Rebates or Incentives are available from many Governments and States worldwide to help reduce the cost of your solar installation and that includes Rebates for solar hot water. Solar Hot Water is probably overall the best solar installation that everybody should consider. Typical households can save up to 75% of their water heating costs and depending on usage and location [...]

Big Brothers Home Energy Saving or Forced Encouragement. The European Union has banned the production and import of the 100 watt incandescent light bulb in a bid to force renewable energy. For over 100 years the incandescent light bulb has burned bright ever since Thomas Edison Joseph Swan invented the the power inefficient device. These electric bulbs can only convert [...]

Installing a solar system in your property will no doubt help you save money on your energy bills. Whether it is a Solar Hot water system or Photovoltaic system for electrical generation you reduce or even eliminate those energy costs. A beneficial effect of your incite in to green energy is the fact that it can also increase the value [...]

An offshoot of home solar energy is a system designed to provide backup power for your residence when the grid goes down. Providing backup power with a solar generator is a catchy clean idea to replace noisy gas powered generators. At the time of writing forest fires are racing across California and this is going to cause power outages in [...]

The price of photovoltaic solar panels has always been a large hurdle for anyone thinking about converting to solar energy. Both for commercial applications and home owners this could be soon a thing of the past. As large scare production starts to take off there have been excess and lack of demand and scarcity of raw material which has made [...]

Think of generating energy in your home and you will most likely imagine solar panels, Large rectangular shiny plates adorning your roof. For some residences this might be unsightly and dissuade you from the idea of installing photovoltaic solar panels in your home. If you could just make them fit in more with the look and style them maybe you [...]

LED technology for lighting is still in its infancy and has a little way to progress to compete with conventional incandescent light bulbs. Although LED Lighting has made inroads with decorative lighting due to its low power consumption and versatility, Illumination is still on the horizon but getting closer. Hydralux is a LED Light that takes this technology a step [...]

Solar Power systems without a doubt are a fabulous environmentally way to save money on your energy costs, Although the initial upfront prices are sometimes quite high and a lot of people like yourself may feel that this is too much to pay and decide to put the idea off for another day. A San Fransisco company has realized this [...]

What is Solar Energy? With all this talk about solar energy, photvoltaic panels and thermal energy, it might be time to take a short step back and think about what exactly is solar energy? Without getting all too scientific, it all starts in that big yellow ball in the sky we see in the daytime,  The sun or Sol to [...]

Solar hot water is nothing new. In the 1920`s southern USA, solar hot water panels were popular, but as the push for electricity and gas heated water rose the technology began to lose its appeal. From around the middle of the last century, solar hot water has started to boil again around the world and now is becoming extremely popular [...]