Solar

Resource Source and Description Audience Topic Type Additional Tags File
Energy Kids

Resources for students and teachers including lesson plans, games, activities and experiments

U.S. Energy Information Administration
Guide or Toolkit
Executive Energy Leadership Academy

The Executive Energy Leadership Academy provides industry and community leaders an opportunity to learn about advanced energy technologies to guide their organizations in energy-related decisions and planning.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
General
eXtension Farm Energy

The eXtension Farm Energy website provides factsheets, research summaries, case studies, decision tools, worksheets, and many other resources. Farm Energy covers a range of practices, including conserving energy, growing and producing biofuels, evaluating feedstocks, calculating farm wind and solar potential, and the sustainable use and production of farm energy.

U.S. Cooperative Extension System
Report
Factsheet
Guide or Toolkit
GIS and Google Earth Solar Data

Review solar resource maps and GIS data for over 180 countries.

Solargis
Tool or Calculator
Map
Green Tune-Up and Remodel ROI Charts

Green and Save's return on investment charts calculate the payback of energy saving appliances and systems over traditional ones.

Green and Save
Factsheet
Tool or Calculator
Homeowner's Guide to Solar Financing

The Homeowner's Guide to Solar Financing is a 26-page booklet designed to introduce homeowners to leases, loans and PPAs for solar PV systems.

Clean Energy States Alliance
Guide or Toolkit
PDF icon Download (9.99 MB)
IEEFA Research Topics

Find IEEFA research and reports listed by topic, region or by energy company.

Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
Report
Jobs and Economic Development Impact Models (JEDI)

The Jobs and Economic Development Impact (JEDI) models are user-friendly screening tools that estimate the economic impacts of constructing and operating power plants, fuel production facilities, and other projects.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Tool or Calculator
Modified Accelerated Cost-Recovery System (MACRS)

MACRS is a U.S. tax policy allowing businesses to recover investments in certain renewable energy technology systems through depreciation deductions.

Department of Energy
Policy or Regulation
N.C. Building Performance Association — Member Directory

Directory of NCBPA-associated installers, contractors, auditors, nonprofits and consultants for a variety of building performance needs

North Carolina Building Performance Association
Guide or Toolkit

Solar News

Energy Tech University Prize 2022 Competition

An Appalachian State University student team earned a Technology Bonus Prize in the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Tech University Prize 2022 Comp...

Betty's Biscuits Goes Solar

Boone, NC - Local restauranteur, Tina Houston, operates a successful food truck, Betty's Biscuits. Until this past sunny, late fall Sunday, she powere...

Mobile PV System Enables Flexible Use

In the summer of 2018, Cameron Van Dyke, Assistant Professor in the Applied Design Department, reached out to Brent Summerville, Practitioner-in-Resid...

Off-Grid Electric System - Kellogg Residence

The Sustainable Technology program has a new relatively new Photovoltaics II class.  The focus is on battery-based, off-grid solar electric syste...

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