Resources for the Washington DC area

Some Great Solar Power Websites
 

Renewable Energy Access This site has very good coverage of news stories on solar and renewable energy. It's a good place to check for conferences and other events.

Small solar electric systems from the Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) office.

Real time monitoring software demo (This is geothermal, not solar.) This is pretty neat; it's the software display for a homeowners heating and cooling system. It updates every minute. While this is for geothermal, in a general sense, it's the type of monitoring display you can get for a solar water heating or solar electric system. You could see what your system was doing, and control it from anywhere over an internet connection. click the above link to see the live data.

Oct. 2005