South Carolina — currently ranked ranked 20th in solar energy capacity and 29th in generated solar energy among all states — is making an effort to move up the ranks.

Students from Unity College in Maine join prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben next week for a road trip, carrying a very old solar hot water panel from their college campus to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Photo credit: Kennebec Journal This panel was originally stationed on the White House roof under Jimmy Carter’s administration, but was later removed [...]

Even though we’re going to get pretty granular here, let’s start with the big picture: you’re thinking about installing a solar hot water system in California. Since you’re probably wondering how much it costs, you’ll want to know how much the state is willing to pay you in rebates. The California Solar Initiative (CSI) Thermal [...]

Rebates available in Tucson Electric Power’s service area make residential solar hot water systems very affordable. The payback period for this technology in Southern Arizona is 7 years.

This prime solar state offers an enticing return on investment for solar hot water. First, being smack dab in the middle of the Sunbelt means that owners of solar hot water systems will benefit from some of the world’s most consistent sunlight as well as relatively high temperatures. The high outdoor temperatures are especially helpful, [...]

How do you allocate roof space for both a solar PV system and a solar hot water system? True solar enthusiasts occasionally run into this type of dilemma. It’s most common to see one or the other on an individual roof, but the space requirements for these complementary technologies add another dimension to choosing between [...]

The 48 panels provide hot water as high as 240 degrees used to clean the exterior of subway cars and give the facilty’s roughly 500 hundred workers hot water in their restrooms.

Bowdoin College, the nationally known liberal arts and science college in Brunswick, Maine, has received a $50,000 grant from the state’s Public Utilities Commission to install a solar hot water system atop Bowdoin’s Thorne Hall, one of the largest water-consuming buildings on its campus.

The SRCC certification is significant because most federal and state government rebate programs require SRCC certification in order to qualify for their programs.

Traditionally, hot water heating systems are the most energy consuming systems in house households. WePower’s system can slash your home’s total energy cost by up to 45 percent, cut your household emissions by 30 percent and prevent 4-6 tons of annual household emissions.