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Federal Tax Credits for Solar Water Heaters

What you need to know about getting your federal tax credit for your solar water heater:

The federal tax credit is 30% of the cost of the equipment.
All ENERGY STAR solar water heaters qualify for the federal tax credit.
The solar water heater must be in service (in use) before December 31, 2016.

According to Energy Star Government Tax [...]

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Build Your Own Solar Water Heater

While a 100% solar powered house may be out of the question at this time, one of the best places to start to save money is with a solar water heater.
Heating water for showers, baths, the dishwasher, or other uses is one of the biggest contributors to our monthly electric bills.  In fact, according to [...]

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From the Sun to Solar Energy: Solar Cells

The first thing to know is that solar cells directly convert the sun’s energy into electricity.  That may sound easy enough, but what makes solar cells work?
There are a few words we need to know to get started.

Solar cells are photovolatic cells.
Modules are a group of photovolaic cells.

Taking apart the word photovoltaic, we see photo [...]

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New Innovations in PV Cells from Ascent Solar

Photovoltaic (PV) cells were invented 50 years ago.  Yet, within the 50 years solar energy is still more costly than fuel created from fossil fuels.
One of the companies expecting to benefit from the 2009 stimulus package is Ascent Solar.  In the works at Ascent Solar is a plastic film coated with thin-film PV to turn natural [...]

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Guide to Solar Lights

If you are looking for high quality solar lights, check out Guide to Solar Lights.  Although it is a relatively new site, there are already a few good reviews on solar lights for exterior use.  The guide tells us that we get what we pay for.  With solar lights, we do.
I have contacted the site [...]

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Solar Panels for the New Year

Hi!
We want to say happy new year.  For anybody who doesn’t know about us we are the kids in the neighborhood according to Happy and Maya.  There are 10 of us most of the time who hang out at Happy’s or Maya’s.  Maya and Happy think they are old but we know they are the [...]

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Innovation!

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DIY Solar Panels

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What Affects Solar Panel Costs

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