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Solar Lifts California Home Sales Prices
“We find compelling evidence that solar photovoltaic systems in California have boosted home sales prices,” said Ben Hoen, the lead researcher on the study and a principal research associate at Berkeley Lab. “The irony is that we found that premiums were smaller for new home sales than for existing home sales, and the big question … Continue reading
SPD Glass Controls Solar Gain and Heat Load
Green Technology: SPD Glass Controls Solar Gain and Heat Load Green Technology Achieve a Sustainable Future with Green Technology. Create Innovation for New Energy. « Renewable fuel standards enable biofuel investment | Main | Nanoscale conductive polymers increase solar cell conversion » SPD Glass Controls Solar Gain and Heat Load Research Frontiers, Inc’s SPD technology … Continue reading
Solar Estimates in Quickbooks: Free Webinar
Join us Friday, January 28, 2011, 9:00 – 10:00 AM PSTTips & tricks to create a solar estimate in Quickbooks.Also, Solar for Quickbooks Plug-in & Add-ons developer Q&A.REGISTER HERE to receive Login InstructionsInterested in purchasing solar? Free Solar Estimates Online View the original article here
Huge Growth Expected for North American Solar Industry
As Conference Committee Chair of Intersolar North America for the past three years, I witnessed the ebb and flow of policy, regulation, investments and its effect on the solar industry. The U.S. solar market has the potential to double once again in 2011, making it a contender for the world’s largest solar market by 2015. … Continue reading
Nanosolar lands big orders for printed solar cells
Nanosolar thin-film solar cells are made using a roll-to-roll process and then the cells are assembled into panels in another factory in Germany.(Credit: Nanosolar) Thin-film solar company Nanosolar said today it has secured sizable customer orders and it expects to match solar industry cost leaders in a few years. Nanosolar, one of dozens of companies … Continue reading
Wilmington Friends School to use new campus solar power system for student education
Installed by Standard Solar, Inc. and owned and operated by Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc. (WGES), the system will provide electricity for both the lower school building (319 panels) and the upper school building (407 panels). Upper School students will be able to monitor the real-time output from the solar PV panels through a display … Continue reading
Solar car chases checkered flag at Indy
One of these things just ain’t like the other.(Credit: Amanda Kooser/CNET) It’s race day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. You can almost feel the rumble of the engines and hear the whine of fine-tuned race cars whipping around the curves. Here they come! A small herd of flat fish pull quietly up to the track. … Continue reading
LORD Corporation’s Conductive Materials Improve Solar Cell Conductivity
By Alternative Energy News | 2011-05-03 10:56:35.0 Cary, NC – 04/01/2010 LORD Corporation, a leading supplier of thermal management materials, adhesives, coatings and encapsulants, has pioneered several product advancements that are an improvement over what is now available to the solar industry. These products are ideal for applications, such as screen-printed solar collection grids, photovoltaic … Continue reading
SolarCraft Completes Solar for Meadow Club
Novato, CA Novato and Sonoma-based SolarCraft announced the completion of a solar electric installation at The Meadow Club in Fairfax, CA. The famed Marin County Golf Course’s maintenance operations are now powered by clean, renewable energy. Over the next 30 years, the air pollution saved will be equivalent to eliminating over 1.3 million miles of … Continue reading
India ‘Gets Heat’ from Solar Investors, SunBorne and Suntech
SunBorne Energy Technologies, a leading specialist in utility scale solar solutions, and Suntech Power Holdings (News – Alert) Co., Ltd., the world’s largest producer of solar panels, have entered into a framework agreement for the supply of 100 megawatts (MW) of solar panels over the next two years for projects in India. Wuxi, China-based Suntech announced … Continue reading