In recent years, Massachusetts has become a pretty good place to install a solar home energy system. The reason? A number of factors — a statewide solar rebate program, a market for solar renewable energy credits, and relatively high conventional electricity prices — combine to make a good financial proposition out of installing solar panels. [...]

Now two years after the passing of the bill, SBI Energy has released a report detailing how the ARRA has helped advance the use of clean energy throughout the country.

Briarcliff Manor and Pleasantville in Weschester County, New York will share a federal solar grant that will allow both cities to install state-of-the-art solar photovoltaic (PV) systems atop each city’s public works department garages.

Many Florida homeowners who applied for rebates when installing energy-efficient air conditioning and solar energy systems as part of the Florida Solar Rebate Program have waited quite a while for that check in the mail.

Vice President Joe Biden yesterday helped release a report (PDF) describing how the Recovery Act has bolstered the economy — and specifically highlighting its effect on innovation in key sectors like transportation, healthcare, and, yes, renewable energy. The report boasts 50 pages of data and analysis, but it lacks the kind of compelling headlines that might [...]

The City of Aurora, Colorado, is using $1 million in federal stimulus funds to provide energy efficiency rebates to it residents. The funds — worth up to $1,000 for homeowners and $1,500 for businesses — may be combined with those available via Xcel Energy’s energy efficiency rebate program. What does this mean? Meaningful savings during a [...]

The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) building in Philadelphia is now home to Pennsylvania’s largest solar energy system. Able to generate approximately 555,160 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of solar electricity, the system will power nearly five percent of all of the building’s electricity needs.

Yosemite National Park in California will soon be home to the largest solar energy installation in the U.S. National Park System. Officials yesterday announced that the park will install a 539-kilowatt (kW), grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) system at a maintenance complex located just outside park boundaries. With all the bad news (and oil) coming out of the [...]

The California Recovery Task Force announced today that $110 million of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds will go towards energy efficiency and solar within the state. The money travels quite a path from the federal DOE to the State Energy Program to the SEP’s Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit and Municipal Financing Programs. These funds [...]

On November 6, the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) began offering grants worth up to $25,000 to companies and non-profits that install mid-sized solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar hot water systems. Made possible by $1.45 million in federal funding from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the new grants are available through October 31, 2010, or [...]