As energy prices rise, solar thermal hot water heating will play an increasingly important role for California residential and commercial hot water property owners. New solar incentives and rebates in California. – New this year are new financial incentives for installing solar thermal systems in the State of California. On January 21, 2010, the California [...]
San Jose Solar News – Suns Up Solar, already a leading solar installer in Santa Cruz California, has taken a bold step toward capturing more of the San Jose California solar installers market. Despite a weak economy, U.S. solar power companies increased their revenue by 36 percent and added 17,000 jobs last year. A significant [...]
An article in the Sacramento Business Journal on June 14, 2010 caught my eye. It seems that Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac have decided to stand in the way of the new PACE solar funding program in Placer and Sacramento County. This is exactly the kind of government bureaucracy that is standing in the way [...]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently selected the team of ACCIONA Solar Power and the Clark Energy Group to develop a massive solar energy project. The first phase alone consists of five sites over 21 square miles, which will produce a cumulative 500 megawatts (MW) of power at the Fort Irwin military complex, located [...]
Sacramento Solar Installers is synonymous with energy, sustainability, growth and life. Smart sunwize homeowners in Northern California are finding that residential solar panels provide a financially sound way for them to take control of their rising electricity bills. By installing solar energy in Sacramento, you are contributing to the nation’s energy independence and help minimize [...]
Most laptop batteries are manufactured by all the leading companies in the market like Samsung, Toshiba, Panasonic, Acer, Compaq, Dell, Gateway, HP, IBM, Sony, and last but certainly not least, the new hot Apple iPad. But since we had a friend recently join the Peace Corps and wanted to find a way to reliably charge [...]
Assessing a homeowners energy consumption and designing high-performance solar system installation and integrate it into a customers home in an aesthetic manner seems simple enough. But we are finding that homeowners who know a little about solar are sometimes the toughest customers to sell because they have been told by some solar sales persons that [...]
Sunday afternoon in the backyard in Sacramento. The sun is shining, my SMUD utility meter is spinning backwards. My neighbor nods in the direction of my solar power system and says, “what’s it earning now?” One glance at my SMA Sunny Beam is enough. The results leave your neighbor whistling in appreciation. It really creates [...]
Sacramento Solar Free Site Evaluation Choose the Blue Pacific Solar team for your home or business solar energy system installation. Start-to-finish project management by solar panel installation professionals who are licensed by the state of California to install solar. A solar power system from the Blue Pacific Solar team can save money on your electric [...]
Do you find batteries exciting? I bet you don’t, but when you realize how central they are to the clean tech revolution, you’ll be intrigued. Batteries, along with emerging technologies such as ultra capacitors and flywheels are at the heart of energy storage – the ability to store enough energy to power electric transportation and [...]