The Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit (ITC for short) has passed, and better, it’s been renewed until 2016, and they increased the caps on how much you can claim for the credit. This is great news, but especially for solar energy as dozens of very large products were waiting to see if that went [...]

Just an FYI to those that are interested, the new images on our web site are also available on our Flickr page.  There are a couple there that are available in higher resolution than on our web page as well, and as we develop the prototype, we’ll be adding images as well.

We just issued the following Press Release (PDF file download). Please feel free to download and distribute this file freely.

There’s a really great article on the Sun Simba HCPV up on Greentech Media. They cover the basics of what makes it such a great system, they explain the advantages of the thinness and the staggered rows, and have a great photo gallery at the end of the article. If you’re at all [...]

Ok, we weren’t expecting to end up on the main page of Digg, and definitely not this early in our product development.  We’re in the prototype phase right now, and we won’t have panels for sale for about a year (sooner possibly, but some of the time lines depend on certification processes over which we [...]

We’ve had an interesting week on many levels, but the biggest item is that we’ve finalized the location and host for our demonstration site and it’s WAY cooler than we were originally planning. Basically, the demonstration site is perfect in just about every way it could be, and we’re going to be mounting the [...]

We’re pretty close to releasing the full specifications and images for the Sun Simba HCPV system, and will be uploading images here and on the website fairly soon.  We’re putting together the final details of the spec sheet right now, and are looking forward to having the working demonstration system available in September.
The Sun Simba [...]

This week, a couple of people have asked why there’s not much on the website about our actual products. There will be, and soon too. But there are a couple of reasons we’re being vague.
First off, the reason we’re not formally announcing anything concrete or specific yet is that we’re sorting out some final patent [...]

Here’s part two of my wrap up of Intersolar North America 2008. Obviously, this doesn’t even scratch the surface of what was covered at the conference, but these were some of the things that stuck out in my mind. Also, I haven’t added anything about the exhibition - I spend quite a bit [...]

This turned into a longer post, so I’ve cut it in two. The second part will come out tomorrow.
The organizers did an excellent job of putting together the conference, and the quality of the speakers was outstanding. In particular, Travis Bradford of the Prometheus Institute, Hal LaFlash from PG&E and Dr. Fred Morse [...]