For the nerds out there who want to learn fun details of solar technology without taking engineering classes, we have a brief intro to solar parabolic troughs. Nope — these don’t look like the panels that grace the rooftops of homes and buildings to generate clean electricity. Parabolic troughs are solar thermal technology: they use [...]

December 31st will signify something much more important than popping champagne bottles and dropping the New Year’s Eve ball in Times Square. It spells the end of the line for two important federal government incentives that have helped solar energy systems pop up from coast to coast.

Solar Millenium LLC in Oakland, California – which plans to build the largest solar thermal plant in the world in California’s Mojave Desert – has agreed to fund a conservation project to protect the desert tortoise and Mojave fringe-toed lizard during the plant’s construction.

The White House will be getting a little bit greener very soon, as the Obama Administration will install a small photovoltaic (PV) solar energy system atop the White House that will heat water and supply a small amount of electricity for the First Family.

One of the main arguments put forth by those opposed to the Ivanpah solar thermal project in California’s Mojave Desert is that the negative environmental impact of the plant would be too great. On August 3, a panel of the California Energy Commission (CEC) weighed in. The Ivanpah plant will use mirrors to reflect sunlight onto [...]

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.