The most efficient solar electric and thermal systems in the United States will be put to use in Escondido, California.

This week, the military housing manufacturer Actus Lend Lease and FSL energy announced that they will soon team to add solar hot water heating systems to 900 homes at the Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The project will be the biggest solar thermal initiative in the continental United States.

Beginning Monday, April 19, the California Department of Development Services will oversee the program, as the Southern California city tries to reduce its total energy consumption, slash fossiel fuel output and make buildings more energy efficient.

There’s no avoiding it: as the benefits of solar energy become more widely known, theft of solar panels, or at least attempted theft, will undoubtedly rise.

Check out some of the solar home garden products below and see if they fit your spring planting plans.

Solar ground lights are an efficient way to bring glow to your garden. You can stake them into the soil beside your

What is a HERS rating? It is essentially a total analysis and diagnosis of how energy efficient a home’s construction plan is.

When you’re looking into a solar energy system for your home, you suddenly have to take a much deeper look at your overall energy usage. Assessing how energy efficient you are is the very first step; making changes to become more efficient, the second. But the third? Getting pretty up close and personal with your [...]

Both SoCal and NorCal have vigorously pursued the deployment of solar energy installations.

In an effort to spur home sales during a gloomy time for real estate, Michigan-based developer Pulte Homes has begun to offer residences with solar roofs at two of its Arizona developments, in addition to a few of its solar roof communities developed earlier elsewhere the country. Since the beginning of the new year, Pulte [...]

If there’s one thing that a first-time buyer of solar, a seasoned solar installer and we here at GetSolar.com all know about buying a solar system, it’s that solar incentives can be inordinately complicated and differentiated, with utility-, state- and sometimes even county-specific rebates and regulations unapologetically in place. Even the most experienced solar energy [...]