If you live or work in a north Georgia county serviced by a TVA-partnered EMC, you may be eligible for the best solar energy incentives in the state. Currently the Tennessee Valley Authority has authorized its member EMCs to buy your solar energy back from you at a rate in excess of 12 cents per killowatt hour over your prevailing energy rates. So if you currently pay $.10/kWh for your home or business' energy, the TVA will pay you $.22/kWh for the power generated from your solar panels.

Read how solar energy does work in Georgia in James Marlow' Op-Ed published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

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Read how Green energy is on a road paved with gold.  BtoB magazine on Radiance Solar and the opportunity of solar energy in Atlanta and the Southeast.  More...

The Solar Decathlon 2009 starts this weekend on the Mall in Washington, DC.  If you can't make it to Washington over the next week, you can view virtual tours of the Solar Decathlon homes.  More...

Protecting the natural environment isn’t the whole story: companies must consider their social, economic, and cultural impact as well. This Mckinsey article sums it up very well.

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The city of Seattle, Washington's public utility site has a great chart showing the average energy usage of typical household appliances. Make sure you use energy cost for your region when trying to calculate the actual cost per month. The Georgia Power residential rate is approximately $.09/kWh before sales tax and without environmental/franchise fees.

Georgia can generate an additional 50,000 GWh of electricity from available renewable energy resources (see Table 1), which would make total renewable power production equal to approximately 40 percent of current electricity sales. Read the report on renewables in Georgia to learn more.

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Below is the latest solar map from the Department of Energy's, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The truth is that solar works well in the United States. One of the most progressive countries for solar energy is Germany. By way of a Feed-in Tariff, much of the country's roofs are covered in solar. The most amazing part of this is that Germany is on the same northern latitude of Quebec and Ontario Canada!

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If sun rises, state can meet renewable energy mandate

By JAMES MARLOW
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

At a recent congressional hearing, Public Service Commissioner Stan Wise was quoted telling Congress that Georgia cannot meet a mandate to have at least 25 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025.

Wise went on to say that other states would be able to meet the requirement, which may soon be imposed by new federal regulations, though he believes Georgia cannot.