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INFORMATION
Agrivoltaics See Farms – Heat & Crops 23 – Agrivoltaics by Shell and BP 23 – US Ag-tech 23 – Thin-film solar 23 – Site Study Minnesota 24 – Higher Levels of Insects 24 – Agrivoltaic Juggernaut 24 – Vertical Agrivoltaics Animal Grazing 24 – Ocean in Asia 24 – Helping Insects 24 – Sheep 24 – Vertical Agrivoltaics 24 – Improved Grass & PV Sheep 24 –Tour of Agrisolar in MA 24 – Finicky Farm 24 – For Large Animals 24 – Opponents of PV 24 – Agrivoltaics and Ecovoltaics 24 – American Solar Grazing Association 24 – Research 24
Agrivoltaics in Western MA – Czajkowski Farm 24 – UMass South Deerfield Pilot Project 24 – Five Agrivoltaics Projects in MA 24 – Farmers & PV 24 – Finicky Farm Northfield Ma (Panels at Hampshire Mall) 24
Airport Sites – More – More 21
Air Quality Discover Earth 23 – Aerosols From Wildfires Slash North American Solar Production 24
Alexi Arango’s Potwine House Blog
American Council for an Eneergy-Efficient Economy
American Solar Grazing Association 23
Architectural Solar Association
Artificial photosynthesis 21 – More
Battery – See Storage
Biden–Harris Administration: $56 Million for PV 22
Boats – Cruises All Day 22
Building Integrated PV (Shingles and Walls) – Building-integrated PV & Fire Safety 23 wrestling growing can you drive
Canals PV Covered – More 22 – More 22 – More 22 – Naxus 22 – PV on Canals 22 – Canals & PV 22 – First Solar Covered Canal in Arizona 24 – Gila River Indian Community Solar-over-canal Profect 24
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Center for Ecological Technology (Energy Assessments)
Center for Strategic & International Studies (Energy & Sustainability)
Clean Energy Permitting, the Grid and Cost
Cleaning Panels – see Solar Panels – More – No Water 22
Cooling Panels – More – More – More – Plants – Roof – (Pre)Cooling Buildings 22
Community Solar – More – More – NY – Community Solar Guide – Community PV – Community PV in Holyoke – Community PV and Utilities – By State 22 – More 22 – Community Solar Siting 22 – DOE 22 – Low Income 22 – National Community Solar Partnership 22 – Revitalize Communities 22 – Community Solar US 22 – SolSmart 23 – Community PV on the Increase 23 – Community PV Growing 23 – Community Solar 24
Compare Prices on Solar EnergySage – Drop 2021
Cost See Solar Palels
Department of Energy – Buying green electricity
Department of Energy – Solar energy
Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Help the Grid 24 – Distributed Energy Resources & FERC Order No. 2222 – 24 – Distributed Energy Resources & Location 24
Diversity see Racism
DOER (MASS) Webinars – archives of past Webinars back to 2016
DSIRE (US Incentives)
Electricity Markets and Policy Group
Energy News – Northeast
Energy Policy Institute (University of Chicago)
Energysage (Planning & Compares Quotes)
Energy Star Info. (Incentives)
Office of Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Enphase Inverters -See Videos – Community – Enphase Control Software for Home Solar-battery 24
Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs MA
Farms and Solar See Agrivoltaics – local More – More – More – More – More – More – More – More – More – Solar on Greenhouses – More – More – More – More – More – Cost – Orchard – More – More – Bees – More – More – More – Money – MA – More – CO – More – Bees 21 – Agri-PV 21 – Indigenous 22 – Trackers 22 – Ethanol 22 – Agrivoltaic Research for Megawatt Scale DOE 22 – Sheep 22 – Broccoli, Cabbage 22 – Agrivoltaics (AG) For Bad Soil 22 – AG in Italy 22 – Agrivoltaics Evaluation 22 – New Vegetated Land Cover 22 – Land Use 22 – Partnerships NREL 22 – Dry Lands 22 – Details 22 – Agrivoltaics & Sustainable Farming 22 – Vertical Agrivoltaic & Microclimates 22 – Solar & Farms Coexist? 22 – Reduce Water Evaporation 22 – DOE 22 – Light Spectrum Optimization 23 – Colorado PV & Water 23 – Match Made In Heaven 23 – Single-axis Agrivoltaics & Non-irrigated Grassland 23 – Panels 13’ High 23 – Solar Farm Cooling 23 – Agrivoltaics Conference | Solar Farm Summit 23 – Green Roofs & Agrivoltaics 23 – Agrivoltaics & US Senate 23 – Agrivoltaics & Tracking 23 – Save Farmland From Buildings 23
Farming (Minneapolis) – Scientific American
Floating PV – Floating Solar Panels 23 – Floating Solar 23 – Floating PV Washed Up 23
Solar Options & Funding 24 – EquiSol Funding 24
Generation 180 – Info. and advocacy
Glossary of Solar Terms – Kilowatts & More
Google Project Sunroof – Solar Roof Calculator mot in all locations
Green Energy Consumers Alliance – MA All types of Energy Clean Energy Standard
Grid Adapting to Solar – More – More
Grid Alternatives – Community Installs & Training
Hail Storms Location US 22– Hail Damage – Hail US Map 24
Home Power Magazine – great on all energy topics
How to install a solar attic fan
How Much Electricity do Appliances Use
