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Solar Power: Home Solar Power and the Challenge of Change
Home Solar Power and the Challenge of Change
Imagine it’s 100 years ago. 1908. You’re starting an ice cream
business. You plan to illuminate your new factory with gas lamps; store
the ice cream in ice boxes, and deliver it to stores with a fleet of
sparkling new horse-drawn buggies.
To process orders faster than the
competition, you will employ a flock of carrier pigeons to speed
messages from stores to your factory and back.
Your young plant manager says, “Let’s use this new thing - -
electricity - - to light the factory and to power this other new
technology called “refrigeration”. Let’s buy horseless carriages
powered by gasoline to deliver the goods. Let’s get one of these
“telephone” things - - soon everyone will have them - - and take orders
at the speed of sound.”
Home solar power and alternative energy offers us new clean ways to power our world.
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Posted by solarman on Sunday, September 07 @ 15:04:58 CDT (30 reads)
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Solar Power: HOME SOLAR POWER PRICES SET TO PLUMMET
HOME SOLAR POWER PRICES CONTINUE TO FALL
Solar photovoltaics have their challenges, from shortages of silicon to the sheer cost of purchasing and installing solar panels, but a new report from the Prometheus Institute
says that both these problems will be addressed over the next few
years, leading to cheaper solar and an abundance of capacity to produce.
Any news that solar is becoming more affordable is great as it will
encourage more individuals to install them at home, and businesses to
do likewise, either to offset their electricity consumption or
installing them in a for-profit initiative.
The report, however, also
highlights an interesting figure - and companies
who are currently building silicon-producing facilities that will come
online in the next couple of years, should pay attention:
The current
global production capacity for silicon and thin-film panels is around
3.14 gigawatts, but will hit 12.36 gigawatts in 2010. That's an
increase of just under 400%, an enormous amount that is sure to be
welcomed by the environmental community.
The demand, however, is only
expected to be 6.76 gigawatts, up from 2.94 gigawatts in 2007, leaving
over 5 gigawatts of unused capacity. Hopefully this will drive prices
further down, resulting in greater demand, but this may have already
been reflected in the statistics.
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Posted by solarman on Saturday, June 14 @ 11:02:56 CDT (66 reads)
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Solar Power: HOME SOLAR POWER TO BECOME LESS EXPENSIVE
HOME SOLAR POWER TO BECOME LESS EXPENSIVE IN CALIFORNIA
California residents may soon benefit from lower-cost solar power, according to state Assemblyman Mark Leno.
Leno, D-San Francisco, has
authored a law designed to offer solar power to property owners and
tenants at prices currently reserved for businesses, through power
purchase agreements.
Leno said the power purchase
agreements would “deliver clean, renewable solar power at a price that
is lower than the electric utility” to residents that “have largely
been left out of this innovative solar financing mechanism.”
The agreements, whereby a
company would own, install and maintain the solar installations, have
been responsible for more than 70 percent of commercial solar
installations in California, according to Leno’s office.
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Posted by solarman on Monday, June 02 @ 14:57:34 CDT (59 reads)
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Past Articles
| Wednesday, May 14 | | · | HOME SOLAR POWER HELP |
| Tuesday, April 15 | | · | SOLAR CITY OFFERING HOME SOLAR POWER FREE TO SAN JOSE RESIDENTS |
| Wednesday, April 02 | | · | HOME SOLAR POWER FINANCING JUST GOT EASIER |
| Tuesday, March 04 | | · | BOOST HOME VALUE AND LOWER YOUR ELECTRIC BILL |
| Friday, February 01 | | · | GREEN ENERGY INDUSTRY IS TAKING OFF IN CALIFORNIA |
| Sunday, January 20 | | · | ALTERNATIVE ENERGY MAY FUEL MICHIGAN'S ECONOMY |
| Monday, December 31 | | · | THIN FILM SOLAR PANELS READY TO GO |
| Saturday, December 22 | | · | SOLAR POWER WILL SOON BE CHEAPER THAN COAL |
| Tuesday, December 11 | | · | SOLAR POWER NOW WITHIN REACH OF MORE HOMEOWNERS |
| Sunday, December 09 | | · | GOOGLE TRYING TO MAKE SOLAR POWER CHEAPER THAN COAL |
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