Category: Industry News

Carmanah Profile Update on VENTURE, CBC Television

CBC's "VENTURE" is an award-winning Canadian national television program that takes viewers inside the dramatic world of business and enterprise. The program is the original "reality show", following entrepreneurs as they try to realize their dreams. On March 27, 2001, Carmanah was originally profiled on VENTURE.

Orion’s Solar Bollards Virtually Maintenance Free

Orion Solar Solutions solar-powered lights have virtually no maintenance and no running costs. Orion's bollards are ideally suited to areas where pedestrian walkways require illumination at night, thus increasing security and safety. Redland Shire Council recently installed a total of 10 of Orion's self contained solar powered bollards to illuminate a pathway through a park. Each bollard contained a Carmanah 601 solar LED light which has been field proven in rugged marine and military environments.

Lighting Innovator Honoured

David Green - the founder and chairman of Carmanah Technologies of Victoria, a company whose solar power and LED lighting systems illuminate more than 110 countries - has been named Canada's Exporter of the Year for 2005. Carmanah also won the Innovation Award. Global Thermoelectric Inc.

Starshine Solution to B.C. Energy Needs

Even in a rain forest, harnessing the power of the sun makes sense

TxDOT Installs Carmanah’s LED Edge-lit Internally Illuminated Street-Name Signs

Carmanah's Roadway Division has received an order to provide the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) with two units of its UL-listed, industry-leading R409 LED illuminated street-name signs to be installed at a state-owned signalized intersection in NE Texas. TxDot is responsible for transportation safety of all people and goods for the State of Texas.

US Air Force Orders 200 Carmanah LED Solar-Powered Taxiway Lights

Carmanah has received an order from the US Air Force (USAF) for 200 of its Model A601 solar-powered LED taxiway lights with optional deactivation switches. These lights will be installed at a Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan that already uses more than 1000 units of Carmanah's solar LED portable airfield lights.

Power to the Piccolos

Thanks to an innovative project, North America's first green symphony could be playing here soon.

Lessons from the Boom Years: Datacomm and Electricity – Not that Far Apart…

As a transplant from the data communications industry, I'm often asked how that experience relates to the renewable electricity industry. In truth the similarities between the two industries are greater than the differences. From a technical standpoint, the story of the data communications market of the 90's was fundamentally about a shift from highly centralized systems, to highly distributed systems; from fundamentally "dumb" telecommunications networks, to highly intelligent, adaptive "smart" data networks; from small, inefficient private company structures, to large, heavily leveraged, capital intensive corporate entities. Behind all these changes were two key enabling technologies, namely cheap computers and cheap hard drives - devices which effectively acted as the Internet equivalent of small distributed generation and storage systems.

Carmanah’s Sales Boom, But Costs Cut into Profits for Lighting Systems Maker

Sales of its energy-efficient products jumped 144 per cent, but the increase in profit for Victoria's Carmanah Technologies Corp. (TSX:CMH) was a relatively small 15 per cent. The manufacturer of solar-powered equipment, LED lighting systems and signage saw sales of $38.7 million for the year ending December 31, 2005.

Ballard has Lots of Company

The sound you heard during George W. Bush's state of the union address in January was Greenpeace activists everywhere falling off their chairs. The former Texas oil man, a lighting rod for criticism about the United States' energy policy and its plans to drill for crude in the Arctic, gave a big thumbs up to alternative energy with nary a mention of oil and gas exploration.