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Thursday, Dec 13, 2012

Solar Panels for Every Home

We don’t think much about pitch pine poles until storms like Hurricane Sandy litter our landscape with their splintered corpses and arcing power lines.

Wednesday, Dec 12, 2012

Solar's Steady March: New Installation Figures Are Out

It seems that nearly weekly we hear more good news on the solar energy front. Today, the Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research released their Solar Market Insight Report for Q3 2012, with a summary of accomplishments year to date. The progress is impressive and would have been unimaginable just five years ago. Furthermore, the growth is expected to continue for the next several years, jumping from 3.2 GW in 2012 to 7.8 GW by 2015. Some highlights from the report:

Wednesday, Dec 12, 2012

Solar Installations Surge on Lower Costs and Government Support

The number of solar installations grew strongly in the nation’s residential, commercial and utility sectors in the third quarter, largely as a result of falling costs, a federal investment tax credit and state programs that support renewable energies, the solar industry’s main trade group reported on Tuesday.

Tuesday, Dec 11, 2012

Obama's Green Agenda

The White House Chronicle Rhone Resch, President and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, appears on this episode of the White House Chronicle to discuss the technology, economics, and policies behind solar energy in the U.S.    

Tuesday, Dec 11, 2012

U.S. Solar Surges 44% in Third Quarter Driven by Rooftops

Developers installed 684 megawatts of solar panels in the U.S. in the third quarter, 44 percent more than a year earlier, as residential projects rose to a record, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.

Monday, Dec 10, 2012

GreenSpace: A waving queen and other solar-powered wonders

The queen of England has gone solar.

Friday, Dec 07, 2012

Saudi America: the dangerous fallacy of US energy independence

The year is 2020. The United States is on the cusp of a golden age, there's peace in the Middle East, and the Texas oil tycoon is suddenly back in the saddle.

Thursday, Dec 06, 2012

Solar-powered plane aims to fly around the world

In 1903, the Wright brothers became the first men to fly. Twenty-four years later, Charles Lindbergh became the first to fly over the Atlantic. Coming soon...another possible breakthrough.

Wednesday, Dec 05, 2012

Renewable Energy Executive Roundtable

Renewable energy in North America has experienced unprecedented growth over the last few years, and that maturation has the potential to progress uninterrupted.

Wednesday, Dec 05, 2012

Navy builds solar power farm near Norfolk base

The Navy has completed construction of the largest solar energy project in Virginia, a 10-acre landscape of black solar panels in neat rows within sight of the Chesapeake Bay and the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.

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