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 [...]

According to eSolar, the plant addresses many of the shortcomings that have plagued the use of widespread solar thermal power generation and kept it from becoming a mainsource of electricity, including environmental sustainability, cost and speed.

San Francisco’s Moscone Center West will host Intersolar North America 2010, the world’s largest solar technology trade fair and the top meeting point for all major players in the solar industry.

Solar thermal poster child Ausra Inc. is up for sale, sources reported recently.

Representatives of the German and Moroccan governments are scheduled to meet this week to discuss European investment in concentrated solar power and water desalinization in the North African country.

It’s been a turbulent week for solar in California. First, Governor Schwarzenegger rejects legislation that lawmakers have toiled over for the past nine months in favor of his own executive order. Now Oakland, CA-based BrightSource Energy Inc. has shelved its proposal for a controversial 500-megawatt solar thermal plant in a swath of Mojave Desert land [...]