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One Block Off The Grid Introduces New San Diego Program
One Block Off the Grid (1BOG), a solar buying collective, has launcheda San Diego solar community buying campaign designed to make itaffordable for San Diego homeowners to purchase solar energy at a groupdiscount rate. 1BOG says program participants can receive solarpower systems at $5.29 per watt from the 1BOG selected installerpartner, HelioPower. 1BOG’s first San [...]
Nanosolar: Growing in San Jose, CA
Nanosolar is a company that was established in 2002 that designs,engineers, and manufactures solar power that focuses on clean,reusable, and affordable energy. Nanosolar already has a Europeanpanel assembly factory in Germany automated to produce one panel everyten seconds! Nanosolar announced the production of its thin film solarmaterial at a factory in San Jose, California. That’s [...]
San Diego Area Applies for $260M in Solar Funding
San Diego, already a national leader in solar and renewable energygeneration, is upping the ante. Two weeks ago, nine public entities inthe region submitted nearly 300 applications to issue Clean RenewableEnergy Bonds (CREBs). In short, the CREB program enables municipalities and otherqualifying public entities to finance energy projects via low-interesttax-credit bonds. The bonds are sponsored [...]
Bus stops in San Francisco to offer solar powered Wi-Fi by 2013
By the year 2013, San Francisco is planning to build atleast 360 busstops which will have Wi-Fi and also these bus stops will be powered bythe sun. It will cost $30,000 for a bus stop which can sound veryexpensive but they are very energy efficient. The energy that will beleft unutilized will be fed back [...]
San Francisco Solar Powered Bus Shelter
Situatedat Geary and Arguello boulevards in the Richmond District, the new busshelter features an undulating solar roof that calls to mind both thehills of San Francisco and a seismic wave (this is earthquake territoryafter all!) The roof is constructed from an innovative 40%post-industrial recycled polycarbonate material embedded with thin-filmphotovoltaic cells, and the steel structure is [...]
San Diego Ranked #1 Solar City in the Nation
With 43, 679 solar installations producing 44 megawatts of power,San Diego has been ranked number one in the state of California and inthe nation for solar power, according to a new report by the Environment California Research & Policy Center, which is based in the state capital of Sacramento. Long a hub for wireless and [...]
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 [...]
Sun worshippers descend on San Francisco
Fifteen thousand solar devotees from around the world are expectedto meet in San Francisco this week in an event that organizers hopewill “create strong global relationships.” Actually, the sun worshippers will be fully-clothed (many in suits,no doubt). These movers and shakers, metaphorically speaking, will beattending the continent’s largest business-to-business solar tradeconference and exhibition, called Intersolar, [...]
HelioPower Signs First Project In 1BOG San Diego Campaign
HelioPower has signed the first solar power project in the One BlockOff the Grid (1BOG) solar group purchase program in San Diego. 1BOGlaunched its solar San Diego campaign on May 18, securing a discountedprice of $6.09 per DC watt for its members. "We’re proud toannounce we’ve already sold several 1BOG systems in north San DiegoCounty, [...]