Recommend a solar forum

[7acres]

My wife and I are set on pursuing a solar investment. Time to up my solar IQ. When I needed to do that for our wood stove purchase I found this forum and the kind helpful crowd here.

Looks like The Green Room will be a good resource. But can you recommend a forum dedicated to solar, especially one friendly to folks like myself who want to learn everything and design, buy and build it all out myself?

 

[begreen]

Not a forum but this is a nice resource.
http://www.builditsolar.com/
This forum has a fair amount of traffic.
http://www.solarpaneltalk.com/forum.php

 

[jebatty]

Talk to people/businesses who have had solar installed. You can learn a lot by touching and feeling installed systems and learning from the experiences of those who have gone before you.

 

[peakbagger]

I participate on Solarpaneltalk. There was one difficult member "Sunking" who was not user friendly (but quite knowledgeable) but he appears to have gone away(for now). Arizona Wind and Sun has a forum that is also quite active.

One thing with solar is unlike wood, the rules change depending on what utility rate plans are in effect and what incentives are available in each state or utility area. You have to design with one eye on what is the right fit and what lines up with the incentives and rate plans that apply.

 

[denjohn]

This is a retailers site but is has heaps of great educational info.
http://www.altestore.com/store/

 

[Woody Stover]

I'm new to the forum ... this is my first post ...I received a call from NRG

You might find some info using the search feature. If not, I would start a new thread with a title that will draw attention to your question, which is somewhat buried in this thread...

 

[begreen]

moved to a new thread. not really a strong green room topic though.