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These people need an award or something. How cool is Shea homes? So cool that if you buy one of their homes in California, Arizona, Florida and Washington, they will give you a free solar roof.
Seems like a creative and innovative way to boost the solar market. Hopefully they can find buyers that can get mortgages.
In another interesting solar development, Tokyo-based Sanyo Electric Co Ltd reported Monday that it has completed construction of the Shiga Plant at its Shiga facilities in Ohtsu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, which was constructed for the assembly of HIT solar cell modules as part of the company’s plans to expand its solar business, in order to be ready for the expected growth in Japan for solar modules.
Sanyo’s Shiga Plant will have an initial production capacity of 40 MW, and SANYO will consider expanding the production capacity of the factory upon further review of market trends and demand.
Sanyo currently produces HIT solar cells at two factories, at its Nishikinohama Factory in Kaizuka City, Osaka and at Shimane Sanyo Electric Co in Unnan City, Shimane Prefecture. The modules are then assembled at two domestic facilities and two overseas facilities in Hungary and Monterrey, Mexico.
With this new facility, Sanyo will have solar production capacity of approximately 340 megawatts by the end of this year.
--Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor