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Cheap Hot Water? Just Add Sunshine

"Solar hot water has been like the redheaded stepchild and not seen as sexy as electricity—but it should be," says Bernadette Del Chiaro, clean-energy program director for the not-for-profit advocacy group, Environment California, which helped sponsor the rebate program.

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Rebates for solar water heaters approved

A typical home solar water system costs from $5,000 to $7,000. Using one can cut a home's natural gas bill in half, said Bernadette Del Chiaro, clean energy advocate for Environment California, an environmental group. "This is another giant step forward for California making solar a mainstream technology," she said.

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Solar water heaters get a $350-million boost in California

California regulators approved a $350-million rebate offer today to encourage homes and businesses to install water-heating systems powered by solar energy.

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California to Subsidize Solar Water Heaters

California regulators on Thursday approved a $350 million program to subsidize the installation of solar water heaters to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

News Release | Environment California

California Takes Another Giant Step Toward Mainstream Solar Market

San Francisco – California took another major step toward meeting its goal of building a million solar roofs and making solar power a mainstream energy technology today with the adoption of a new $350 million rebate program for solar water heaters.

News Release | Environment California

President Obama Announces Clean Technology Tax Credit Awards to Spur Clean Energy Manufacturing

Seven California companies get a combined $235 million for solar manufacturing from technology tax credit awards.

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Sonoma Receives Solar Award

Environment California awarded Mayor Ken Brown and the City of Sonoma with a "2009 Solar Champion" award during the Dec. 16 City Council meeting. The award was given to Sonoma for having one of the largest concentrations of solar power in the state.

News Release | Environment California

Sonoma Given “Solar Champion” Award

Environment California awarded Mayor Steve Barbose and the City of Sonoma with a “2009 Solar Champion” award for having one of the largest concentrations of solar power in the state.

News Release | Environment California Research & Policy Center

Sonoma Given “Solar Champion” Award

Sonoma – Environment California awarded Mayor Steve Barbose and the City of Sonoma with a “2009 Solar Champion” award for having one of the largest concentrations ofsolar power in the state. According to Environment California, Sonoma has more than 250 solar roofs totaling more than 3,000 kilowatts of solar power capacity. This solar power concentration ranks Sonoma 5th in the state for solar power per capita.

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Going solar at cut-rate cost

In the San Fernando Valley, homeowners like Dickinson and his wife, Sara, a jewelry designer, have become the unwitting faces of the solar energy movement - residents who didn't set out to be green activists but for whom going green makes sense now more than ever.

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