GE Energy Unveils Brilliance™ All-In-One Residential Solar System Package
GE Energy unveiled its new Brilliance™ residential solar energy system, allowing homebuilders to purchase the required components in one, all-inclusive package. The new product line integrates the individual system components for reliability and performance and eliminates the added expense and time needed to purchase these components from different suppliers. As part of the Brilliance system, GE Energy also introduced a new 66w, roof-integrated solar module for new home construction. This product replaces GE's 55w module and has further raised the industry's standards of performance and aesthetics for residential solar applications.
The arrival of GE's Brilliance system with its new 66w module comes as demand for residential solar energy systems is quickly growing, driven by a renewed commitment to the state of California's renewable energy production incentives and the 2005 Energy Policy Act. With solar energy rapidly gaining acceptance among utility operators and consumers, homebuilders and owners are seeking even more powerful and cost-efficient equipment that also is easier and less time consuming to install. Improved technology now allows GE Energy to offer the same size roof-integrated modules but with 20% fewer modules, further reducing installation time and cost.
Designed for residential applications, GE's all-inclusive Brilliance solar electric packages are offered in sizes from 1 to 10kW. The new system features GE's roof-integrated solar modules, in the new 66w power for new home construction applications or in the high-power, 200w GE solar module for retrofit applications.
The continuing advancement of solar technology is a key element of GE ecomagination, a GE commitment to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges. Launched in May of last year, ecomagination is at the forefront of the company's business initiatives. Under ecomagination, GE will invest $1.5 billion annually in research in cleaner technologies by 2010, up from $700 million in 2004.
