Solar Home Design Articles

Solar Home Design - An Overview of the first steps you need to do before installing a solar system in your home.

Passive Solar Home Designs - This article explains how to make passive solar energy work in your home.

Residential Hot Water System - Traditional hot water systems and how to make them more efficient with and without solar power.

Home Solar Hot Water Systems - some of the things you need to think about before putting a solar hot water system in your home.

Building Integrated Photovoltaics - How new innovations of PV cell technology are making solar panels more aesthetically pleasing.

Grid Tie In Solar Systems - Advantages and disadvantages of a grid tie solar system for home solar power.

Off The Grid Solar Power System - Why to go off the grid and some of the components that you need for energy self sufficiency.

Home Solar Power - Two ways that you can get a cheap (or cheaper) solar power system in your home.

Solar Power For Home Use - New designs of PV cells allow new homes to have solar power without looking like they have solar panels.

Solar Power Kits for the Home - How solar power kits can provide for your energy needs, including other forma of renewable energy systems too.

	Solar power incentives lose their shine Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:55:57 -0800 The fledgling industry has been flourishing, but the halving of government subsidies has thrown it into confusion, reports Iain Hollingshead.
	BrightSource Energy’s Power Tower Technology Selected by Sasol for South African Solar Power Plant Design Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0800 OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESSWIRE)-- BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, today announced that Sasol has selected BrightSource’s power tower solar thermal technology following ...
	VTA Installs Solar Power Systems at Its Three Bus Yards Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:00:00 -0800 SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), in partnership with SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR - News), Joint Venture Silicon Valley, and Wells Fargo, installed ...
	Scam stink in solar mission Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:00:00 -0800 "A huge amount of public money will be spent on the solar mission in subsidising solar power," Bhushan said. "We want the solar mission to work and expand, but with more transparency and greater public scrutiny."
	Taiwan Stocks: Inotera Memories, Nanya Tech, Neo-Solar Power Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:56:38 -0800 Shares of the following companies had unusual moves in Taiwan trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are as of the close in Taipei.