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They have been in business for over 30 years, their product SolarWall (the "transpired solar collector") is in use on buildings for the US Military, Wal-Mart, Fed Ex, Bombardier, Ford, GM, etc, they have won multiple awards and has been praised by the United States Department of Energy as "[in the] top two percent of energy related inventions." - why don't they get more coverage?!? Watch the flash presentation and tell me this isn't a serious and practical solution to help mitigate GHG gases and climate change...

A common inaccuracy that I frequently encounter -- through work, in the media, and in government -- is based on an implied assumption that energy, and energy displacement, and therefore solar energy, revolves solely around electricity. This perception is pervasive in several countries around the world.

Margot Gerritsen visits the Palo Alto Research Center again to have a look at the new concentrated solar PV system designed at PARC with Solfocus, a start-up incubated at PARC. It's a clever device that is designed to reduce the amount of silicon needed in PV systems per Watt produced.

Margot Gerritsen, Faculty Member, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University,  interviews Scott Elrod, Manager of the Hardware SystemsGroup, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC); about the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center's ventures into the clean technology area. Recently, PARC worked together with the start-up SolFocus on the development of a new type of solar PV system, which is as effective as existing solar PV technology but requires a muchsmaller volume of silicon per unit area.

Governor Schwarzenegger joins Southern California Edison officials on the rooftop of ProLogis in Fontana, CA, to announce the nation's largest rooftopsolar installation project ever proposed by a utility company.

Wonder when I'll be able to produce them on my HP photosmart?

An article comparing price, efficiency and the environmental impact of different solar panels.

Lawrence Kazmerski, Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics, discusses the prospects of solar-photovoltaic (PV) technologies, arguing that this solar-electricity source is at a tipping point in the very complex realm of worldwide energy. Kazmerski discusses how recent research and development advances in areas such as solar

This is a fun interactive map that shows all the residential solar installations in San Francisco. Take a look at the San Francisco Solar Map, and find out who is putting in solar, while getting a number of interesting solar facts at the same time!

Envision Solar installs outdoor solar parking structures. Presentation at the Dow Jones VentureWire Alternative Energy Innovations conference.

Their onsite monitoring systems will collect the relevant performance, usage and fault data about your solar energy systems. The data is automatically communicated over the Internet. See the energy uses of actuall homes here as an example.

This is a cool interactive map of solar panel installation sites in California and Colorado. Click on the dots to zoom in.

NOT a pitch for CitizenRE, but rather an explanation of how, for homeowners in some parts of the US, it's cheaper to install a solar system through a home improvement loan than to continue to pay utility rates.