How Do I Cover the Costs of Going Solar?

The number of households with solar is skyrocketing. From 2006 to 2013, the number of homes with solar increased by more than 1,000 percent.
By: 
Guthrie Dundas
June 28th, 2015

SunPower is set to march in this year's San Francisco Pride Parade

This year is the 45th anniversary of the San Francisco Pride Parade. For 45 years, people of the Bay Area have been gathering to celebrate diversity. The 2015 San Francisco Pride theme is, "Equality Without Exception".
By: 
Kat Han
June 22nd, 2015

Solar 101: How Does Solar Energy Work?

Our sun is a naturally occurring nuclear reactor. It releases tiny packets of energy called photons, which travel the 93 million miles from the sun to Earth in about eight-and-a-half minutes.
By: 
Martin DeBono
June 15th, 2015

6 Tips to Find the Perfect Solar Installer

Solar is a booming industry. New companies and contractors are popping up every day to get in on the action. If you use Yelp to search for “solar installation” in the San Francisco Bay area, you’ll get nearly 500 results. With hundreds of hit or miss options, what’s next?
By: 
Devon Westerholm
June 8th, 2015

Solar energy is a choice

Let me take you back in time to 2007. Obama was campaigning for his first term, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, and I headed to Berlin, Germany as an Arthur F. Burns Fellow.
By: 
Marissa Muller
June 3rd, 2015