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  • Redwood Hill launches large solar project

    July 12th, 2010

    SEBASTOPOL – Sebastopol-based Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery is finally realizing a longtime goal to reduce its carbon footprint by offsetting all of its electricity use with solar energy. Installation begins this month on a 586-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system at the company’s processing facility on Highway 116. When completed in late summer or early fall, the system is expected to generate 834,998 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, saving the company more than $1.5 million in utility costs over 10 years.

  • Xandex tilts portfolio toward sun

    June 7th, 2010

    PETALUMA – Long-time semiconductor test company Xandex Inc. is shifting its focus with the launch of a solar product, the first of a series.

  • June 19 Solar Energy Fair moves to a whole new level

    June 7th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA – Like the solar industry in the North Bay, the Solar Fair has grown up.

  • Electrical contractor shifts to solar

    June 7th, 2010

    GRATON – Electrical and general contractor Warren Brown sees brighter prospects for his 14-year-old construction company in designing and installing solar electricity systems and is shifting his focus to that market.

  • Redwood Hill goes solar

    May 31st, 2010

    SEBASTOPOL – Redwood Hill Farm Dairy and Creamery contracted One Sun Inc. to design and install a 586 kW solar PV system at its processing facility in Sebastopol.

  • Tax credits, rebates fuel solar

    May 24th, 2010

    NORTH BAY – The tax benefits that come along with solar projects and going green coupled with the environmental benefits can make it a desirable move for many businesses.

  • Spectra ups desalination efficiency

    April 26th, 2010

    SAN RAFAEL — Spectrawatermakers has moved solar-powered desalination a major step forward with a new, super-efficient energy-recovery pump.

  • Green Business: Local governments add water-miser rules

    April 4th, 2010

    A number of the municipal water suppliers in Sonoma and Marin counties already have adopted a model water-efficient landscape ordinance developed by a working group led by Santa Rosa. The model ordinance was based on the statewide standard from the Water Conservation Landscaping Act, or Assembly Bill 1881, which took effect at the beginning of this year.

  • Enphase Energy pulls in $40 million

    March 30th, 2010

    PETALUMA — Enphase Energy, maker of solar microinverter systems, announced today that it closed a round of $40 million in investor funding.

  • REC Solar bringing inverter tech to North Bay

    March 1st, 2010

    PETALUMA – The march of solar technology toward less expensive, more efficient systems echoes the development of computer technology, with the same semiconductor core.

  • Long-time Napa firm rides heating trends

    March 1st, 2010

    NAPA – Warm Floors started as a solar thermal heating systems provider, long before solar heating became as familiar as the sun to Californians, and solar thermal is becoming a bigger part of the business again.

  • Spotlight on innovators in green technology

    February 1st, 2010

    This spotlight focuses on some of the North Bay people and companies that are creating new green technologies that are being put to work in the field daily. Know someone who should be here? Let us know. Listed alphabetically by innovator name.

  • 2010 Trends: Solar shows no signs of fading

    January 11th, 2010

    NORTH BAY – If recent developments are a sign, the year 2010 will see more solar providers starting up or opening branches in the North Bay.

  • As solar panels proliferate, so do legal questions

    November 2nd, 2009

    CALIFORNIA – Is creating renewable energy more important than saving a tree or an open field?

  • Enphase releases more powerful solar device

    October 27th, 2009

    PETALUMA — Solar microinverter maker Enphase Energy, putting its recent $22.5 million infusion of funds to use, launched a new product today. The fast-growing company expects high demand from the commercial solar sector will lead to an even higher growth rate.

  • Real Goods Solar returns to North Bay

    October 26th, 2009

    SAN RAFAEL — Real Goods Solar is moving its headquarters back to San Rafael from Campbell and into an expanded space, according to CEO John Schaeffer.

  • With $22.5 million infusion, Enphase sees rising demand

    August 31st, 2009

    PETALUMA – Enphase Energy continues to grow despite an economy that has many technology companies struggling.

  • $14 million in requests for energy loans

    July 23rd, 2009

    SONOMA COUNTY – More than 355 Sonoma County residents have submitted applications to the Energy Independence Program, a financing tool for property owners wishing to make energy-efficient upgrades, requesting $14 million to retrofit their homes and businesses with energy water saving improvements.

  • Accounting: 2009 offers special incentives for going solar

    July 20th, 2009

    The financial incentives for going solar are numerous, but not all of them may be around much longer.

  • Startup tackles rising solar panel theft

    July 6th, 2009

    SANTA ROSA – Ken Martin Jr. faced $75,000 in replacement costs after 58 solar panels were stolen from his Santa Rosa office building.

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