One of the ways to slow the advance of climate change is to reduce your personal carbon usage. While we can’t efficiency our way to climate neutrality, we can buy ourselves time by slowing the rate of carbon emissions and conservation, as Negawatts are often the cheapest form of clean … [continued]
Installing a solar diverter can essentially help convert a home’s hot water heater into an energy storage system, allowing solar homeowners increase their self-consumption during peak production hours.
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath One out of every five Australian households are turning to solar energy for their electricity or hot water, new data has reveled. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that its latest figures show that 19 per cent of households nationally now currently either … [continued]
If you were asked whether solar hot water systems or solar PV systems were more economical at heating water, what would you say? Your first guess would probably be that solar hot water systems were more economical, right? Well, it turns out that maybe they aren’t (most of the time, anyways), … [continued]
Originally published on Green Building Elements. Thanks to John Perlin for providing GBE with this intro to his book on the history of solar energy. We published information about this book on October 4, concluding that we would provide an introduction from Perlin today for the book. I believe anybody who is interested … [continued]
The southernmost state of India, Tamil Nadu, is aiming to develop 3,000 MW of solar by 2015. A new energy policy would require all industries to have solar hot water heaters to replace ones currently using fossil fuels. (Note: about 90% of Israeli homes have solar hot water heaters.) Solar … [continued]
Happy campers abound now that a solar hot water system has been constructed on the roof of Recreation Park’s new shower house in Grand Marais, MN! Don Grant, a leader of the project explains: “The panels have eliminated complaints about losing hot water in the bathhouse. In the past, … [continued]
If you want to increase the financial efficiency of your home and lower your carbon footprint simultaneously, introducing solar technology can help you achieve this. Finding the best solar solution for your home can seem a little daunting, but I think these tips below will help you to pick the best … [continued]
Some more cool cleantech consumer products or news about consumer products: SunPower has released an AC solar panel series that is “designed to bring clean solar power to homes that have energy production challenges, such as shading, less-than-perfect orientation or irregular rooflines.” A year-long UK study, “the largest ever … [continued]
Along with cleantech politics news and other cleantech news from the past week or so, here’s some news on wind and solar energy that we haven’t covered. Ted Turner’s Solar Plant Begins Commercial Operation Founder of CNN Ted Turner has announced that the 30-MW solar power plant developed and built … [continued]
