 Solar-energy customers hope to receive credit on power bill
(Orlando Sentinel: Sat, 01 Mar) Next week's vote will determine whether they can sell surplus energy to utility companies. Florida's solar-energy advocates are eagerly awaiting a state Public Service Commission vote next week on rules that would require electric utilities to buy power at market rates from customers who install solar-generating systems.
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 JAMES DULLEY: Solar water heater saves energy, money
(Detroit Free Press: Sun, 02 Mar) Dear Jim: My children and I want to become greener. Using a solar water heater seems to make the most sense. I don't have much money for one. How can we build one ourselves? -- Pat F.
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 Solar energy could be answer to rising energy costs
(WWL-TV, Channel 4 New Orleans: Sat, 01 Mar) If you feel like your electric bill just keeps rising, then the idea of solar energy might be your answer. For years, the problem for consumers was the initial cost for the alternative energy source. But New Orleanians now have an opportunity to go green and save money.
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 Solar cell makers aggressively expand capacity with growing obstacles in fund raising
(Digi Times: Mon, 03 Mar) Despite the consistent shortage of polysilcion, robust demand for solar power has prompted leading solar cell makers in Taiwan to plan for aggressive capacity expansion in 2008. While the solar energy market still seems to be bullish from demand from an end market point of view, industry players observe more obstacles from fund raising as investors are becoming more cautious.
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 AZ legislators push solar-energy bills
(Arizona Daily Star: Sun, 02 Mar) As Arizona looks to tap more of its most abundant resource, sunshine, state lawmakers want to help make that happen by creating tax breaks for power plant builders and helping homeowners, businesses and schools convert to solar power.
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 Oil giant Saudi to become solar power centre: minister
(AFP via Yahoo! News: Sat, 01 Mar) Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, plans to become an expert in another, cleaner field of energy by investing in solar power, the country's oil minister said in an interview released Sunday.
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Greener Green Energy: Today's solar cells give more than they take
Initiative would force utilities to increase renewable energy
