Tag Archives: incentives
Shining a Spotlight on Detroit’s Solar Incentives
An unlikely location in the Midwest is setting up to be a locus ofsolar activity: Detroit, Michigan, former world auto industry capitalas famed for its Model-Ts as it was for its smoke-belching factories,is also at the center of a pilot solar incentive program offered byutility company DTE Energy Co. through its subsidiary Detroit Edison.With Michigan [...]
Detroit Rocks for Solar Power Incentives
It’s really nice that we’re SolarPowerRocks.com and that we have theopportunity to praise Rock ‘n Roll City of Detroit and its utility, DTEEnergy, for launching a solar incentive program. Contrary to popular believe, solar works great in cold weather. In fact, solar panels works betterin cold temperatures. What matters with solar panels is the amount [...]
A GetSolar Guide to California Solar Incentives
If there’s one thing that a first-time buyer of solar, a seasonedsolar installer and we here at GetSolar.com all know about buying asolar system, it’s that solar incentives can be inordinatelycomplicated and differentiated, with utility-, state- and sometimeseven county-specific rebates and regulations unapologetically in place.Even the most experienced solar energy expert can’t be expected toremember [...]
Clean Energy Manufacturing Incentives to Boost State Economies
President Barack Obama announced last week that Recovery Act funding would be used to offer clean energy manufacturingcompanies tax incentives for job creation. The federal tax credits areworth 30 percent of the investment in new or expanded factories, andcollectively, $2.3 billion will be available for 183 alternative-energyequipment factories, proposed for 43 states, which were approved forthese [...]
New Arizona Business Incentives for Cleantech Boom
Arizona Republican state legislators have proposed a new job creationand business tax-relief bill to aid the state’s economic recovery. Thenew Arizona Economic and Job Recovery bill focuses on attracting andretaining "base industries" such as manufacturing, high-tech andR&D oriented companies already located in the state includingBoeing, Intel Corp. and Raytheon Missile Systems that offer high-payingjobs, attract [...]
Hawaii Solar Rebates and Tax Incentives – Updated!
Aloha, solar powered Hawaii people! We’ve just updated our Hawaii solar incentives and rebates page.It’s wonderful to live in paradise, especially if you have robust solarrebates and incentives to take advantage of all of that sun. Hawaii is in a unique situation in that it’s really on the groundfloor of solar, yet the Islands are [...]
How Much Does a Solar Installation Cost?
This week I spoke with an unusually high number of people who justwanted me to answer the question: How much is a solar panelinstallation on my home going to cost me? I wish I could answer thateasily. I wish anyone could answer that easily–but it’s just notpossible. On this blog, we try to talk a [...]
Thoughts on Thomas Friedman’s Sept 15th Op-Ed on Solar Investment
In a September 15th NY Time op-ed piece, Thomas Friedman makes that case that innovative solar technology is invented in the US, but only finds manufacturing customers overseas, primarily in China and Germany. Applied Materials, he writes, is a US company that makes themachinery that produces microchips and another silicon product: solarpanels. All 14 solar [...]