How Much Electricity do Appliances Use
How Much Electricity do Appliances Use
Hydrogen – More – More – More – More – Transport – More – More – More – More – Green
Hydrogen for the Home – More – Home – Cooking
Incentives – See Also Net Metering
Incentives – How and What – by State 2021
Incentives in Massachusetts – For Mass MLPs – More – Incentives California Leading 23
Induction cooking Pros and Cons – Consumer Reports
International Renewable Energy Agency
Inverters – micro vs string or central – Longevity – Inverter Lifespan 22 – Smart Inverters 22 – EV EV Smart Inverters NREL 22
IRS on solar and taxes – Forms – in english
ISO-New England – Power Distribution – on PV Peak Shaving – Charts
Jobs Clean Energy – EERE
Jobs Solar – By State 22 – Jobs Statistics 23
Land for PV – Land for PV NREL (Gov.) – More – Land for Cities – Land Leasing Guide for Solar – 2.8 acres for 1GWh – Landfills 21 – Land & PV 23 – Less Land 23 – Solar Over Cemetery 24
Laws See Inflation IRA in CC Links – Stretch Code Guideline 24 – Solar Tariff Problems 24 – MA Passes Pro-solar and Energy Storage Bill 24
Lets Go Solar – Good Information on the whole process
Light Solar Powered – for home use
Location See Solar Panels
Low Income PV 23 – Low-income solar 24 – Solar for All EPA 24
Luci – Solar Lights – for home use
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center – Distributes MA stare money for solar & other projects – Announcements
Mass Comprehensive Energy Plan 2019 More
Mass. Energy and Environmental Affairs
Mass. Energy Efficiency Advisory Council
Mass. Interfaith Power and Light – Renewable energy for churchs
Mass Municipal Wholesale Electric Company – Organization of Municipal Utilities
Mass Residential Guide to Solar Power – CEC
Mass Solar – general info
Municipal Light Plant Solar Rebate Program
MUNIs List & Info– municipal electric utilities – MLPs & PPAs
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Natural Resources Defense Council
Net Metering – Basics – More – More 2021 – Net Metering Debate – More – More – More – More – Ending NM OK 22 – Net Metering in S. Hadley – Net Metering MA – More – Net Zero House Rehab – More – ISO – Eversource – CA Net Metering 22 – Net Metering – Freeing the Grid – In CA – More – Benefit Alex Williams 22 – Policy Survey in CA 22 – Under Threat 22 – Net Metering ends in CA 23 – Net Metering New Hampshire 23 – Avoided-Cost Calculator in CA 23 – NM Declining 24 – Net Metering – Under Threat 24 – Net Metering – Under Threat 24
Net Zero Project Guide (Links) – Problems
Net Zero House by Alexi Arango
NESEA – NE Sustainable Energy
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
Northeast Solar Energy Market Coalition
NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Gov)
Nuclear Power and Renewables – More
Nuclear (New Smaller Plants) – First Safety Approval – Traveling Wave – Bill Gates
Off-grid World PV 22 – Global Off-grid Solar 23
Panels See Solar Panels
Automated Solar Permitting Speeds Solar Adoption in US 23 – Clean Energy Permitting (See Investing, Siting & Codes) 23 – Siting, Permitting, & Transmission Reform 24 – SolarAPP+ NREL Automated PV Permiting 24
Perovskite Solar Cells – More – Perovskite Solar Cells 23 – Perovskite Solar Cells 24
Photovoltaics (PV) see Solar
Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Politics – Across Partisan Lines 23
Power Scout MA Install Savings
Project Drawdown Cautious Optimism 23
Project Sun Roof (Planning for PV)
Racial and Ethnic Injustice – More – NY – Low income – NREL 22 – Low Income 22 – Equitable Solar Communities 23 – Community Benefit Agreement DOE 24
Rates for Electricity by State
Real Estate Values – Property Values of Homes Near Solar Farms 23
Recycling PV Panels – 2020 Update – More – Gov. – More – More – More – Reuse – More – More – More – Repair – More 2021 – DOE 22 – Recycle PV &EV 22 – Reuse Panels 22 – Big Money in Recycling 22 – Panel Recycle 22 – Panel Recycling 23
Renewable Portfolio Standard – in Mass – Mass
Renewable Transition 2019 (Charts)
Residential Guide (See MA CEC) 22
Resource Library (Cities)
Rocky Mt. Inst. (Market-based)
Roof-integrated Solar Time Savings 23
Rooftop – Damage – Rooftop Solar = 45% Capacity 24 – Rooftop Solar = 45% Capacity 24
Sara Ross (Zero Energy House)
Schools – More – Schools & PPAs 22 – Solar-Powered Schools 24
Shingles and Walls Building integrated PV – PV Shingles (5 Brands) 23
Siting & Permitting 24 See Permitting – Research on Large PV Acceptance 24 – Commission on Energy Infrastructure Siting and Permitting 24 – Siting & Permitting MA 24 – Policies Across the US 24
SMART Rebate Program MA 22 – SMART MA 22
Social Justice See Racial and Ethnic Injustice – Solar Over Cemetery 24
Solar BASICS – Myths – Starting – Solar Panels Free? Don’t Get Burned 23 – PVWatts Calculator NREL 23
Solar & Batteries in Blackout 22 – Solar in Power Failure
Solar Energy Industries Assoc.
