Roof Contractor and Design: Solar Roofing

Roof Contractor and Design: Solar Roofing

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today the start-up of a 588,000 Watt, roof-mounted photovoltaic solar power system at its Alcoa Building and Construction Systems' Kawneer manufacturing facility in Visalia, California. The project serves to demonstrate the environmental and financial merits of harnessing energy from the sun to generate electricity on an industrial scale.

Alcoa partnered on the project with DEERS, a global solar power project developer and owner of the DEERS Solution, the patent pending solar roof top attachment system, and Constellation Energy Projects & Services (CEPS), which constructed and will own and operate the solar system. Alcoa agreed to host the new solar power system and purchase the electricity generated.

"This solar power project increases California's supply of clean and reliable renewable energy," said David Schlendorf, president, Alcoa Building and Construction Systems. "Alcoa is committed to implementing sustainable energy solutions and is dedicated to pursuing alternative energy supply options that benefit our key stakeholders - including our employees, communities, customers and suppliers."

Open Energy Signs Marketing and Distribution Agreement With Eagle Roofing Products

Roofing: Building-integrated photovoltaic solar solutions

Open Energy Corp. (OTCBB: OEGY) announced a Joint Marketing and Distribution Agreement with Eagle Roofing Products (Eagle), one of the nation's largest manufacturers of concrete roof tiles. The two companies will work together to supply the rapidly growing market for building-integrated photovoltaic solar solutions. The goal of the joint approach of the companies is to train and equip professional roofers as installers of Open Energy's photovoltaic systems.

The two companies collaborated on the development of solar tiles which match the colors of Eagle's three most popular concrete tiles: slate grey, terracotta red, and earthen brown. Additionally, Open Energy and Eagle Roofing have jointly filed for patents on transitional tiles that will interface their flat solar tiles with the Capistrano (curved "S" or barrel) tiles used by many homebuilders. Under the terms of the agreement, Eagle will produce these transitional concrete tiles in their manufacturing plants.

See the press release for more information.