 NJ Encouraging More Solar Power Use
(AP via Yahoo! Finance: Wed, 12 Sep) The Garden State, already a national leader in solar energy, is expected to see the amount of energy garnered from the sun increase dramatically between now and 2020 under a program approved Wednesday by utilities regulators.
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 Officials approve solar
(The Star-Ledger: Thu, 13 Sep) The state yesterday adopted a new system for promoting solar energy, with the aim of having at least 2 percent of the electricity consumed in New Jersey coming from solar panels by 2020.
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 Solar energy will fit Costco's energy bill
(Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Wed, 12 Sep) Costco is going solar in Hawaii. Costco Wholesale Corp. has chosen its Big Island store for the company's first solar-electric power system.
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 Solar energy systems growing more popular in Ahwatukee
(The Arizona Republic: Tue, 11 Sep) Solar panels were installed at the popular park-and-ride lot at Pecos Road and 40th Street more than 10 years ago. This year, the renewable energy source hit the gymnasium roof at the Pecos Community Center
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 Solar panels power renewable energy tour
(Daily Herald: Wed, 12 Sep) At a recent downtown Palatine Farmers Market, something stood out against the usual produce, fresh baked bread and flowers. It was a giant, solar-paneled bus anchoring one end of the market.
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 Lake County signs agreement with SunPower for solar
(The Lake County Record-Bee: Thu, 13 Sep) LAKEPORT The county Board of Supervisors signed an agreement with SunPower Corporation Tuesday for solar energy at the Lake County Jail, as well as its Northwest and Southeast treatment plants.
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 Solar, wind power could soon run cars, light up homes
(IBN via Yahoo! India News: Wed, 12 Sep) But what about looking beyond nuclear energy as well? What prevents power generated by wind or solar energy from running our cars, and lighting our homes? It’s the gaps in research and lack of incentives to the manufacturing sector that’s responsible, according to the industry.
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 Solar Cookers, Efficient Stoves Help Rural Families Worldwide
(U.S. Department of State: Wed, 12 Sep) The use of technologies that combine solar power and energy efficiency is helping a growing segment of the more than 3 billion people in the developing world who burn traditional biomass fuels -- including wood and animal dung -- indoors for cooking and heating. The current cooking practice, according to the World Health Organization, traps high levels of pollutants in living areas and causes 1.6 ...
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