Category Archives: Solar Sphere
Interview: Creator of the SolarPod
This new solar panel kit might change everything for homeowners. It’s a new system that simply plugs into a 230V wall plug and provides power for your home. We interviewed Mouli, founder of Mouli Engineering (the company that’s created it), to learn more about this exciting new development. Briefly describe the SolarPod The Mouli Engineering SolarPodTM is [...]
What Do Solar Panel Tariffs Mean For You?
The Commerce Department has found that China provided trade incentives on Chinese made solar panelsfor the US market, and that this was unfair to US solar panel manufacturers. The Commerce Department is in turn charging a tariff on all Chinese imports of modules starting this summer. Here are some answers to help understand the dispute [...]
5 Reasons I Love The Solar Industry
Its funny how a simple thing like a computer virus can make take a step back appreciate your business. This morning a virus shut down my computer and let me have some time to just think about the business I have. (Anyone else notice how useless you are without a computer these days?)And in thinking [...]
3 Innovations That Will Make Solar Power Easier and More Affordable
Solar power as we know it has been around for almost a century. Many people believe that its still the same basic technology that helped power early spacecraft and the White House in the 1970′s. But advancements over the past 10 years have brought solar to the cutting edge with new investment and an emphasis [...]
Solar Leasing: An Exciting New Way to Get Solar Panels
There are many ways to go about getting solar panels on your home. Most of them involve hiring a good contractor to design and install a system on your roof. And, unfortunately, it often involves spending a lot of money up front on the system and installation. Fortunately, there are alternatives that are rapidly evolving [...]
5 Easy and Affordable Ways to Start Using Solar Power
There is so much talk of green and clean energy these days, most people have at least thought about how they can use solar in their lives. The problem is that with a tough economy and bleak jobs market, most people just don’t have the money to invest in solar. Here are 5 cheap and [...]
Solar Power Industry Trends From An Installer’s Point of View
Having been in the renewable energy and solar power industries for thelast 10 years, I often get asked about what the future holds. Whetheryou are interested for investment purposes or general curiosity, I would say in the general the future is extremely bright for clean energy.Here are some things that we see coming in the [...]
Solar Panel Kits That Anyone Can Afford
New innovations in the solar power industry are making solar moreaffordable than ever. Now nearly anyone can afford a small startup kitthat will allow homeowners and business owners to start producingrenewable energy and add more panels as their budget allows in thefuture. Just a couple years ago the minimum solar power kityou could find was [...]
DIY Solar Part 6: Planning the System Install
Ok, we’ve got solar panels,we’ve got tools, now we’re ready to start putting them up! Woohoo! Wellhold on there partner, the better we plan this out the smoother theinstall will be. So let’s take a minute and a piece of paper to figureout how we’re going to do this. Simple Roof DiagramMostbuilding departments will require [...]