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Sharp and San Francisco Giants Partner to Promote Solar Energy

Sharp Electronics Corporation and the San Francisco Giants Baseball Club announced Sharp’s sponsorship of Major League Baseball will promote solar power as an energy alternative. The sponsorship begins with the 2005 season and will include prominent signage and a permanent solar demonstration at SBC Park. Sharp Electronics is the U.S. subsidiary of Sharp Corporation, Osaka, Japan, the world’s leading producer of solar energy and the U.S. market leader. Sharp sponsors more than two dozen professional sports teams in the U.S., and the Giants partnership is the first promoting solar energy. It is believed the agreement also represents a first in both the solar and sports industries. Complementing a highly visible Sharp Solar sign in left-center field, Sharp will install a 4.5Kw solar energy system on the roof adjacent to the Giants offices at SBC Park. The system will consist of 27 167-watt Sharp solar modules and is typical of the kind of system used on a standard California residence. The system will transfer energy directly into the ballpark’s electrical grid. The system’s electrical output will be monitored by a multi-media kiosk located in the leftfield concourse. Utilizing a touch-screen display, fans can access information about the system, learn how solar […]

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Exxon May Face More Heat On Global Warming

by Jeffrey Ball, March 28, 2005 Overruling objections from Exxon Mobil Corp., Securities and Exchange Commission officials said investor activists can ask Exxon shareholders to vote on two resolutions demanding that the oil giant disclose more information about its stance on global warming. One of the resolutions SEC officials cleared to appear on Exxon’s proxy asks the world’s largest publicly traded oil company in terms of market value to report how it plans to reduce its emissions enough to comply with the Kyoto Protocol at Exxon facilities in countries where the treaty applies. The other resolution cleared by SEC staff asks Exxon to disclose the research data behind the company’s “stated position on the science” about global warming. The SEC staff’s decisions show how prickly an issue global warming is becoming for the oil industry. Earlier this month ChevronTexaco Corp. and several smaller U.S. oil companies that faced similar global-warming-related shareholder resolutions got shareholders to withdraw those measures after the companies agreed to take more action on the environmental issue. Exxon has emerged as a lightning rod in the global-warming debate. It calls the science behind concerns about man-made global-warming emissions “inconclusive,” though it adds that the effects of those […]

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