Category Archives: Solar Business Resources

Dear Free Hot Water Dealers and Distributors and blog readers, It’s not too late! That is, it’s not too late to close commercial contracts that can qualify for the 1603 Treasury Grant Program (TGP) that is set to expire at … Continue reading →

The 1603 Treasury Grant Program (TGP) is set to expire at the end of 2011, although it is still uncertain whether Congress will renew the program for another year or longer. Cross your fingers. For those unfamiliar with the 1603 … Continue reading →

When Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, I wrote a blog post on RenewableEnergyWorld.com about lessons that the solar PV industry could learn from him. Now, as the news streams in about his death, I’d like to add my … Continue reading →

Thanks to improved manufacturing and distribution savings, Free Hot Water’s new line of OG-300 residential solar systems are now more affordable than ever. The lower prices are part of our ongoing campaign to bring affordable solar energy and utility independence … Continue reading →

We’d like to think that the Free Hot Water Blog and our various online solar calculators are the only resource on the web for solar installers. Of course, that’s not the case at all. Thankfully, for our industry, there are … Continue reading →

It’s nice to be recognized…by Google’s search engine.  How so? Recently, if you do a search on Google for “solar water heating for apartment buildings” or “solar hot water for apartment buildings,” or “solar thermal apartment buildings,” Free Hot Water … Continue reading →

Every three months or so, SEIA (Solar Energy Industry Association) and the good people at Greentech Media (GTM) Research put out a solar industry report, and that’s great. We’ve summed up some of the insights from the solar hot water … Continue reading →

  Let’s face it. Incentives help make the case for solar technologies, whether it’s solar water heating systems or solar electric. We’ve written before about the current national solar thermal incentives, but here they are again, briefly: Both residential and … Continue reading →

  The following is a shortened version of an interview with Tom Dinkel, the president and CEO of our solar monitoring partner SunReports. The interview originally appeared on SmartPlanet.com. Tom is not only the CEO of SunReports, but he’s also … Continue reading →

No matter what you think about the current presidential administration, the current US Department of Energy is huge proponent of solar technologies under Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize winning scientist. Case in point is the DOE’s development of Solar … Continue reading →