
SOLAR 2013 kicked off this morning in Baltimore with nine tracks of parallel sessions that included a forum about the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s JEDI models. JEDI, which stands for Jobs and Economic Development Impact, is a series of free online calculators for estimating employment and other impacts that result from investment in new power generation or fuel production.

Gathering for their 58th annual Solar Energy Conference, ASES members honored their most inspiring leaders tonight at a gala awards banquet.

SOLAR TODAY‘s April issue is online. Read the full issue, search by key word and share articles. Click here to go directly to the issue. ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS Rethinking Solar Water Heating in an Age of Booming PV SWH could relieve utility stress about the challenges of integrating so much PV, so fast. By Jill K. Cliburn [...]

Clean Power Finance (CPF), the online marketplace for residential solar financing and leading provider of solar sales software, today announced partnerships with Roof Diagnostics Inc. and Trinity Solar. Over the next few months, the new partnerships will expand the range of residential solar financing options available to installers in Connecticut, Maryland and New York. CPF [...]

The PV Power Map is a report of national solar resource availability as illustrated by the monthly energy output of a nominal 1-kilowatt (kW) photovoltaic (PV) system by location. As illustrated by the map, much of the Western United States experienced warm and dry weather conditions, which facilitated average-to-above average solar energy production.