A closer look at the details of funding for HR 7060, the solar tax credit bill currently stalled in the Senate.

If you read our blog regularly, you might have noticed that I’m always ranting about how solar needs to be popularized before it will really sweep the nation. Well, it’s not there yet, but the last couple of weeks have given me a bit of hope. For one thing, last week’s Democratic National Convention in [...]

My eye was caught by this bit of news, just a small GreenBiz.com report on a small survey about consumer responses to different kinds of utility incentives to save energy. The company that conducted the 1,000 person survey was EcoAlign, a consulting agency looking getting in on the “green market”. The findings of the study [...]

A look at solar projects nation-wide.

This article from CNN about a MIT professor working on thin-film solar curtains has all kinds of food for thought on an important issue: how solar will integrate with our existing conceptions of what a home looks and feels.
When you hear “solar curtains,” the idea that comes to mind are pretty basic - the same [...]

The more I’ve studied international cooperation as it pertains to climate change, the more I’ve come to believe that a mainstay of the solution will ultimately lie with technology. Put differently, I don’t think that we can stabilize CO2 levels just by getting everyone to give up their car in favor of riding their bike [...]

Our main areas of focus here at Getsolar are photovoltaics and solar hot water heating systems–those technologies that we, as individuals, can incorporate into our daily lives to lower our energy bills and lessen our dependence on carbon-intensive energy sources like coal. But on occassion, advancements in other technologies merit our attention. The February 22 [...]

Fox Business reports that Prince Andrew is lending his name and presence to the launch of a solar energy system in California. The system installation is for the firm British Telecommunications. While his role as Special Representative for International Trade and Investment for the United Kingdom obviously leaves such appearances well within his job description [...]

Martin LaMonica at CNET’s Green Tech Blog ran an interesting piece on Friday, highlighting the absence of solar from Congress’s recent and much-debated economic stimulus package. But there’s really not much of a story here.
Solar is going to continue to be as contentious in Washington as other green issues for some time to come. The [...]

Photo by Flickr user M. Lubinski; Creative Commons license.
With concerns over oil supplies, as always, gripping the international community, many Middle Eastern nations are prospering as their oil resources become more in demand. Qatar, especially, has seen a great amount of economic growth. That growth is now apparently leading Qatar to put solar development high [...]