Rise & Shine: November 4, 2008

The Rise & Shine is your daily source for all solar-industry news. Brought to you by Sweet Solar Home and the Experts at SunRun. CALIFORNIA NEWS Are Dirty Solar Panels a Big Problem? According to OCS Energy, a startup based ... in residential solar-electric power system installation. School Goes Solar Woodside Priory, a Catholic [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 16:44:17

Blog posts (13) | Videos (5)
 

Solar Powered Community Center

In my home town, Sacramento, California I’ve seen more and more solar panels at various locations such as parking lots, ... will produce six times more power than the usual residential solar electric system. The forty units ... Martin uses solar panels is awesome because it is setting an example for the rest of the homeowners [more...]

Date: 2009-03-20 18:08:41

Jobs In Solar: In-Home Solar Salesman Needed (Northern California)

Reply to: job-pbnnk-1110539368@craigslist.org Date: 2009-04-06, 6:34PM PDT Our best salesman last year made over $150,000. We need a solid closer for our new solar division. We are a corporation dealing with energy ... enough confirmed solar leads to keep a dedicated salesman busy 5 days a week, Monday through Thursday [more...]

Date: 2009-04-07 09:33:00

California HOA vs. Cheap Blue Panels - Solar Snobbery

Filed under: Home, Local, Alternative EnergySure, homeowner’s associations can be a good vehicle for enforcing neatness and keeping property values ... to tell me what color solar panels I can put up on my own house. No thanks. That’s what happened to three ... their plans to put up photovoltaic solar panels based on the… apple products iphone [more...]

Date: 2009-03-23 08:20:36

Googleplex Solar

The Googleplex headquarters located in Mountain View California has installed one of the largest corporate solar power structures of any other company to date. The array consists of 9,212 solar panels produced by Sharp Electronics ... , the equivalent of roughly 1,000 California homes. This installation is said to save Google $393,000 [more...]

Date: 2009-03-30 18:33:57

Rise & Shine: October 15, 2008

CALIFORNIA NEWS Solar Company Picture Brightens with Renewed Incentives Mountain View-based Skyline said the extension of the tax credit bodes well for the domestic PV solar market. Skyline plans to release its concentrated solar panels next ... business in Austin, from smaller solar power panels at people’s homes to the large commercial projects [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 17:08:28

Solar At The Googleplex

The Googleplex headquarters located in Mountain View California has installed one of the largest corporate solar power structures of any other company to date. The array consists of 9,212 solar panels produced by Sharp Electronics ... , the equivalent of roughly 1,000 California homes. This installation is said to save Google $393,000 [more...]

Date: 2009-03-30 22:08:57

Borrego Gets Out of the Residential Solar Business

Filed under: Home, GreenTech, Alternative EnergyIt’s a sad day sports fans, one of Southern California’s favorite solar companies is selling off the residential side of their business, presumably considering no one is willing or able to finance rooftop panels these days [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 02:49:55

California dreaming … of a cleaner, safer, healthier world

Two photos from my recent trip to California The huge solar panel array installed on the site of the closed nuclear energy plant at Rancho Seco, CA. . Two Stanford students with their model “solar concentrator” to bring electricity to homes with none. . Just imagine what a cleaner, safer, healthier world could look [more...]

Date: 2009-04-05 03:02:56

The Planetary Society needs new digs

I just added Florida Citizens for Science (run by Brandon Haught) ... about The Planetary Society looking for a new home . TPS has been around for decades, promoting solar system exploration and even funding a space mission to test solar sail technology! Their California [more...]

Date: 2009-04-01 21:11:58

California desert is hot source for renewable energy

Solar thermal energy (or CSP, 'concentrated solar power') is catching on in the U.S ... . Here's a video by Phoenix-based Stirling Energy Systems of what one project may look like. Geo-thermal energy also holds great potential in the valley, enough to power as many as 2 million homes [more...]

Date: 2009-04-03 14:03:23

The Solar Energy Cost Curve

by CleanBeta The cost of electricity from photovoltaic (PV) ... -mounted arrays on homes and commercial buildings in the United States. California and other states [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 00:42:22

Friday Open Thread

Hopefully Obama will come back to hang out with us this weekend too.  California just isn't the same without him.  Meanwhile...
 ? ... we as a country should have that debate.
 ? Measure B, the solar-energy proposal in Los Angeles ... Pete Stark got some heat for claiming a home in Maryland as his primary residence to receive [more...]

Date: 2009-03-21 02:00:00

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