Video Home Solar Simplified

HelioPower’s home solar financing partner, SunRun, has a cool new video to help explain home solar. Check it out: Popout

Home Energy Efficiency? There’s an App for That

Yes, of course there’s an app for that. It can’t bring you thickerwindows or a solar hot water system, but it can grade your energyefficiency based on detailed information you provide. And if you dodecide to invest in solar or efficiency retrofits, clear graphics willmake those improvements tangible. Developed by Qreative Medias, the Home Energy [...]

GeoSun to Introduce Solar Green Home at ENTECH 2010

GeoSun is allset to unveil sustainable “Green Home” at ENTECH 2010 to be held inPusan. In addition to the house, the company will also showcase newenvironmentally friendly technologies. The Green Home is an eco-friendly greenhouse with low cost and high efficiency where terrestrial heat and solar heat is utilized to reduce energy consumption and sunlight [...]

The Climate Bill and Home Solar Energy

Harry Reid abandoned efforts to push the climate change bill through the senate. But what does that mean for residential solar energy? Fortunately, residential solar rebates will not be directly impacted by the loss of the climate bill. Thebill was mainly set up to address the releasing of green house gases,and in particularly, carbon dioxide, [...]

Buying a Home? Consider Solar.

There areseveral considerations you need to make when buying a home. Energyefficiency is moving up that list for a number of reasons. People aremore aware of their consumption and want to reduce their total cost ofownership and are concerned about reducing their ongoing utility bills. In addition, energy efficient homes are more attractive to [...]

Latest Solar Technology Showcased At California Home

A brand-new solar home installation in Escondido, California is showcasing an array of solar energy equipment, including a solar hot water(solar thermal) system, solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and SolarEdgeTechnologies inverters, which have an industry-leading efficiency rateof 97.5 percent. Generally speaking, this means that only 2.5 percent of the energy is lost when converting the direct [...]

Dow Chemical’s “Vision Zero” Net-zero Energy Home

Last week, the Dow Chemical Company and Cobblestone Homes in Michigan unveiled what is being billed as the nation’s first affordable, net-zero energy home. The home, in other words, isdesigned to generate as much (or more) electricity than is needed —resulting in a net-zero electric bill. Dubbed “Vision Zero,” the home islocated in Bay City, Michigan, [...]

Energy Independence Begins at Home

President Obama is coming to town tomorrow to visit Solyndra, asolar panel manufacturer in Fremont that received a $535 million federal loan guarantee to build a second plant that will employ 1000 people. Presidents don’t spend a whole lot of time touring factories but, whenthey do, they select their sites carefully. Sagging auto industry? Visit a GM plant in [...]

Dublin, Georgia, to be new home to German-rooted Mage Solar

MAGE SOLAR GMBH, part of the globally operating MAGE GROUP, and theGovernor of Georgia, Sonny Perdue, recently announced the setup of thesolar company’s North American headquarters and production facility forphotovoltaic modules in the state of Georgia. In the city of Dublin inLaurens County MAGE SOLAR will invest $30 million to create 350 jobswithin the next [...]

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