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Advanced Energy Solutions recently received significant praise and recognition from the Solar Energy Industries Association, through their website http://www.solarworksforamerica.com.

Chief Technician and CEO Aur Beck spoke with SEIA about the significant strides in installation quality and renewable energy education that AES has accomplished during its 12 year history of installing solar and other renewable energy systems, throughout southern Illinois and surrounding regions.

By Ben Uyeda

Link for full article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-uyeda/how-refueling-your-car-ca_b_9899...

If you are one of the typical Americans who drives about 40 miles a day, then you should consider an atypical scenario if you happen to be planning on building a new home.

If you are taking out a mortgage to build a new home and are willing to take advantage of the falling price of photovoltaic panels, then you have an opportunity to increase the value of your home and stop throwing money away on transportation fuel.

By DANICA COTO

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico

Gov. Luis Fortuno announced Thursday that the Caribbean's largest solar energy project will be built in Puerto Rico, an island heavily dependent on petroleum where power costs twice what it does on the U.S. mainland.

The AES team made it's way to the Green Homes Great Health Festival in the Missouri Botanical Gardens the weekend of September 23rd.
The Festival had a variety of attractions including an inflatable colon, to educate people on colon cancer. There was a local foods court that included Missouri based local foods.
A Fitness Pavilion was open to the public and live local bands from the area played for the festival. Visitors to the fair even had the chance to paint a public city bus.

Technology Uses Solar UV To Disinfect Drinking Water:

Written by Green Liver from the Imperial Valley News, edited by Rachel Thomas

West Lafayette, Indiana - A team of Purdue University researchers has invented a prototype water-disinfection system that could help the world's 800 million people who lack safe drinking water.

Taken from the New York times website

Two men on a boat: Two men prepare on a boat powered by solar to travel the world

September 6, 2011

A study released this week by the Solar Energy Industries Association, GTM Research and the International Trade Commission found the U.S. had $1.8 billion in net exports of solar technology last year.

As the debt showdown between President Obama and top House Republicans drags on, you've probably been hearing about the billions in tax subsidies we give to the oil and gas industry each year. And if you haven't been, you should be; eliminating those subsidies would be a great way to reduce spending without raising taxes or cutting services.

So what does all that money go toward? And aside from a broken climate and oil spills, what exactly does it buy?