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Palm Desert releases details of energy loan program
The Desert Sun (August 25,2008)
Palm Desert becomes one of the first cities to look at taking advantage of a new California law, AB 811. Residents and business owners can receive low interest loans for rooftop solar, and pay them back through the property tax system.
Think globally, generate locally
Desert Protective Council (July 30, 2008)
Larry Hogue cites the recent developments in thin film PV rooftop solar, and how preferable this technology is over Big Solar Thermal.
PV vs. Solar Thermal
Business & Money (July 2008)
Authors Lesser and Puga provide a comparative economic analysis that debunks concentrated solar thermal's (CST)claims to be less costly than photovoltaic (PV) solar technologies. Their analysis shows distributed PV generation is more cost effective especially when all CST's hidden life-cycle costs are exposed and compared to PV's.
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UTILITIES: The new local power plant just might be your house
Greenwire (October 7, 2008)
The benefits of locally generated and distributed energy are explained in this very
comprehensive article. This is why we call it "The Better Way".
US’s First Feed-In-Tariff For Solar Power Could Be Adopted by Gainesville, Florida Treehugger (October 17,2008)
Finally the value of agressive feed-in-tarriffs is being realized. AREP has always made this the cornerstone of our argument for "The Better Way".
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by Carol A. Overland