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The town of Eagle-Vail, Colorado recently opened a community pool heated with 54 solar panels installed by Capitol Solar Energy and manufactured by UMA Solar.

The city of Covington, Georgia recently installed a solar water heating and photovoltaic system on the Covington City Hall. Not only will the system save the city money, but will also educate the public about the myriad of benefits from solar water heating and photovoltaics.

In an effort to attain LEED Gold certification, the College of Marin in Kentfield, California recently incorporated solar water heating into a major renovation of its Diamond Physical Education Center. SunWater Solar installed 89 Heliodyne GOBI 410 collectors which will provide warm water for two major public swimming pools. The two pools hold a total of 295,000 gallons of water.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) recently released Utility Scale Solar 2012, which examines trends in installations costs, operations and maintenance costs, capacity factors and power purchase agreement prices for all utility-scale solar technologies.

Nomination materials for candidates for the USP Division Vice Chair election, October 2013

Conflict:  Existing solar-related trade remedy orders and investigations between the United States and China are causing significant adverse and unintended effects across the global solar supply chain, without sufficiently addressing the underlying causes of unfair trade competition.