Remember the good old days of sci-fi, when our hero would come home to a house that knew exactly how warm to be, and would have dinner ready in the oven? Well, the powers that be are working on a vision for a responsive, smarter national electric grid that would deliver greater efficiency and reliability [...]

It’s a new year, with a new blog. We at getsolar.com are hoping to see some trends continue in 2008, and some new ones begin. Talking about climate change, energy independence, and renewable energy options is now so commonplace that it is more conspicuous for its absence than its occurrence.
We can see this trend reflected [...]

News: The Boston Globe
When Governor Deval Patrick (D) came into office as Governor of Massachusetts last year, he faced some uphill battles as a result of sixteen years of conservative state leadership, and he’s still slogging through many of them. One on which significant progress can said to have been made, however, is that of [...]

Yeah, that’s right. We said China. The world’s two most prodigal energy consumers have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU, to the initiated) in an effort to take stock of a situation that some might say is overdue for some controls.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will offer training sessions in the States for Chinese [...]

Saturday was an exciting day for us at GetSolar. The House passed two new energy bills that, among other things, will require most utilities to generate 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources.
The measures also begins to extend and address production tax credits, which have been crucial to promoting growth in the renewables sector—and [...]

Remember when Paul Hogan was popular and everyone knew what a Vegemite sandwich was?
Back in February, Australia announced that it would phase out the sale of incandescent light bulbs by 2010. The bulbs, which are foolishly inefficient, will be pulled from the market in order to allow compact fluorescent (CFLs) bulbs and LEDs to take [...]

The Senate passed its own version of this House bill in June 2007. A month later, it returned to the House for conference in order to reconcile the two versions of the bill for Presidential review.
The bill’s future is uncertain, given that the Republican Party has characteristically shown strong support for Detroit by giving automakers [...]