Tag: Residential Solar
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PG&E’s Solar Choice program lets customers go 100 percent solar without a system
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) launched a program called Solar Choice, which extends the option for 100 percent solar power to customers who are not planning to install rooftop solar panels. Customers can purchase half or all of their electric power from solar energy locally sourced in Northern andRead More
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Another solar win: California keeps net metering rates
Outside of Nevada, the solar industry seems to be winning contentious debates left and right. Maybe the most major of these debates was taking place in California and, of course, concerned net metering. The margin was narrow, but in a 3 to 2 vote, California’s Public Utilities Commission upheld the netRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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New York approves $5 billion fund to grow renewable energy
New York keeps showing its dedication to renewable energy. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Public Service Commission’s approved a 10-year, $5 billion Clean Energy Fund to accelerate the growth of New York’s clean energy economy, address climate change, strengthen resiliency in the face of extreme weather andRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Orison claims to have plug-and-play energy storage system
Energy storage company Orison says it has come up with “the first true plug-and-play energy storage system” that is now available for pre-order on Kickstarter. This new solution from Orison is a networked, distributed energy storage solution gives consumers control so they can store energy from any electricity source, including gridRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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GRID Alternatives, SunPower bring solar to four low-income Texas homes
About 80 Austin-based employee volunteers from global solar innovator, SunPower, brought the transformative power of solar energy to four low-income families in Austin’s Blackland Neighborhood. Working with national solar nonprofit GRID Alternatives over two days, the volunteers installed four rooftop solar systems totaling 13 kW of generating capacity. The systemsRead More — Solar Builder magazine