California signs a new law into action that makes it possible for local governments to offer low interest loans for residential solar installations.

China may not have as advanced a solar program as Germany (although, as Eric’s noted, Germany’s solar subsidies recently underwent a drastic slash) or Spain do, but a few pockets of land both to the north and to the south have become shining beacons of light for the rest of the country.
Take Jiangsu province, for [...]

In the same week, a report tells us we can achieve 10% of our energy from solar by 2025, and the Senate turns down the renewable energy tax credit. Again.

Government support for solar is seeing one of its standouts slide backwards, as Germany is cutting back on solar subsidies. This is obviously extremely disappointing, and while this isn’t entirely new news, the human end economic cost of the goverment’s change in policy is becoming much more apparent. Solar installers are having to deal with [...]

The typically interesting Timothy Ferris, author of bestseller The 4-Hour Work Week, has come out with a great post about the return on investment for going green. It gets to the heart of a lot of what we talk about here, but, most importantly, it emphasizes the fact that responding to climate change is [...]

A growing energy industry will obviously produce jobs, and renewables like solar have been a crucial part of that growth. RedOrbit has put out the latest in a string of articles about the positive effect of the energy industry on national job growth. With worries of an upcoming recession having turned into worries about the [...]

Telegraph UK reports that the British government will soon reverse its existing policy and will move to solar feed-in tariffs. The upshot is that Britain consumers will now be in a far better position to pursue economically feasible solar installations for their homes.

This is fantastic news by any standard. This also appears to be the [...]

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 [...]

Sometimes, I don’t really have answers. This case where the neighbors of a solar user were forced to cut down their trees is one of those times.
This story brings up all kinds of troublesome issues, and challenges a lot of assumptions about green living and being environmentally responsible. Most, or at least many, environmentalists would [...]

I’ll admit it: I thought McCain was a shoe-in. And sure, he came out ahead in yesterday’s grand slam of primaries, but he got a run for his money from Romney and even, in some states, from the dark horse Huckabee.
Let’s be honest. We were all more on tenterhooks about the outcome of the Democratic [...]