Our content is more comprehensive and engaging than ever. We’re focusing not just on the design and construction of environmentally appropriate, cost-effective buildings, but also on the larger topic of sustainable living.

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When Richard and Karen Perez launched Home Power in 1987, their mission was to change the way people generate and use energy, one rooftop at a time. And for two decades, we’ve continued to broadcast this message, loud and clear. Over the years, Home Power has become the editorial venue for homeowners, business owners, and renewable energy professionals to exchange equipment, design, installation, and system performance experiences. This information exchange has helped create an industry with not only cutting-edge technology, but perhaps more importantly, a common goal: reducing the use of polluting fossil fuels and replacing this generation capacity with the infinite supplies of renewable energy that surround us.

Over the last 20 years, we’ve published more than 120 issues of Home Power. Each issue contains the most comprehensive, technical coverage of solar, wind, and microhydro electricity, energy efficiency, solar hot water systems, space heating and cooling, energy-efficient building materials and home design, and clean transportation options. We’re here to help you make informed, fiscally sound decisions about your energy generation and use, so you too can experience the wide range of benefits that renewable energy has to offer us, individually and collectively.

The corporation is an independent third-party certification entity. It is unique in that it is the only national certification program established solely for solar thermal products. It is also the only national certification organization whose programs are the direct result of the combined efforts of state organizations and an industry association involved in the administration of standards.  Website

FSEC offers testing and certification services for a number of solar devices

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On January 21, 2010, the CPUC approved a Decision creating the CSI-Thermal Program, which allocates $350.8 million to promote solar water heating (SWH) through a program of direct financial incentives to retail customers, training for installers and building inspectors, and a statewide marketing campaign. (Although SWH is the focus of the program, some non-water heating technologies also qualify.) Incentives are available to customers who currently heat their water with electricity or natural gas in the service territories of Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric, and Southern California Gas Company.

Single family SWH systems that displace natural gas will initially qualify for incentives of up to $1,875, while electricity-displacing systems will qualify for incentives of up to $1,250. Actual incentive amounts will be based on the expected performance of the system as predicted by the SRCC rating and positioning. Incentive levels will decline in four steps as the program meets certain installation benchmarks. See their solar water heating website

A Monthly average of 210,000 hits, more than 1.5 million pages viewed and persistent top rankings in Google for important keywords demonstrates the attractiveness of the portal.

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ASES leads national efforts to increase the use of solar energy, energy efficiency and other sustainable technologies in the U.S. We publish the award-winning SOLAR TODAY magazine, organize and present the ASES National Solar Conference and lead the ASES National Solar Tour — the largest grassroots solar event in the world. ASES is the U.S. section of the  International Solar Energy Society.

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