Californians have sent nearly 60,000 messages asking the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to ensure continued access to the state’s net metering program. That’s pretty impressive for a wonky policy that rarely sees the light of day outside of regulatory proceedings and hearing rooms. Read More: 60,000 Californians Urge CPUC Action on Net Metering

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A beautiful time-lapse video taken by a math instructor in Redding, California of yesterday’s solar eclipse. Read More: Incredible Video of Solar Eclipse Reveals Details of the Sun

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The deepest partial solar eclipse in a generation is headed to Southern California this weekend. What’s the best way to view it? Where are the best places to go? Check out this Q&A below. Read More: Solar eclipse 2012: The best place to view it in California?

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Free Hot Water often highlights California’s generous subsidies for solar hot water installations, but it’s not the only state committed to solar water heating. Arizona’s utilities all offer different — but valuable — solar hot water incentives for both residential and commercial installations. Of course, these are Read More: A Review of Arizona’s Generous Utility […]

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Emerging Australian company CBD Energy has an agreement in place to acquire California-based Westinghouse Solar in an all-stock deal that will give the company better access to the growing American solar market. Read More: Australia’s CBD Acquires Westinghouse Solar; CEO Out

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As California pushes the leading edge of renewable energy adoption in the United States, it’s also approaching new legal hurdles that are slowly beginning to define the roles that solar developers and utilities will play in the year ahead. Read More: From Deserts to Rooftops: Solar’s California Battleground

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When California funded the CSI Solar Thermal program in 2010, part of the funding included a carve-out for marketing the program and educating the public about solar hot water’s benefits to consumers and businesses. That public awareness program finally launched on Earth Day. The first step was a media release that outlines the CSI Thermal […]

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The good people at the Vote Solar Initiative and SEIA need about a minute of your time, and believe me, that minute will be well spent. If you already know about California’s net-metering ticking clock, just click here now before it’s too late. If you don’t know what’s happening, read on: There’s a little solar […]

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It’s a daunting reality, yet one that’s been years in the making. And it’s a scenario that’s shaping up from the wind-swept coasts of California to the solar rooftops of New Jersey. The renewables industries — all of them — are not only approaching a subsidy cliff. They already have one foot dangling over the […]

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In November, the California Appellate Court upheld a trial court decision that homeowners improperly installed a solar energy facility on their home in contravention of the community’s covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs). As more and more single-family residences have sought to take advantage of affordable solar installations, they have been aided in their goal by […]

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