Solar New Year Resolutions

Why is the solar home energy said to be environment-friendly? What are its general benefits? Practically speaking, when solar home energy is used, the electrical bills tremendously go down as compared to the other type of home energy available for all people. Why would you pay for such expensive bills when all you need to do is to employ solar home energy?
What is Solar Energy? Learn more by visiting http://thenewsolarenergy.com/solar-home-energy-what-is-it-for/

Petition Background
California law does not allow home owners to size their Solar systems larger than what they use. In order to get the California Solar Initiative (CSI) rebate, the customer is not allowed to install a system that inherently over-produces more than what is needed for his home.
The Feed-in Tariff can not be earned if you receive a rebate from your utility company for solar panels or if you are participating in other utility solar incentives programs such as the CSI. It also can not be earned if you are participating in net metering, which only pays one time a year under the AB 920 California Solar Surplus Act.
Our Feed-In Tariff should mirror Germany, Japan, and Hawaii where residential FIT is 21 cents - 54 cents per kilowatt hour.
The 5 cents per kwh currently administered as a one-time-a-year payment is not adequate and stops our own citizens from participating in our struggle to reduce green house gases.
The California Public Utility commission can change the FIT to 25 cents per kwh, and distribute the solution to all tax-paying citizens, who should not be deliberately handcuffed. Residential home owners should be allowed to oversize their Renewable Energy systems and participate in the State mandated goal to achieve 33% renewable energy by 2020.
California resident who purchase an electric vehicle can expect a 60% increase in their electric bill, as shown by a study done by Purdue University in summer of 2010.
Due to these laws, we have automatically taken out over 8 million roof tops, that would generate over 11,500MW of power, thats 5 San Onofre nuclear power plants.
We need to let our tax paying, Home Owning citizens in on a Feed in Tariff that pays 25 cents per kwh., and allow Homeowners to oversize their Renewable Energy Systems.
In the spirit of Bill McKibben and 350.org for our children and eaarth, lets make real global sustaining changes for all of us.
Go to Facebook, Daniel Ferra, Palm Springs Ca. to sign petition

We don't even take into account the tremendous health cost to us and our planet, when we burn oil, coal, and natural gas, which would make them more expensive than Solar or Wind. We need a National Feed in Tariff, for Solar and Wind, with laws that level the playing field, this petition starts with homeowners in California. Japan, Germany, and our state of Hawaii, will pay residents between 21- 54 cents per kilowatt hour, here in California they will pay us 5 cents per kilowatt hour, and they wont let us oversize our Solar systems, want to change our Feed in Tariff? Campaign to allow Californian residents to sell electricity obtained by renewable energy for a fair pro-business market price. Will you read, sign, and share this petition?
http://signon.org/sign/let-california-home-owners

Nice enough resolutions, collaboration is worthwhile. But the concept that there will never be failures is not realistic or worthwhile for the industry. If a group invests in a technology that is not realistic, then the negative solar publicity is very damaging to the industry at large. Solyndra for example. A technology that should have never been funded, especially with loans from the government.

I would add these resolutions to your list and don't believe 3 and 5 are valid.

11) Concentrate on providing LCOE that is competitive, not cost per watt.
12) Recognize that solar power is intermittent and address storage as a reality.
13) Quit hiding behind tariffs and require solar companies to be competitive worldwide in efficiency, reliability and price.

Just as I was writing a similar article... AGREED - I'll add an eleventh RE:Solution and that is to offer customers a greater choice of products. Integrated solutions and sleek frameless alternatives to large industrial panels for the domestic properties, glazing and facades for commercial and industrial properties.

Opportunites exist to make the solar landscape much more impressive, across the globe.

#8 PV is the best distributed generation technology – take it back to the community in 2013.


For those who would like to own their own solar energy system look at the Orion Solartech website. It shows a combined PV/Thermal structural solar panel that also makes the roof. Read the OVERVIEW and look at the 17 drawings under the DETAILS tab to get a complete understanding. It can work in conjunction with any type of roofing material and eliminates the perceived aesthetic problem with solar.

From independent to the above add;

11. Add heat from the sun and chemicals in an enclosed container and you now have energy production.

Print this out. Read every day. Live these now.

From an independent from an energy producing state; solar is one of many alternative energy solutions and like all energy forms; solar has draw backs due to inefficiency; the design materials and chemicals used for build the solar panels. Yes there an OHMS law and states are now cutting back on the energy production taxes granted. States need money to operate. Please keep in mind this blog is my opinion shared by others with similar backgrounds as mine; so please no comments that make you look like a fool arguing with some one you do not know. Conversions for DC solar power to AC commercial power direct as some people think and the laws does not allow meters to run in reverse; it takes two meters. YES there is God who created all things and no I man not god and I do not create I only think and suggest alternatives. For the rest please suggest any and all alternatives forms of energy for this blog

Very optimistic note on Solar.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India
E-mail: anumakonda.jagadeesh@gmail.com