South Coast Solar

Are you looking for new ways to implement green initiatives on gameday? Are you looking for new ways to power mobile vehicle units?

BATON ROUGE — As Louisiana’s largest solar energy company, South Coast Solar and LSU Athletics have teamed to “Go Green.” On football game days, South Coast Solar powers Tiger One, the unique mobile entertainment unit located in Zatarain’s Tiger One Village.

Gathered on a platform next to the roof of one of the two-story single-family homes in the Lower 9th Ward, onlookers watched as installers with South Coast Solar of New Orleans mounted a set of photovoltaic panels onto a metal roof.

Just last week, One Block off the Grid (1BOG), the nation’s top consumer advocacy group for residential renewable energy, and New Orleans-based South Coast Solar, Louisiana’s largest solar energy company, announced that the Metro New Orleans area will be the program’s first official city outside of California for its groundbreaking new solar community purchasing program.

While solar panels in New Orleans are a relatively new idea because of our recent state and federal tax credits, solar technology and the photovoltaic (PV) effect have actually been around for a long time.  Below is a brief history of solar, and how we got to where we are today!

Marcelo da Luz gave up his job, girlfriend and nearly a half-million dollars to build a solar-powered car and drive it all over the Americas, a trek that brought him and several international volunteers, following in a van, to New Orleans early Sunday evening.But an hour after he parked on a busy, well-lighted French Quarter [...]

Officials from New Orleans want incentives similar to those that lured Sylvester Stallone to Louisiana to make his next action feature film offered to the state’s renewable energy industry, which they say could be the next economic blockbuster.

Check us out on The Weather Channel.  It’s all about New Orleans’ Green Renaissance!

Recently on WWL 870 AM in New Orleans, host Garland Robinette discussed and cleared up with the help of a panel of guests some questions that have arisen concerning Louisiana’s 50% residential refundable solar tax credit. Multiple Systems Are Covered Under Louisiana’s Solar Tax Credits–50% Of The Total Cost…Not Capped At $12,500

Here’s some news to brighten your Friday! Proposed new coal plants have been dropping like flies over the past month, and yet another one bites the dust today, this time in Nevada. Citing strong local opposition and increased certainty that global warming pollution from coal plants will be regulated, energy developer, LS Power announced [...]