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Brightfields
This program redevelops abandoned or contaminated property through the incorporation of solar energy technologies.

Energy Information Administration
The EIA Web site provides policy-independent data, forecasts, and analyses to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding regarding energy.

Energy Savers: A Consumer Guide
This Web site features a whole range of information on how consumers can save energy and use renewable energy technologies.

Green Power Network
This Web site features news on green power markets and utility pricing programs, both domestic and international, as well as information on power providers, products, issues, and policies.

High-Performance Photovoltaic Project
This project encourages research to improve the performance of existing photovoltaic technologies. Participants include DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, several universities, and photovoltaic manufacturers.

Million Solar Roofs
This Web site provides information on an initiative to install solar systems on one million rooftops by 2010.

National Center for Photovoltaics
This Web site, sponsored by DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has outreach activities and information about photovoltaics.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The NREL Web site includes information on renewable energy and energy efficiency research, development, and deployment, as well as news, publications, photos, and much more.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory Clean Energy Basics
This Web site explains the basics of renewable energy technologies, as well as the importance of energy efficiency. It includes specific information for homeowners, small business owners, inventors, students, teachers, and electricity providers.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory High-Performance Buildings Research
This Web site highlights research using whole-building design methods and computer programs that integrate energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory Publications Database
This bibliographic database includes technical reports, fact sheets, brochures, videos, books, journal articles, conference papers, patents, and exhibits developed by NREL.

National Solar Thermal Test Facility
NSTTF is operated by Sandia National Laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy. This test facility is devoted to the development of the use of solar energy.

Photographic Information eXchange (PIX)
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory maintains this online collection of several thousand photos related to renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.

Photovoltaic Manufacturing Technology
PVMaT is a R&D; partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy and members of the U.S. PV industry to help U.S. industry improve PV manufacturing processes and equipment.

Photovoltaics Subject Portal
This portal site provides access to scientific and technical reports developed for the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as news releases and links to journal literature and other information related to photovoltaics or solar electricity.

PVWATTS: A Performance Calculator for Grid-Connected PV Systems
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, PVWATTS calculates electrical energy produced by a grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system. PVWATTS can be used for locations within the United States.

Renewable Electric Plant Information System
The REPiS online database contains information on renewable energy generation capacity, covering all technologies.

Renewable Energy Analytic Studies Network
This Web site from DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory includes news, reports, tools, and data related to the analysis of renewable energy technologies.

Renewable Energy Annual 2000
This Energy Information Administration online report presents 1999 data on renewable energy consumption, capacity, electricity generation, and U.S. solar and geothermal heat pump manufacturing.

Renewable Resource Data Center
The RReDC Web site provides information, including maps, on renewable energy resources in the United States, as well as an extensive dictionary of related terms.

Renewables for Sustainable Village Power
This Web site gives an overview of the RSVP program and its projects, which bring electricity to rural areas. It includes the analytical models used and a library of documents.

Sandia National Laboratories Photovoltaics Program
This U.S. Department of Energy project seeks to ensure that photovoltaic systems perform to their potential. This is achieved through focused research and systems development integrated with the needs of manufacturers and users of systems and components.

Solar Decathlon
In 2002, student teams from the U.S. will gather to build energy-efficient, solar-powered homes to see which team can capture, convert, store, and use the most solar energy. The site includes a description of the contest, schedule, RFP, and rules.

Solar Energy Technologies Program
The program accelerates the development of solar technologies as energy sources and educates the public about the value of solar energy.

Solar Radiation Resource Information
This Web site from the U.S. Department of Energy presents Archived Data, Data Collection Activities, Solar Codes, Algorithms, Models and Calculators, and Publications.

Tribal Energy Program
The Tribal Energy Program provides financial and technical assistance to tribes for feasibility studies, and shares the cost of new sustainable renewable energy installations on tribal lands.

TroughNet
This site provides an overview of parabolic troughs including the costs involved with implementation, information on projects in development and that are already deployed, and the latest news in research and development.



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