Links to Information about Solar Energy

Illinois Solar Energy Association:  Seeks to provide education and resources through monthly meetings, sponsored events, expositions, and competitions. Site features educational articles, newsletter, rebate program information and links.
Independent Step-By-Step Guide To Purchasing A Solar Energy System – Solarbuzz:   
Indirect Forms Of Solar Energy:   
Industry Development Strategy For The PV Sector:  by Eric Ingersoll, Daniel C. Gallagher, and Romana A. Vysatova
Insolation (Solar Radiation) Data Base 30 Year:  Database of actual measured solar radiation for hundreds of US cities over a 30-year period. This is the standard database for figuring nearly all-solar electric systems.
Inspira:  Custom design, prototyping, manufacturing and testing of equipment for the solar energy industry.
Institut For Solar Technology SPF:  A research and testing institute for thermal solar energy. Main specialties: collectors, systems, materials and software to calculate and optimize collector system properties. [German, English, French, Spanish, Italian]
Institute For Sustainable Power:  nonprofit corporation, organized to provide a quality framework for the accreditation of training programs.
Inti Tech:  Solar energy system consultant specialists in AC/DC photovoltaic hydroelectric power generation. Offers alternative energy solutions for electricity production, water delivery, communications and remote living applications.
ISECO Solar Energy Co  Ltd :  Providing solar water heating systems for residential, commercial and industrial applications. Includes a list of completed projects.
ISES 2005 Solar World Congress:  Links to call for papers, preliminary schedule for 5 day International Solar Energy Society event in Orlando, Florida (USA).
ISES Italia Sezione Dellinternational Solar Energy Society:  Associazione per la formazione e l’informazione nel campo delle fonti di energia rinnovabile e gli usi razionali dell’energia.
JC Solar House Plans And Solar Collectors:  Contains a lot of information about solar energy panels, solar hot water, and solar collectors.
Jerry Halsteads:  EV conversion of 1985 Mazda with full web based chronicle. Excellent site! 
Kangaroo Building Services:  Residential and commercial window cleaning/power washing, as well as sales and installation of energy efficient solar screens. Includes company history and references.
Kiraly Josef:  Photographs of completed solar panel home projects. Includes energy requirements. Based in Austria.
L5 Development Group:  A privately funded, for profit, space exploration and development program whose initial business plan is to build space colonies at L5 and manufacture solar power satellites to meet the Earth’s energy needs
LC Solar:  Wholesale suppliers of photovoltaic solar panels worldwide. An article on solar energy can be found along with product details, information on their use, care and warranty.
LENS:  Low Energy Neutrino Spectroscopy aims to measure the solar neutrino spectrum at low energy in real time.
LH2com Hydrogen And Liqud Hydrogen Energy Resources:  Liquid Hydrogen (LH2) or Hydrogen Energy website. Chat with like minds on our bulletin board. Search manufacturers, inventors, investors, fuel cells, energy, wind, solar, cars, international news.
Lino Apontes:  site to informs Puerto Rico locals about solar energy.
NEW  Living on Solar Energy: We have created this site to show how we are living on solar. We have made and will be making solar videos that can be watched through this site showing the various ways that we use the sun to provide for our energy needs.
Low Temperature And Solar Stirling Engines:  Stirling engines that demonstrate the conversion of unconcentrated sunlight or low temperature heat into mechanical energy. These engines are suitable as demonstration models in schools and universities.
Manytracks:  Information about homesteading, organic gardening, self-sufficiency, seed saving, solar energy and recumbent bicycles.
Metcalfs Solar Power And Light:  Details about a home solar photovoltaic system in Glendale, California. 
Methods Of Producing Energy Out Of Solar Heat :  from the Polytechnical College of Esslingen, Germany.
Mexico Solar:  Offers design, installation, and maintenance of solar energy home heating and water heating devices.
Michael Bott:  BP Solar 1.7Kwh system installed and commissioned on 6 Jan 2005. I have been monitoring the systems output daily and placing system output data on the site. 
Michael Klemen:  my renewable energy experiences including lots of real life wind turbine/PV data and service histories for 9 different turbines are here.
Michael Macfaden:  A residential grid-tied PV system install with a live 24-hour production report.
Microsolar:  manufacturer and exporter of multi-valve solar water heating systems and solar panels for residential and industrial applications. 
Million Solar Roofs Solar Technologies: Solar Hot Water :  This site provides information on the US Department of Energy’s sponsored Million Solar Roofs Initiative. This initiative will enable businesses and communities to install solar systems on one million rooftops across the United States by 2010.
Mobile Solar:  Specializing in wireless energy such as solar cells/chargers, flashing antennae and phone accessories.
Moscow We Have A Problem:  An interview with NASA officials about a serious accident aboard the Mir station caused when the Mir cosmonauts lost control of a resupply ship, crashing it into the space station. The collision caused a depressurization and damaged the station’s solar panels. [PBS]
MSK Corporation :   
Mystery Of Nazca Lines:  Alla Belokon suggests that the lines represent our Solar system planets as crystal structure nodes, and was built by a flow of directed energy of unknown nature from the air.
NASA Langley Distributed Active Archive (DAAC) :  Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy Data Set 
NASA SOHO:   
National Center For Photovoltaics (NCPV):  U.S. Department of Energy. Research and development, and information source on photovoltaics. Website includes a virtual library of online reference materials and photographs on photovoltaic technology, educational materials, links to commercial suppliers and other web resources. 
National Park Service Renewable Energy Applications:   
National Photovoltaic Environmental Health And Safety Assistance Center:  Information and analysis on environmental aspects of photovoltaic (solar electric) technology, including concerns about heavy metals in solder. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Natural Energy Solar Pool Heating Systems:  Solar pool heating systems, installations in California and Nevada. Ordering information, product descriptions and specifications.
Natural Energy Source:  Offers a variety of natural energy products and turnkey wind and solar power arrangements.
Nemo Solar DC Submersible Well Pumps:  Sells energy-efficient 12 and 24 VDC submersible well pumps, to be powered by battery, inverter, or directly by solar modules.
Nevada PV Pilot With Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) (Nevada PV Bill):  Pilot programs have been approved to accelerate the market development for distributed PV installations in schools, public buildings, and individual residential and small business establishments.
New Jersey Zero Energy Remodeling Project Points The Way To Gains In Residential Energy Efficiency:   
Next Edge:  Provider of energy solutions, energy efficient lighting, HVAC retrofitting, cogeneration, back-up power, and solar energy.
Noaas Solar And Thermal Atmospheric Radiation (STAR)  :   
Noaas SURFRAD Network:   
North Sun 2001 Conference:  A conference focusing on all aspects of solar energy.
Norwegian Solar Energy Society (ISES Norway):  Features contact information and links. (Most of the site is in Norwegian.)
Novasol Inc: Solar And Wind Energy:  Sales, installations, system designs.
NREL: Photovoltaics For Buildings:  includes information on photovoltaics (PV) or solar electricity for homes and commercial buildings and PV research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. 
Number One Source Ltd :  Offers solar energy, passive cooling and wind energy systems including system design, procurement and construction. Includes news on current projects. Located on the West Bank.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Engineering Science And Technology Division
:  R&D organization specializing in industrial and buildings energy efficiency; energy utilization technologies; transportation analysis; solar technology; and related areas.
Optical Energy Technologies Inc :  Manufacture non-tracking concentrating solar collectors, and install and service solar energy systems. Includes product overviews and photographs.
Overview Of Solar Thermal Technologies:  an overview of the technologies for generating electricity from the concentration of solar thermal energy, this site is maintained by EREN.

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