A competition that began a few days ago invites students to design imaginative entries, artwork, or film in order to illustrate why they want their school powered by solar energy. Friends of the Earth is sponsoring its first renewable energy project for primary schools that span England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The … [continued]
Originally Published by the ECOreport Mosaic just launched a new solar crowdsourcing platform, where visitors to the site are asked where they would like to see solar panels. The company drew up a list of 300,000 public schools, private schools, libraries and places of worship across the United States and fed … [continued]
Originally published on Let the Sunshine In: A Solar Power Blog. The nonprofit sector would seem to represent a natural fit for the solar revolution. Nonprofits exist primarily to do good. A community center, a food bank, a nationwide health-related charity: all these try to give a helping hand to … [continued]
Originally published on Cost of Solar. How much will solar save you? Find out in about 60 seconds! There are now several options for homeowners and businesses that want to go solar — purchasing + tax credits/rebates, solar leasing, power purchase agreements (PPAs), PACE financing, and more. However, nonprofits don’t … [continued]
Originally published on Green Building Elements. The cost of going solar can be reduced significantly by pooling multiple residents’ money to purchase everyone’s’ solar panels at once to enjoy quantity discounts, due to the large quantity of panels purchased under these solar group purchases. However, is it possible to reduce … [continued]
This article was originally published on Solar Love. I recently participated in one of the Twitter #SolarChat events that @EcoOutfitters organizes. It was a real blast — fun and informative. The general focus was community solar gardens, but that was of course linked to many other solar issues. Numerous useful … [continued]
Here’s one more great guest post from Mosaic. This one’s all about investing in solar, which is what Mosaic is in the business of, so it knows what it’s talking about. By Billy Parish, Co-Founder & President of Mosaic This article is part of a Mosaic series on investments that create positive social, … [continued]
Last Wednesday, solar crowdfunding platform SunFunder was awarded $25,000 by Facebook and the Cleantech Group as winners of the Cleantech Goes Social competition. The competition, which challenged companies to “leverage Facebook’s billion person network to accelerate cleantech and increase engagement in sustainability” was awarded at the Cleantech Forum 2013 in San … [continued]
The US solar energy market and industry fired on all cylinders in 2012 despite headwinds in Congress, a fragile economic recovery, internal industry turmoil, and ongoing opposition from fossil fuel and utility industry players, according to SEIA-GTM’s Solar Market Insight 2012 year in review.
Solar Mosaic’s wasting no time as it seeks to build on the initial success of its innovative solar PV crowdfunding platform as it partners to develop credit ratings for rooftop solar energy projects
