SolarWorld solar panels power net-zero homes in Hawaiian home land's pilot community project.

SolarWorld's high performance solar panels are powering an advance in sustainable home development in the heart of Hawaii: They are generating electric power atop 19 homes and a community centre for low-income residents of indigenous backgrounds in a nationally trailblazing pilot community development realised by the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands in Kaupuni Village on Oahu's western edge. The state of Hawaii hopes to spread the project concept, considered the nation's first LEED Platinum single-family subdivision, in developing 1,000 home statewide. SolarWorld, the largest and most experienced US manufacturer of solar technology, has provided its solar technology to the Hawaii …