This consultant report for the California Energy Commission is to provide tools and guidelines for the installer to help ensure that residential photovoltaic power systems are properly specified and installed, resulting...

This lesson provides an introduction to the use of the sun's energy. Topics include the history of solar energy usage and its more recent adaptations. There is also discussion of how the sun produces and radiates energy,...

The Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC) provides this presentation from Jay Burch of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The presentation may be downloaded as a PDF document, and it covers...

The Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC) provides this classroom activity for teaching students to design a small scale solar photovoltaic system. The class will use three small scale solar PV...

This resource, from the Pembina Institute, is part of a collection of hands-on projects on the topic of renewable energy. The page provides turn-key directions for a project to build a solar oven in secondary classrooms....