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The Real Story on Solar Power and Energy Policy in America

The sensational headlines over the past two months regarding the Solyndra bankruptcy could give the false impression that the U.S. solar energy industry is the primary beneficiary of energy-related federal subsidies and tax breaks. This is simply not the…

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Here Comes Solar Energy

For decades the story of technology has been dominated, in the popular mind and to a large extent in reality, by computing and the things you can do with it. Moore’s Law — in which the price of computing…

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New Poll: 9 out of 10 Americans Support Solar, Across Political Spectrum

Survey by Kelton Research finds continued widespread public support for development of solar energy, federal incentives for solar, across political spectrum.

WASHINGTON – Americans overwhelmingly support the use and development of solar energy as well as…

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Perkins School For the Blind Thank You to SolarFlair

Perkins School For the Blind Thank You to SolarFlair
 

October 3, 2011

Mr. Matthew Arner
SolarFlair Energy Inc.
11 Mayhew St
Framingham, MA…

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Photovoltaic Grid Parity Projected to Arrive Soon In Europe’s Market

Solar photovoltaic electricity will reach grid parity in some European markets as early as 2013, and in all market segments across the continent by 2020, according to a recent study by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA).

PV…

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Radio Interview with SolarFlair on Sustainability

Solar Energy Discussion with Dan Greenwood of SolarFlair
August 31, 2011

Dan Greenwood, Business Development Manager with SolarFlair, a Massachusetts-based installer of commercial and residential solar energy systems, joins host Bryan Sheehan to discuss trends and developments…

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Statewide solar power installations surpass 50 MW; growth on track to exceed 90 MW by year’s end.

BOSTON – Tuesday, June 21, 2011 – Today marks the Summer Solstice -- with more hours of daylight than any other day of the year -- and the Patrick-Murray Administration is using the occasion to highlight dramatic growth in…

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SolarFlair NSTAR Commercial

See SolarFlair as the featured installer in an NSTAR commercial for solar energy.

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Westborough entrepreneur uses the power of the sun

For months, Westborough residents have looked curiously at the array of glass panels lined up in neat rows in what was formerly a wooded Milk Street lot and wondered at what exactly they were looking. It is not a…

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Solar farm evokes interest, awe

WESTBORO — The array of gray-blue panels, glittering in the sunlight, was just as beautiful as Ken Percy imagined it would be.

“It’s just amazing,” he said. “It’s unbelievable to stand here and look at this.”

The…

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SolarFlair Installs 480kW Solar Array on Self Storage Facility

In 2008, 126 Self Storage of Ashland, Mass. installed a 20 kw solar array. Once again they are teaming up with SolarFlair Energy, Inc. to construct an additional 480kw system on their underutilized roof space. The project…

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Perkins School for the Blind Featured on Channel 5 News

See a SolarFlair solar electric install discussed in WCVB Channel 5's "Buildings That Work" segment about the new Lower School at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA.

Buildings That Work: Segment 2

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Watertown’s Perkins School Brings Classrooms into the 21st Century

The new Lower School building at the Perkins School for the Blind may be filled with more spacious classrooms and improved technology for teaching, but the students are most impressed by the talking elevators and the intercom system.

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Environmental Outlook: Oil Subsidies and the Future of U.S. Energy Policy

President Barack Obama is calling for an end to tax breaks for oil companies to help finance clean-energy research projects. As part of an Environmental Outlook series on the Diane Rehm show, she looks at the big business of…

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Why Solar Installers Conduct Evaluations in the Winter

We would love to say solar installers in the Northeast take the winter off, but they don’t. The work for PV contractors does not stop just because snow is on the ground or ice is on a roof. In…

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