Solar Power for California
California Solar choices is designed to provide you with information, advice, tools and resources for installing solar power systems in your California home. This includes information on solar electric power, solar water heating and the financial incentives and rebates in place to help you afford to install solar power in your home of business.
California Homeowners are increasingly opting to install solar power systems in their homes as a way to avoid the high cost (and going higher) of energy.
Solar power provides several advantages to the California homeowner. Here are 10 reasons to install solar power in your home and business:
- Solar Electric power is reliable
- Solar Electric power is Pollution free
- Solar Electric power uses a renewable source of energy - You have it whenever the sun is shining.
- Solar Electric power systems produce no noise.
- Solar Electric power systems have no moving parts, which means minimal maintenance
- Solar Electric power systems never run out of fuel when the sun is out.
- Solar Electric power contributes to energy independence, both for you and the country.
- Solar Electric power is good for the economy, because it reduces the trade deficit since many components are produced in the United States.
- Solar Electric power systems provide you with the safety and security that comes with having your own back-up power system.
- Solar Electric power will save you money.
If you have a home or business it's the perfect time to explore solar power. It's good for you, good for your bottom line and good for the earth.
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Solar Industry News affecting California and the world
- SoCal farmers angry about proposed power line path - Growers and ranchers in the southern reaches of California are posing the latest obstacle to the state's push for green power.
- Solar Concentrating systems - Increased efficiencies- These highly efficient triple-junction, or III-V cells, use one-thousandth of the material in a standard solar cell and are more than twice as efficient. Typical silicon solar cells convert light into energy with a 13 percent to 18 percent efficiency ratio. SolFocus' CPV cells average 40 percent efficiency.
- UCSD installs Solar Trees - Each solar tree at UCSD will generate more than 17,000 hours of energy per year; enough to power more than four single-family homes; and avoid 13.2 metric tons of carbon emissions.
- U.S. pledges aid in making San Diego shine in solar-powered program - The U.S. Department of Energy yesterday pledged nearly $500,000 in grants and technical assistance to San Diego as part of an effort to make the city a national model for solar power production.