Solar Blog: June 2015

World leaders are coming together to find solutions to the climate change dilemma. This was the case when President Barack Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff announced their joint plans to triple the amount of renewable energy in electricity generation to 20 percent by 2030.

Deployment of renewable energy has been consistently on the rise — reaching its highest level in around 70 years.

Solar Impulse 2, a solar-powered plane created by Solar Impulse, the Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, is poised to break records for the longest-duration solo flight and the longest distance flown by an entirely solar-powered aircraft, as reported by The Washington Post. Co-founder and pilot Bertrand Piccard and

This past Earth Day, Allied Printing Services, a Northeastern print company installed 4,591 solar panels on single roof of its 275,000-square-foot facility in Manchester, Connecticut. After three months of work, the project was completed this past week, as reported by Fox CT. The 1.

If you are one of the many Americans who has decided to pursue solar energy to save money each month and help the environment, yet have not yet decided whether to lease or to buy your solar panels, choosing to lease or to buy solar panels is a difficult one, so here are a few thoughts to consider when making the choice for your home. Recently, solar leases have

In the past few years, terms like "going green" and "eco-friendly" have integrated and normalized themselves into modern culture. Quite literally, eco-friendly means to be friendly to the environment through sustainable living practices.

Solar installations are on the rise across the globe. Residential installations are growing exponentially, but one typically overlooked portion of the solar movement is community solar farms.

A new survey by Wiser Capital, a financial services firm, states that many large investment companies are planning to utilize solar in the next five years. Throughout the course of the survey, Wiser Capital received responses from 100 representatives of these firms from around the nation.

Renewable energy is still on the rise and in the minds of more and more people around the United States.

West Virginia is typically known for its long history of coal mining — 95 percent of the state's energy came from coal plants last year.