electronics Corporation establishes solar systems division
  • "From Outer Space into the Home - Sharp's Solar Power Technology Helps Achieve a Brighter Future"
• Shell Solar "Shell Solar is part of Shell Renewables, one of the five core businesses of Shell Group"
  • 4/2202 Shell completes acquisition of solar energy joint venture from Siemens

Penny Stocks (under $2)

• Solar Energy Limited OTCBB:SLRE yahoo
• Spire Corporation (NASDAQ:SPIR) develops, manufactures and markets highly-engineered photovoltaic module manufacturing equipment, and provides advanced surface treatments for the biomedical industry.

Private Companies

• Solar Century is a solar PV solutions business. We design, install and maintain tailor-made solar PV systems for businesses, homes, industry and the public sector. UK.
• Solarflex technologies
• TerraSolar Inc. develops, manufactures and markets solar power products for distributed residential, commercial, and industrial markets.
• ICP Global Technologies complete line of solar powered battery maintainers and chargers

Manufacturing eqiuipment

• ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc.
• GT Solar

Solar Systems

• Sierra Solar Systems a Full Service Renewable Energy Outfitter
• Solar Century UK
• Solar Depot is BP Solar’s largest distributor in the U.S.
• Solar Electric Light Company (SELCO) a leading provider of wireless solarelectric power systems for people in the developing world without access to a reliable electricity supply

TECHNOLOGIES

• PV
  • PV TECHNOLOGIES pvpower.com
  • How Solar Works ICP Global, DOE video
• Thermal
  • National Solar Thermal Test Facility
  • U.S. Department of Energy Concentrating Solar Program
• Integration into buildings
  • Solar Design Associates
• Solar Tower
  • EnviroMission owns the exclusive licence to German designed Solar Tower technology in Australia.
  • Wentworth Shire Council info page from local govt entity

ASSOCIATIONS/TRADE GROUPS

• American Solar Energy Society a national organization dedicated to advancing the use of solar energy for the benefit of U.S. citizens and the global environment
• California Solar Energy Industries Association
• Solar Electric Power Association a collaboration of utilities, energy service providers and the photovoltaic industry working together to create and encourage commercial use of new solar electric power business models

SOLAR LINKS

• SolarAccess.com
• Solar Cell Manufacturers solarbuzz.com
• California Energy Commission: Solar Energy
• Eden Hills
• Million Solar Roofs
• PV Power Resource Site a site for the coordination and dissemination of information of global photovoltaic (PV) technologies, applications, history, and resources
• SolarAccess.com
• solarenergy.com