Just this Thursday six schools in the East Side Union High School District broke ground on a 3.7 MW solar project. They are going solar to reduce the energy costs of the school, and also due to the very favorable incentives around for solar power. Once these sites go online it will save the schools [...]Post from: Boots On The RoofClick here to play

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Sure solar power is expanding rapidly, as more and more homes and businesses are converting to solar power systems, but it?s not just the solar panels that are a good option to go green. Solar Water heating systems are becoming more and more widespread, as this is a great way to replace fossil fuel reliant [...]Post from: Boots On The RoofClick here to play

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Green architecture is an emerging field that seeks to add to the sustainable building idea of the green revolution, which means energy efficient and often very modern looking. With all the earthquakes that have happened in recent years it?s no wonder that earthquake safe energy efficient buildings would be desired as well. OFIS Architectures new [...]Post from: Boots On The RoofClick here to play

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Solar PV systems have had a steady increase even with all the recent economic uncertainty in the US last year. 2009 ended with an amazing 18% increase over 2008?s installed solar capacity, and at this current pace it should be easy to hit many of the 2020 goals set by utilities and our government as [...]Post from: Boots On The RoofClick here to play

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With all the talk of smart grids it begs the question how many of these ideas have been tested in neighborhoods. Well that?s just what Chicago electric service provider Exelon Corporation is going to do. They plan on retrofitting 100 Chicago area homes with solar panel systems, and also giving around 50 of them ?smart [...]Post from: Boots On The RoofClick here to play

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For years there have been attempts at making the next big source of highly efficient energy production, many of which have not actually worked as well as hoped.  Well now there is a real innovation that poises to be a key highly efficient energy source. The Bloom box is essentially a micro fuel cell system [...]Post from: Boots On The RoofClick here to play

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Brightsource Energy has announced it will make a large solar collector power station in the Mojave desert, CA. This project will create lots of much needed jobs and generate enough power for 140,000 CA homes. To help this project along is a large amount of federal funding that shows yet again the focus of the [...]Post from: Boots On The RoofClick here to play

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There has been a lot of talk and effort to increase CA net metering to give more credit to homeowners that have the systems installed and who are producing excess power. The State Assembly overwhelmingly passed the bill last Thursday, which was sponsored by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, and has also Passed in the Senate. All [...]Post from: Boots On The RoofClick here to play

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Like most states Georgia has implemented a Green Energy program, but under the previous program 90% of this was from biomass operations, with only 10% coming from solar. Fortunately this ratio is being altered to 50/50, which will help to ?encourage more participation in the Green Energy program and further advance the development of [...]Post from: Boots On The RoofClick here to play

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States have been making solar pledges left and right in recent months, and so far these pledges are on track, as solar continues to grow exponentially across the nation. Next in line for large scale solar installations is Maryland, which hopes to add 100,000 new solar rooftop installations in the next 10 years. Estimates show [...]Post from: Boots On The RoofClick here to play

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