Australia

Milton Headquarters August

SKYShades International is delighted to announce the opening of three new offices.

Revamp website. Launched mid August.

SKYShades today delivered panels to a firm of electrical engineers who will continue the development of the SKYShades rural isolated water pumping power supply.
This is in response to a design request and delivery for this application by an Authorised Distrtibutor.

Konarka has delivered the first 98 panels for umbrella applications and product development and field testing.
The panels are 'pre commercial production' models and sizes.

SKYShades Australia today, in a strategic alliance with SKYSpan, released a prototype of its Solar Plastic Powered umbrella.

Konarka Opens World’s Largest Roll-to-Roll Thin Film Solar Manufacturing Facility with One Gigawatt Nameplate Capacity

Much field-testing has taken place since February'08 both in Orlando, Fl where SKYShades officials have been perfecting the 'bonding system' to ensure that the electricity-generating panels are protected from the elements etc., and in Lowell Mass., where Konarka’s officials have been connecting and measuring the electrical components.

It was reported earlier that SKYShades has programmed to install car park structures with Power Plastic panels over 1000 cars at the Orlando International Airport. Prior to gaining the necessary County approvals, there have been requests for SKYShades to build a 'sample' number of these structures to carry out testing of electricity reticulation and to ensure that all safety measures have been conformed with.

First Solar Inc (FSLR.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) has been a relative bright spot in the industry. Shares of the thin film solar maker, which were trading at $275.25 on Thursday, were up 92 percent from their 2008 low of $143.31, hit in January, and had declined less than 1 percent in the last three weeks.

It's fair to say that, so far, solar installers have been the red-headed stepchild of the renewable energy investment world.

Their counterparts, module manufacturers and silicon suppliers, have been in a noticeably different boat. And rightly so.

Labelled a "green gold rush," global investment in renewable energy surged some 60 per cent to $148 billion in 2007.

Global investment in renewable energy surged 60 per cent to $148 billion (74.3 billion) last year and is still accelerating despite the slowdown in the wider economy, according to the United Nations.

SSA today launched a redesigned and more powerful SOLARBrella.

SKYShades has won the prestigious Design Excellence Award in the 2007 Orange County Urban Design Commission Awards Program. SKYShades took home the Award of Merit in the Commercial Projects Section with its uniquely designed Shade Structure at Images Auto Spa.