Solar Energy Tech. Office EERE 22
Solar for All – Rooftop Solar For Lower Incomes 22 – Solar for All $7 Billion from Biden 24
Solar in Mass – estimates
Solarfest (Vt)
Solar and Housing Values – Buying a House with Solar Panels 23 – Consumer’s Guide to Buying a House with PV 23 – Solar Farms & Property Values 24
Solar HOW IT WORKS (NASA) –Solar 101 21 – Plug-In Solar Panels 22
Solarize Mass Program – Eligibality
Panel – Solar Panels Best in 21 – Best Panels and Inverters 23
Cleaning – Longevity – Looks – Longevity – Flexible 21 – Panel Longevity 23
Solar Panels Cooling & Efficiency 23
Solar Panel Cost (MA 20) – Cheapest – More – More 21 – Compare 21 – Many Comparisons 23 – Electricity 56% Lower than Fossil Fuels 24
Locations See Rooftop Solar Array Placement (.6 of land for PV) – Solar for Parking Lots 21 – Solar Panels Cover Reservoirs 22 – By Roadsides 22 – PV for Window Shading 22 – On Railroad Tracks 23 – On the Ground 23 – Floating Solar 23 – Solar Geospatial Assessment 23 – The Power of Place 23 – PV on Fences 23 – Panels Over Canals 23 – PV & Canels 23 – PV on Vehicles 23 – More $ for Floating PV 23 – Solar Pike Path 23 – Gov. Land for PV 24 – Growing Solar, Protecting Nature 24 – Three Projects on Canals 24 – Rooftops 24 – Balcony Solar with AC-Coupled Storage DIY 24 – Balcony Solar 24
Solar Energy Technologies Office DOE 22
Solar Panels Facing West? – More
Panel Longevity – Wind – 50 Year Life 22 – Works in Shade 22 – Heating’s Effect 22 – Solar Panel Life 22 – 80% production after 30 years 22 – Best Panels and – Vulnerability to Hail 23 – Top 10 Solar Panels 24 – Longevity of Residential Solar Panels 24 – End-of-Life Management for PV 24 – Decommissioning Panels 24 – Second-life PV Modules 24
Panels Optimum Tilt – Calculator in AU – Hail Damage – More – Vertical 21 – Solar Panel Facades 22 – Any Orientation OK 22 – Vertical Rooftop 22 – Small Cracks 22 – Solar Panels for RVs 22
Panel Recycling See Recycling
Panels from USA 22 – Built in US 23
Photovoltaic-thermal System 23
Solar Arrays & Property Values 23
Solar Power World – a Journal
Solar Rights and Easements in Mass.
Solar Roadways – In Other Countries – More – Roadside
Solar Saves Everyone Money – Cost
Solar and Storage Industries Institute 23
Solar Value (Owners & Community)
Solsmart Department of Energy 22
South Hadley – Renewable Energy Options 2011 Study
Storage for Residential PV – More – Time of Use – vs Grid – Best – Tesla – With PV – Behind Meter – Prep. – More 21 – Comparison 21 – Battery for Solar 22
Storage -Types of – Flooded vs AGM – Gravity – Flow – Gravity – Nissan – More – Forever Energy Flow Home Battery 23
Study NREL 22 – Study in Brief 22
Tax Credits (Federal) – Tips – Tax Credit Transferability 24
Tariffs 22 – Tariffs DOE 22 – Tariffs 24
Tax Credits For Storage 20 – DOE 22
Training Solar Fellowships and Research Opportunities DOE 24
Understand Solar (on Cost)
Dept. of Energy – general info and gov. policy
U.S. Energy Information Administration (Energy Stats)
US Government Invests in PV 22
Vehicle to Grid (House) – More – Enphase V2G 23
Vote Solar (General PV Advocacy)
Webinars from Installers (Energy Saving)
Western Massachusetts Solar Forum UMass Amherst 24
Windows with PV In Skyscrapers 22
Wood Mackenzie Solar Market 22
Zoning for Solar – MA Court
EQUIPMENT
Enphase (Micro Inverters)
Stiebel-Eltron (Hot Water)