Solar Energy for Property Owners & Sales Professionals

No one can stop you from educating others about the benefits of Solar Energy and 80% of people are employed.

If you own property, learn more about solar energy at FreeSolarWebinar.org.

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DWP Solar Finance Would Increase Solar and Create Jobs in California

The Los Angeles Business Council promises excellent jobs and 600 MW of electricity if the city can institute a solar finance program. The proposed solar finance program would be funded by the Department of Water and Power. It would allow Los Angeles to create 3% of its electricity from the sun and attract solar companies to the area to create jobs.

The program, which has been implemented in Florida and Germany, is already a success. It will encourage business owners and homeowners to install solar on their homes and commercial buildings.

All excess electricity generated can be sold back to the utility company at a set rate for the next 20 years.

Solar has already created 4,300 local jobs, but investment by the city of Los Angeles through solar financing would further propel the solar industry.

The program will be paid by the Department of Water and Power. It is estimated that the program will cost $35 million a year from its $4 billion budget. Already, the budget includes $800 million for renewable energy programs. By teaming up property owners, Los Angeles can deploy solar with this robust finance program.

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Inverters and Their Role in Renewable Energy

Inverters and Their Role in Renewable Energy

Inverters may be the one piece of electrical equipment that most solar energy users do not know much about.  They are very discrete, unobtrusive boxes that convert direct current (DC), in this case from solar panels, to alternating current (AC) for practical use.  With the use of proper transformers, switching, and circuit controls, AC can be converted to any voltage and frequency.

Apart from solar panels, inverters are also used to transmit power from batteries and fuel cells.

Most property owners using solar electricity use grid tie inverters.  These inverters are capable of feeding back energy into the utility grid because it produces alternating current with the amplitude and frequency as the energy provided by the utility distribution network.  These are quite useful as they can shut off in the event of a blackout.

Micro-inverters are used to convert direct current from individual solar panels into alternating curre nt solely for feeding it into the utility grid.

A commercial generator or uninterruptible power supply uses a battery and an inverter to store alternating current for a main power distribution outage.  Once main power is restored, a rectifier is used to supply direct current electricity for recharging the battery.

Though inverters are frequently unnoticed when admiring a solar system, there role is what makes any solar energy generation project possible. 

According to a new report from Yole Developpement, a French industry analysis firm, the growing photovoltaic market has resulted in a multi-billion euro market for European inverter manufacturers.  The photovoltaic inverter market is expected to double in value during the coming years.  Analysts project the industry to be worth an estimated $8.1 billion by 2014. 

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Why Solar Sales Jobs are as Abundant as Ever

Why Solar Sales Jobs are as Abundant as Ever

Not many people have researched solar sales jobs for a new career simply because the renewable energy industry has not received the type of promotion it deserves.  The traditionally popular use of credit in the automobile and real estate industries has attracted many valuable sales professionals to those two lines of work.  This dependence on credit has driven our financial system up until very recently.  Banks have not truly capitalized on the practical investment of solar.

Though solar sales jobs have existed ever since solar energy has been offered to utility customers, most professionals drawn to this industry commonly come from technical employment backgrounds.  This includes scientists, engineers, electricians, and other such technicians.  Construction and roofing contractors have found great interest in solar energy as well.  Though there still is a great need for all of these types of professionals, there is a greater to need for the creation of solar sales jobs.    

Solar sales jobs will attract many Americans that have been dislocated from their respective employment industries due to the devastating recession.  While many have been long-unemployed, there are also those professionals who struggle to find financial reward and fulfillment in their current line of work.  Making the career transition into solar sales may seem impossible without the proper skills and experience, but there are many sales professionals who find the right direction and build their own path to success.

To answer the question is solar a sustainable energy? This about this: in a world full of uncertainty, we know that fossil fuels will run out relatively soon. Solar energy is just beginning to replace it. Since solar has already created green, sustainable jobs, why not join a growing industry from the beginning?

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10 Million Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot Water Act

10 Million Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot Water Act

Though 90% of Americans agree that we should be employing solar energy to combat our climate and energy crises, the U.S. government has been slow to embrace and develop legislation that addresses those concerns.  In a bill titled "10 Million Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot Water Act" and introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Feb. 4, 2010, Americans in all 50 states would be eligible for rebates for the installation of solar electric and solar thermal systems.  

The bill known as the 10 Million Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot Water Act adopted its name from California Solar Initiative's "Million Solar Roofs" program and is modeled after the incentive programs in California and New Jersey- number 1 and 2 in solar energy, respectively.  It would provide for up to half the cost of any new photovoltaic or solar thermal system.

The 10 Million Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot W ater Act will produce 30,000 new megawatts of electricity in the next 10 years.  This amount of energy is equivalent to the output of 30 nuclear power plants.  However, it is extremely more cost-effective.  The program is estimated to cost anywhere between $2-3 billion per year.

The average power plant produces about 1,000 megawatts for the $10 billion spent to build it.  Sanders' 10 Million Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot Water Act aims to produce 30x the energy of a nuclear power plant for only $30 billion.  It would take $300 billion to produce that much energy from nuclear sources.

Distributed energy is much more efficient than energy produced from coal, oil, and nuclear.  Yet, it hasn't benefited from the same amount of funding as the other more traditional methods.

Proponents of the 10 Mil lion Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot Water Act include Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ),  Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Arlen Specter (D-PA).

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