Construction of the site is set to begin in 2011 and bring thousands of long and short term jobs to the state with the highest rate of unemployment – 14 percent according toCSMonitor.com – and home foreclosures – one in every 79 homes according to fox5vegas.

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

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.

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.

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.

The electric co-op currently serving communities in Nevada and California is doing all it can to make the solar appliance more affordable for homeowners: sellling the systems for what they cost, providing free certified installation and establishing an interest free loan program to further entice the public to go solar.

The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF) has established a new $4 million state-wide solar initiative for homes and businesses expected to last until March 1, 2012.

Californians across the Golden State have additional incentive to consider solar water heating installations in 2010. This past January, the state Public Utilities Commission approved $350 million in rebates for citizens who install solar hot water systems in their homes. According to experts, the solar hot water rebates could reduce the cost of purchase and installation by [...]