News: Stimulus adds tax credit for home solar panels — San Francisco Chronicle

Stimulus adds tax credit for home solar panels — San Francisco Chronicle Homeowners interested in sticking solar panels on their roofs got a big boost from the $787 billion economic stimulus package signed Tuesday by President Obama. Homeowners will now be able to get a federal tax credit worth 30 percent of the cost of [...]

News: Solar roofing tiles comes to tract housing

Solar roofing tiles comes to tract housing — CNet News.com Call it building-integrated solar power for cookie-cutter housing. DRI Energy has developed roofing tiles with solar cells built in them. For commercial customers, it has solar panels that literally glue onto flat roofs. The products, branded under the Lumeta name, will be available in the [...]