Nonprofit Installs Solar Panels on Roofs of Lower-Income Households — Free

By: Mary Hui Twane Turnage and Anthony Garner stood at the bottom of a bright orange ladder and carefully guided a solar panel with hooks and ropes attached along the ladder rails toward a pitched roof. “Pull!” hollered Turnage, 18. “Pull!” echoed Garner, 21. Above them, their colleagues peered over the edge of the roof, […]

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Solar Panels Innovation Gives Round-The-Clock Power Without Pricey Battery Storage

By Kathryn Diss Imagine if energy from your solar panels could give you hot water around the clock without the need to buy an expensive battery storage unit. That concept is already a reality, with cost-cutting energy devices which leverage the power of “big data” helping households get more out of their solar panels by effectively […]

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North America’s First Solar Powered Sidewalk Installed at TRU

By: Vanessa Ybarra KAMLOOPS — Two years into the making, a solar electric road surface was installed at Thompson Rivers University this week. The project is the brainchild of an Environmental Studies professor at the University and is being touted as the first of its kind in North America. It isn’t your average electrical job. TRU Geography […]

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How Solar Windows Could Put Transparent Panels Everywhere

“Solar window” sounds like an oxymoron. Here’s how it could actually work. By: Avery Thompson As we move away from fossil fuels like coal and gas as sources of energy, one of the better ways to produce power is by harvesting light from the sun. Solar panels are rapidly becoming cheaper and more efficient, and […]

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Solar Heating Could Provide More Than 80% Of Heating Energy For Households In Finland

By: James Ayer Up to around ~80% of the heating energy needed for Finnish households could be met through the use of solar energy, depending upon the method of technical implementation, according to a new study from Aalto University. To be more specific, the study found that solar energy could be used to cover between […]

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