Useful Solar Energy Links and Resources

I compiled a list of links for a man starting up a solar installation company in California. Realizing that many of these links could be useful to our visitors and regular readers we wanted to share this resource here on the blog. Check it out and let us know if you have questions.

Here’s our other website for the pole mounts that we fabricate: www.truesouth.co

Here’s a link to the pool heating company that we represent: www.heliocol.com

Here’s a link to a solar hot water systems provider that we’ve used: www.solarskies.com

Here’s a link to the solar electric module manufacturer that we prefer: www.magesolar.com

Here’s a link to another really good solar electric module manufacturer: www.kyocerasolar.com

These guys are the ultimate providers of charge controllers and inverters for off grid solar electric systems: http://www.outbackpower.com/

Here’s a really nice commercial lighting system that we sell: http://daystarskylightsystem.com/

Here’s a really nice air heating system that we’re dealers for: http://www.rreal.org/

Here’s the national renewable energy laboratory: http://www.nrel.gov

Here’s the website that keeps track of incentives: http://dsireusa.org/

Here’s the magazine of the movement: http://homepower.com/home/

And of course there’s also: http://www.motherearthnews.com/

Here’s where I took online classes and a week’s hands on training in Paonia Colorado:http://www.solarenergy.org/

Here’s another training place we’ve been to a couple of times for classes and a big energy fair.  The energy fair was started in cooperation with Homepower Magazine in 1989 and is now attended by 20k people annually: https://www.midwestrenew.org/

Here’s one more for good measure, I attended an 8 hour workshop on natural lighting by these guys at an ASES conference: http://www.rmi.org/

So there’s a few links – if you have any questions in particular – please contact us and we would be happy to help you find the answer.

Enjoy!

Sam