South Coast Solar

Note: South Coast Solar installed the solar panels at the picnic shelter.
City Park will open a new recreational area called the Festival Grounds.

Note: See the solar sunflowers installed by South Coast Solar at the open house on Saturday, October 6th from 10 am to noon.
A new outdoor exhibit at Lynn Meadows Discovery Center in Gulfport is a creative way to teach children about clean energy. The exhibit features a solar power system built in the shape of [...]

Solar panels are one of the most recognizable symbols of renewable energy. Arrays can serve as a form of green advertising and a source of pride for those who install them on their buildings. But what happens when solar installations and historical aesthetics collide?

Entergy New Orleans customers will see a slight increase on their power bills this fall under a plan submitted Thursday by the utility to the New Orleans City Council, which regulates Entergy’s rates.

Three New Orleans City Council members, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s economic development advisor and several local executives are in Washington today to participate in a White House forum on jobs and the economy.

Opinion piece by Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California.
More energy from the sun hits Earth in one hour than all the energy consumed on our planet in an entire year.

For decades the story of technology has been dominated, in the popular mind and to a large extent in reality, by computing and the things you can do with it. Moore’s Law — in which the price of computing power falls roughly 50 percent every 18 months — has powered an ever-expanding [...]

Though driving down the upfront costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems through the purchase of lowest cost components may seem like an obvious way to maximize the financial return of a solar project, consider focusing on the long-term return of the project rather than looking only at a short-term payback period. [...]

Sanyo and SunPower quarrel over who has the cells with the highest efficiencies
The trend toward higher PV module efficiencies was much in evidence at this year’s Intersolar Europe trade fair. Sanyo and SunPower bumped heads over who holds the record for crystalline silicon cells. Though there are a number of different [...]