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- Local Government and Community Programs and Incentives for Renewable Energy: National Report
- This paper presents a summary of the renewable energy programs and incentives of 45 communities in 23 states as collected and catalogued by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council's IREC Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy DSIRE project. Also included are summaries of state initiatives that impact implementation of renewable...
- White papers 2000-12-01
- Decorating Your Passive Solar Home: Balancing Energy and Aesthetics
- Harnessing the sun's energy with a passive solar design can mean substantial savings on utility bills. All that extra heat and sunlight can also pose some decorating challenges. Unless you plan carefully, their decorating scheme will interfere with the efficiency of their passive solar design, and the heat and sunlight...
- White papers 2000-06-05
- Passive Solar Retrofit: For North Carolina Homes
- Passive solar retrofit is the adding of solar features to an existing house. A retrofit can lower heating bills, but usually will not provide as much heat as a passive solar system designed into a new house. The type of retrofit, the condition of their house, and the cost of...
- White papers 2000-06-05
- Summer Shading and Exterior Insulation for: North Carolina Windows
- The same windows that provide a view, natural lighting, and ventilation at home may be adding to their winter heating and summer cooling costs. This is especially true if they've insulated and weatherized their house but neglected improving window energy efficiency. A well-insulated window will never be as efficient as...
- White papers 2000-06-15
- Energy-Saving Landscaping for Your Passive Solar Home
- Landscaping is often regarded as a finishing touch to enhance a home's appearance and increase its sales appeal. While it certainly does that, landscaping power is far more than cosmetic. Strategic landscaping can reduce a home's energy requirements during all four seasons, by blocking out the hot summer sun, encouraging...
- White papers 2004-01-15
- Passive Cooling for Your North Carolina Home
- As energy costs rise, and the public becomes more aware of the environmental damage arising from current energy use patterns, more people are looking into passive or active solar heating as a way of reducing the amount of energy used in their home. In most of North Carolina, just as...
- White papers 2000-06-05
- Selecting a Site for Your Passive Solar Home
- A good passive solar house requires more than just a good design and quality construction. It also requires that the plan and the site be considered together during the design phase to assure that they work together to optimize solar performance. The best-designed solar house plan will not work unless...
- White papers 2000-06-14
- Sunbook: A Guide to Solar Energy in North Carolina
- As prices go up for electricity, oil, natural gas or propane, people tighten their belts just a little bit more. In North Carolina, the cost of heating and cooling a home in recent years has risen faster than any other basic commodity. Some families are getting monthly utility bills that...
- White papers 2000-06-12
- North Carolina Consumer's Guide to Buying a Solar Electric System
- This paper is designed to guide people through the process of buying a solar electric system. PV technology converts sunlight directly into electricity. It works any time the sun is shining, but more electricity will be produced when the light is more intense a sunny day and is directly over...
- White papers 2004-02-16
- Photovoltaic Applications
- As energy demands around the world increase, the need for a renewable energy source that will not harm the environment has never been greater. Some projections indicate that the global energy demand will almost triple by 2050. Using photovoltaic PV cells is one way to meet the need, converting sunlight...
- White papers 2002-07-23
- Siting of Active Solar Collectors and Photovoltaic Modules
- A solar collector or photovoltaic PV module gathers the most sunlight when it is perpendicular to the sun. Ideally, it should be tilted to follow the sun's change in elevation during the course of the year, and turn to follow the sun's apparent path from east to west during the...
- White papers 2001-12-04
- Photovoltaics: Electricity From the Sun
- Making electricity without adversely affecting the environment may seem like a dream too good to come true. However, through the use of photovoltaic PV, sunlight can be converted directly into electricity. No fluids or moving parts are involved. Solar photovoltaic are made of semiconductor materials that produce voltage and current...
- White papers 2002-07-23
- The Photovoltaic Power System for the NCSU Solar House
- The North Carolina State University Solar House was built in 1981 in order to evaluate and demonstrate solar design and construction techniques and energy efficient technologies. It incorporates passive solar features such as a sunspace, trombe walls, and earth-berm insulation. The house also uses compact fluorescent lighting, a ground coupled...
- White papers 2002-02-08
- Biomass Energy Sources for North Carolina
- The production of energy from biomass can be an important component of an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce pollution, and increase U.S. and North Carolina energy security. Biomass currently accounts for 79% of the independent renewable energy generation in North Carolina, and will continue to represent a large...
- White papers 2003-08-22
- Do It Yourself Solar Applications: For Water and Space Heating
- This paper looks at solar additions, retrofits and construction techniques that are low-cost. These systems are described and compared to each other in terms of energy benefits, initial costs and ease of maintenance. Before investing in any of these systems, the most cost-effective home improvement is to caulk, weather strip,...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- Space Heating With Active Solar Energy Systems
- Solar space heating systems can be either active or passive. Passive systems use building components such as floors, walls, and sun spaces to collect and store heat. Often, small fans distribute heat, but mechanical equipment and the use of outside energy are kept to a minimum. In contrast to passive...
- White papers 2000-06-05
- Heating Your Swimming Pool With Solar Energy
- An unheated swimming pool has a natural yearly temperature cycle that varies with climate and geography, which in most parts of the United States limits outdoor swimming to just the summer months. However, a comfortable three to four month swimming season can be stretched out to five or six months...
- White papers 2002-07-24
- National Summary Report on State Financial and Regulatory Incentives for Renewable Energy
- This paper documents the variety of mechanisms that states are using to support renewable energy and is intended to serve as a comprehensive guide to this activity. This paper is organized by state, with individual chapters for all fifty states. This is a departure from past reports whose chapters were...
- White papers 2000-12-01
- The Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy: Local Government and Community Programs and Incentives
- This paper presents a review of local government and community programs and incentives for renewable energy as collected and catalogued by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council's IREC Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy DSIRE project. More than 200 programs, incentives, policies, or projects have been implemented by over 100...
- White papers 2003-07-15
- Customer-Sited Photovoltaics: State Market Analysis
- As the energy industry seeks new definition, either within regulation or through utility restructuring, emerging policies have resulted in more favorable economics for residential customer-sited photovoltaic CSPV. Though solar electric systems are still the most expensive form of renewable energy, they are still the most affordable and market-available for residential...
- White papers 2003-07-15
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