Solar Power Net Metering Doubled For New York
When home owners and business with their own solar power systems send excess electricity back to the grid, they receive credits from utility companies. These credits reduce the amount they pay on...
View Article131 MW Solar Power Plant For Georgia
Even though the state of Georgia has plenty of sunshine historically it hasn’t done that well with solar power development. Utility and state politics have been the main barrier, but apparently that...
View ArticleSan Francisco Home Energy Program To Restart
A residential energy program that supports solar power, energy saving windows and doors, insulation, heating and cooling, roofing and water conservation will be reinstated in San Francisco. Spring of...
View ArticleSolar Power In Florida Could Get A Big Boost From New Law Brought By Republicans
A petition for a 2016 ballot measure in Florida has been launched that could give a big boost for solar power in Florida. This petition is momentous because even though Florida has a great deal of...
View ArticleSolarCity Offers New Solar Power Program For El Paso & Las Cruces
SolarCity has already installed rooftop solar systems on about 4,000 homes within Fort Bliss, but now it wants to expand into the rest of El Paso, Texas, and Las Cruces, New Mexico. Fort Bliss is the...
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Merchant Solar Power Plant For Chile
An 80 MW solar power plant will be built in Chile’s Antofagasta Region beginning in the first part of 2015. The Inti project is scheduled to be completed and come online about one year later. Greenwood...
View ArticleSolar Car Documentary From Stanford
There’s been so much press about the Tesla Model S that the profile of electric cars has been raised considerably. Naysayers point out that the electricity used to charge EV batteries sometimes comes...
View Article31,000 American Solar Jobs Added In 2014
A report published Thursday by the Solar Foundation stated that 31,000 solar jobs were added to the US economy between November 2013 and November 2014. More key stats from the report include: 174,000...
View Article400 MW Of Solar Projects Approved For Idaho
Thirteen solar power projects have been approved for Idaho by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission. Combined, they have a capacity of about 400 megawatts. If 164 homes can be powered by one megawatt...
View ArticleNRG Home Solar Partners With Sallie Mae For Affordable Solar
NRG Home Solar is partnering with Sallie Mae’s Upromise to provide incentives to families that want to learn about residential solar power or who purchase an NRG home solar system. For families that...
View Article220 MW Of New Solar Power For Florida
If you have been following solar power in America, this is a huge story. Historically, the state of Florida has been something of a solar power laggard, even though it receives a great deal of sunshine...
View Article7 Million Cases Of MillerCoors Beer To Be Brewed By Solar Power
The largest solar power installation at an American Brewery has been completed. 3.2 megawatts is the capacity of the new solar power system at a MillerCoors plant in Irwindale, California. The 10,000...
View ArticleSolar Power Net Metering Doubled For New York
When home owners and business with their own solar power systems send excess electricity back to the grid, they receive credits from utility companies. These credits reduce the amount they pay on...
View Article6 Ways To Make Solar Power More Affordable For All
The George Washington University Solar Institute has launched a new paper called Bridging the Solar Income Gap. The gap refers to the fact that most low-income Americans have not acquired solar power,...
View Article$7 Million Dollar Investment In Tanzanian Solar Power
International Finance Corporation is providing a $4.5 million loan to a solar leasing company in Tanzania called Off Grid Electric for the expansion of solar power. IFC is a member of the World Bank...
View Article40% Growth In Megawatts Installed For Borrego Solar
Borrego Solar Systems experienced 40% growth in megawatts of solar installed in 2014. In fact, the amount of solar the San Diego-based company installed in 2014 was 30% of the total it has built over...
View Article73 MW Solar Project To Be Built By Former Gang Members
Homeboy Industries, a training program for former gang members, will provide labor for the Redwood Solar Farms project in California. Homeboy helps train former gang members in construction to gain...
View ArticleSolar Power Technology Approved: Reduces Installation Costs 30-50%
A gable roof solar system that can be installed without penetrating a roof has passed wind testing as required by ASCE codes (American Society of Civil Engineers). Called SolarPod Crown, it uses...
View ArticleSolar Industry Growing In 7 US States
We might expect to hear that the solar power industry is doing well in California and it is, but the latest news is that it is growing in other states as well. North Carolina, Maryland, Massachusetts,...
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Merchant Solar Power Plant For Chile
An 80 MW solar power plant will be built in Chile’s Antofagasta Region beginning in the first part of 2015. The Inti project is scheduled to be completed and come online about one year later. Greenwood...
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