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Using Energy Credits
Incorporating solar panels at housing tax credit properties offers many valuable benefits
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Anti-sweat valve for toilets; cold-weather spray foam; solar-powered dimmer for tubular skylights; standard-width high-performance range; faux slate roofing; more
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Solar Makes Sense
Developers could learn a lot from communities like Franklin Hill in Dorchester, Mass. Local affordable housing developer Trinity Financial and the Boston Housing Authority are planning to install an array of solar panels with a cost of more than $1 million on Franklin Hill's 152-unit second phase...
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Solar-Powered Outdoor Lighting
From very simple residential steplight systems to serious major lighting installations, there are a number of products designed for grid-free installations.
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Green Lite
Victorville, Calif.—Solar panels aren’t easy to spot at La Mirage, a new apartment community here. The array is tucked out of sight on the roofs of the carports that ring the property.
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Deeper In Debt - In a Good Way
LAFAYETTE, COLO. Nothing says “green building” like $1 million in solar panels. It’s impossible to miss the panels at Eagle Place Townhomes.
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Solar cargo trailer
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This schematic shows how to wire the trailer-mounted photovoltaic power system described in July’s Backfill article.
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At South Mountain, a 100% worker-owned remodeling firm on Martha's Vineyard, employee-owner Phil Forest has discovered that venturing into renewables — including energy audits, solar electric panels, solar water heaters, and wind-turbine generators — fills a niche in the building business that is...
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The view from above, via Google Earth