SAN DIEGO — The United States is poised to become the world’s largest user of solar power in the next decade, experts say, thanks in part to Silicon Valley innovation and the country’s vast land area and amount of sunshine.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 8:39 pm and is filed under Solar In the News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Yesterday, in addition to passing the once-doomed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, otherwise known as “the bailout,” the Senate and House did a very good thing: Lawmakers extended and modified the federal investment tax credit for residential and commercial solar energy development.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, October 4th, 2008 at 7:17 am and is filed under Solar In the News, Solar Tax Credits . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

New Homes With SunPower Solar Panel Systems are Bright Spot in Market
New Homes with Solar Selling Twice as Fast; 92 Percent of Homeowners Would Recommend a Solar Home

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This entry was posted on Sunday, August 17th, 2008 at 8:15 am and is filed under Green Products . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.