New Jersey Solar Rebates, SRECS, and Incentives

New Jersey gets bad wrap about a lotof things. All those turnpike exits, and that glorious smell as you gopast the oil refineries in the Northern part of the state. But onething you can’t fault the garden state is Solar. In fact, New Jersey isat the top of our 2009 Solar Report Card. It got [...]

A-Power Buys Japanese Thin-Film Tool Maker (APWR)

A-Power Energy Generation Systems (NSDQ: APWR) said it has signed a deal to buy Evatech Co., an established seller of factory equipment for making LCD and plasma display panels, for $49.9 million in cash. What really gets A-Power excited about the acquisition is Evatech’ssolar business. Evatech, based in Kyoto, recently began to offer toolsfor making [...]

India mainly an off-grid solar PV market thus far

Research and Markets has announced the addition of GlobalData’s new report "Indian Solar Sector: Dawn of a New Era" to its offering. Thefuture of solar PV development in India looks encouraging and isexpected to be driven by the government incentives and PV supportprograms. India is mainly an off-grid solar PV market with only 2.12 MWof [...]

Yee Haw! Texans Want Solar

A new survey of nearly 1,000 voters in Texas revealed what many might have guessed from the Lone Star State’s brush with solar incentivesearlier this year: Texans want more solar power. 53 percent of thosesurveyed said they would support incentives for solar even if it meantadding a few dollars on to their monthly electric bills [...]

NJ has over 4000 Solar Panels Installed!

New Jersey is undoubtedly very pleased today as they have reached over 4000 solar panel installations statewide! Great job NJ! The 4000thone installed was a larger array that powers 15 studio apartmentsthrough a group of energy programs and financial groups. A significantportion of this 4000th project alone was paid for in part byincentives from the [...]

Federal and State Incentives for Solar

Whether you’re a solar installer looking to increase sales, a PVmanufacturer trying to decide where to expand, a homeowner figuring outif you can afford a rooftop array or a rewnable-energy/climate-changeactivist fighting global warming, there is one Website you need to check out: www.dsireusa.org. Since 1995, the Database of State Incentives for Renewables &Efficiency (DSIRE) has [...]

Do You Really Need a Solar Installer?

We get a lot of questions here at GetSolar about why solarinstallation is so expensive. Savvy internet users point out news itemsthat say solar should be mere pennies per watt in the next few years,or come across the wholesale prices for solar panels and believe that’swhat they should be paying for installation. But like any [...]

Chinese Solar Companies Invade San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO — The latest hot spot for the Chinese solar industry is San Francisco, according to Mayor Gavin Newsom. Speaking at Intersolar, Newsom pointed out that Suntech PowerHoldings, the solar module giant, opened its U.S. headquarters herelast year with four employees. It now has 50 and in about a year itwill have 100. Trina [...]

Arizona Senate Panel Approves Solar Incentives

S.B.1403, which would provide tax breaks to new factories thatmanufacture renewable energy equipment, has been approved by a vote of12-6 by an Arizona State Senate committee. The Arizona Republicreports that the structure of the tax incentives was modeled afterthose in nearby states that have hosted similar manufacturing plants.Arizona’s legislation would offer factories a 10% income [...]

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