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Builders catching on to the appeal of solar-powered homes

2013-06-06 12:24:00

With demand for energy-efficient homes surging in Southern California, home builders are producing more houses with rooftop solar power systems than ever before. About 4,000 new homes were built with a rooftop solar power system last year in...

San Francisco: Exploratorium set to reopen at triple the size

2013-04-11 07:00:00

The wait is almost over. The Exploratorium, which spent its first 44 years in a dim exhibit hall at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, will reopen Wednesday (April 17) in a new, light-filled home on the Embarcadero. The self-described 21st century...

Honda and SolarCity offer a home discount for going green

2013-02-26 09:39:00

Buy a new Honda Fit EV or Accord Plug-In Hybrid and get a big discount on a solar power installation at your home. Or don’t buy a new one; just prove you own a Honda generator or show up at a dealership with the paperwork for your rusting, 1970s-...

SunPower, solar stocks surge after Warren Buffett buys Calif. plants

2013-01-03 10:54:00

Solar stocks were burning up Thursday, led by a 41% share price boom for SunPower, which this week said it sold a pair of massive Southern California solar power plants to a Warren Buffett company. San Jose-based SunPower said in a filing with the...

McManus: Lies, damned lies and political advertising

2012-05-13 00:00:00

The television commercial is designed to spark outrage. "Billions of taxpayer dollars spent on green energy went to jobs in foreign countries," it intones. "The Obama administration admitted the truth — that $2.3 billion of tax credits went...

Fastest-growing industries: Yoga studios, solar panels, hot sauce

2012-04-18 11:13:00

Smartphones, burgers and oil wells may be big moneymakers, but they can’t compete when it comes to speed of expansion. The fastest-growing industries in the U.S. actually involve 3-D printers, solar panels, self-tanning products, Pilates and...

Quechan tribe sues to stop Imperial Valley Solar Project

2010-11-04 16:34:47

NRG Solar and SunPower to start building San Luis Obispo solar project next year

2010-11-30 16:34:21

Solar panel manufacturing and disposal -- is it green and safe?

2011-04-05 16:33:55

California renewable energy gets major boost in new law

2011-04-12 16:34:12

San Luis Obispo solar project to start construction next year

2010-11-30 16:33:01

More sun power for Southern California Edison

2011-01-10 16:34:11

MidAmerican Solar acquired a 579-megawatt pair of solar projects from SunPower.

2013-01-03 10:43:05

Back at Santa Monica Airport, DeStaffany and I posed for a final shot before she left for her second job, selling SunPower solar panels to "make up for all the gas I burn in the air.

2008-03-19 10:32:27