The system will stretch across seven separate carports at Tucson, Arizona’s Souther Arizona VA Health Care System.

A disturbing trend has taken shape in New Bedford, Massachusetts — one that the city’s mayor, Scott Lang, and a team of retired military men and women who started Welcome Home Veterans Housing (WHVH) are working to change. The majority of homeless people in New Bedford  are military veterans. And for the last nine years, WHVH has [...]

The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) building in Philadelphia is now home to Pennsylvania’s largest solar energy system. Able to generate approximately 555,160 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of solar electricity, the system will power nearly five percent of all of the building’s electricity needs.

VA’s intial announcment in November only included solar installations at facilities in Texas, California, Nevada and Arizona that would amount to 1.7 megawatts (mw) of solar energy. Last week, VA unleashed a broader plan that included installations at 18 medical centers in eight states and American Samoa that together would total 3,020 kilowatts (kW) of solar energy.

SunWize Technologies, a Hudson Valley solar installation firm, has landed a $7.8 million federal contract to upgrade the solar energy systems at veterans’ hospitals across the country, reports The Daily Freeman. Based in Kingston-Ulster, New York, SunWize will work on solar power systems at Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities in the following locations: Albany, Buffalo and [...]

Judging from recent announcements, the Department of Veterans Affairs is aiming for a solar-powered future. On November 20, the VA announced plans to install a solar photovoltaic (PV) system at a facility of the West Texas VA Health Care System. And today, via the Phoenix Business Journal, we learned that VA hospitals in Arizona, California [...]