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Articles, Tables, and Commentary on Solar Energy
General Solar Commentary
- Energy Self-Reliant States--a Review--is another valuable tool for renewable energy advocates in building a case that "yes, even the US can" move to renewables--and the sooner the better. . .
- SEMIconductor Manufacturers: FITs Best for Solar PV--The world's semiconductor manufacturers have now waded in with another of a cavalcade of recent reports on why feed-in tariffs are best for spurring investment and innovation in renewable energy. . .
- Sarnia Solar PV Farm--On a recent trip across Ontario to Indiana, I stopped by Sarnia to take some pictures of the large solar PV farm being installed outside town. When completed it will be one of the largest in North America. . .
- Solar PV DC Converstion to AC kW--Most contracts for solar PV, such as those under Ontario's Standard Offer Contract program and its new Feed-in Tariff program, are written in terms of AC kilowatts (kWAC). . .
- Tracking the Sun: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the US in 1998-2007 by Ryan Wiser, LBNL
- Barcelona's Solar Pergola--Barcelona's 444 kW Pergola solar del Forum was inaugurated May 4, 2009 at the site of Barcelona's World Forum of Culture. . .
- Mike Brigham's Freiburg Solar Tour (photos of Freiburg's Solar Siedlung, Vauban, Helotrope and others)
- Lehr Brothers' 119 kW Solar PV Plant in Edison California
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Residential solar PV, Freiburg, Germany.
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- The Ontario Solar Initiative: 1,000 MW Solar PV by 2017
- Solar Without Limits: Breaking Free from Net Metering
- South Australia Weighs Timid Solar Tariff
- Reuters: Cloudy Germany unlikely hotspot for solar power
- Italy Launches New Solar PV Tariffs
- New Solar Energy Tariffs in Spain
- OSEA SOC Program Solar Tariff Revisions.pps
- The Aachen Solar Tariff Model
- Ontario's Solar PV Tariff Price Setting
- Links to Real Time Solar Generation
- Germany Installed 1,150 MW of Photovoltaics in 2006 Says Magazine
- Brief Summary of World Solar PV Market Stats 2006
- Dardesheim: Germany's Renewable Energy Town
- The Potential of Solar PV in Ontario, CanSIA, January, 2006
- Solar for Energy Hogs: The California Example by Steven Letendre, Prometheus Institute
- Strom Rebels of Schönau: The Village That Built Their Own Solar Utility
- Josef Pesch-Strom Rebel of Freiburg
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Truck stop solar. Solar PV on tracker at a Shell truck stop near Herbolzheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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- Photon Magazine's Model Solar Photovoltaics Contract under Germany's EEG
- Experience with the German Performance-Based Incentive Program by Gerhard Stryi-Hipp 2004
- The Experience of Germany with Photovoltaic Incentives by Christof Stein, BMFU 2004
- The
Effect of the EEG on Photovoltaic Development in Germany by Gerhard
Stryi-Hipp, German Solar Industry Association/Bundesverband
Solarindustie (BSi) 2004
- German Solar Rate of Return 2006
- German Solar PV for Free Says Walter Fischer
- Fesa B31 Solar Bürgerbeteiligung (Investment)
- Freiburg's Solar Siedlung
General Solar Tables
California Solar Tables and Commentary
SolarShare Tables & Charts
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