Green Building & Sustainable Development 

Walgreens Opens New Drugstore Utilizing Geothermal Energy in Oak Park, IL Walgreens today 

announced the opening of the nation's first drugstore chain location to utilize geothermal energy for heating and cooling.

CertainTeed Gypsum Introduces Sustainable Gypsum Board that Improves Indoor Air Quality CertainTeed Gypsum introduces a revolutionary and ground-breaking approach to improving indoor air quality with AirRenew gypsum board.

Boeing to Mass-Produce Industry's Most Efficient Solar Cell.

The Boeing Company announced that Spectrolab, a wholly owned subsidiary, has started mass production of its newest terrestrial solar cell with an average conversion efficiency of almost 40 percent.

Scientists Produce Transparent, Light-Harvesting Material

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory have fabricated transparent thin films capable of absorbing light and generating electric charge over a relatively large area.

Solar Electricity (PV)

Photovoltaic systems convert sunlight into electricity to power your home or business. PV is quickly becoming popular as a reliable, low-maintenance, clean, low-cost energy alternative. Solar electricity allows you to be as energy independent as you choose, while lowering your utility bills and carbon emissions. It’s particularly popular with our customers in Florida, Georgia and the Caribbean where there’s an abundance of free sunlight. Solar panels come in a variety of styles for mounting on the ground or on rooftops.

Solar Water Heaters

Our customers love their solar hot water systems. Solar thermal technology has been perfected over many decades to provide a greater abundance of hot water than possible with electric or gas heaters – all with the sun’s free energy. Because the initial investment is small and the monthly savings are large (reducing the average electric bill by 25%), solar water heaters provide a quick return on investment. A popular option for homes, offices and factories, solar water heaters offer low-cost, low-maintenance hot water year-round.

Solar Pool Heaters

Compared to gas or electric heaters, solar pool heaters offer the only affordable option for homeowners who want to enjoy their pools year-round. Pool owners throughout the Southeast and Caribbean swim comfortably ten months of the year, or more, with solar-heated water. Still greatly misunderstood, solar energy can easily heat your pool in the high 80s and low 90s – and yes, that’s how most of our customers like their pool water. Most homeowners simply can’t afford to maintain such temperatures using gas or electric heaters.

Solar Lighting

“Day-lighting” is a common term for harnessing natural light to illuminate internal spaces. By designing windows and other openings to work with reflective surfaces, we can bring in sunlight to maximize your visual comfort and reduce energy use. “Solar tubes” are a popular day-lighting product for both new construction and remodeled homes to dramatically brighten dim internal spaces. SunWorks also offers solar landscaping products for night-lighting in exterior spaces using free energy.

Solar Attic Fans

Proper attic ventilation is vital for reducing your heating/cooling costs and for releasing trapped moisture. Passive vents that rely on wind to circulate attic air have been a requirement in building codes for many years. Solar attic vents provide more effective results because they harness the sun’s free energy to assure constant air circulation with little maintenance.

Solar panel mounting

Solar Panel Mounting Fossil fuel is the biggest source of energy being used from many decades that is the reason it has become short many people are beginning to look for alternative sources for energy. At first they have looked on coal because our earth is full of coal reserves and they are not used that much but at last after research they have find out although coal can be main source of energy but it have many side effects in which the main one is pollution and it can cause damage to ozone layer. Then on second option they have found out that’ solar energy means sun light can be utilized in alternate to fuel based energy production. Sun is the greatest source of fuel for mankind .Solar energy is the best way for solving the planet’s energy crises. A person can make its own photo voltaic cells called solar panels. The ones which a person can make in home cannot be as powerful as those which are made from silicon. But they work on the same principals.  Onc...