Solar States distributes Renogy solar panels

Recently, Solar States founder Micah Gold-Markel traveled to Wuxi, China to tour the Renogy solar panel manufacturing plant. The trip was a huge success with Solar States becoming a fully ...

Crane Arts Complete

They say go with what you know best. So we installed solar on the roof of our very own office, here at the Crane Arts Building. Located at 1400 N. American ...

Commercial Rooftop Solar

Solar States is actively looking for rooftop power purchase agreements (PPA) in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, and Massachusetts. We partner with commercial building owners to generate 100% renewable energy for ...

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Solar States owns and operates the largest rooftop solar array in the ...

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Latest News

Solar panel tariff much smaller than expected

Good news for the solar industry came out of the Commerce Department today. The dark cloud of a major tariff on Chinese manufactured panels had been hanging over the head of the industry ever since Solar World filed anti-dumping claims with the International Trade Court (ITC). However, the Commerce Department wisely decided on a much lower tariff than had been rumored.

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Solyndra – What’s really at stake

Recently the Solyndra bankruptcy has been grabbing a lot of headlines. Most of them are permutations of “Obama tainted by Solyndra scandal” or  ”taxpayers money lost on Solyndra”. Mainstream media outlets are missing the point big time! The first misunderstanding is that a “failure” means that the government should not have made the investment. Instead, we [...]

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Solar States goes to China to partner with Renogy!

Recently, I traveled to China to tour the Renogy solar manufacturing facilites. Wow, it was truly an amazing experience!

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American Israel Business Lab opens in the Navy Yard

From the second floor of his new office, entrepreneur Randy Schulz can gaze across the Delaware River; past the decommissioned Navy vessels and utility trucks of South Philadelphia’s Navy Yard, past the struggles of a local Philadelphia economy, all the way around the world to another economy in need of jobs, innovation and national unity. [...]

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Philadelphia Solar Legislation

The Department of Energy (DOE) has designated the city of Philadelphia a Solar City. But right here at home Solar States is working with Councilman Kenney’s office to make Philadelphia even friendlier to solar. First, Solar States is assisting with legislation that will allow solar installers to defer some of the cost pertaining to electrical [...]

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RECs For Sale

Solar State has some of the best renewable energy credits (RECs) money can buy. We generate urban rooftop solar power to create our solar renewable energy credits (SREC). This point-of-use system is far better for our aging electrical distribution infrastructure than wind farms situated far away from urban areas. Additionally, we believe in preserving our [...]

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Schools turning to solar power

New Jersey schools are moving to solar power! Check out this article on MyCentralJersey.com. We see this as a growing trend nation wide. It would be great to see schools that not only use solar power, but integrate it into their curriculum. Every solar installation has the opportunity to be a teachable moment, with the students monitoring [...]

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@SolarStates will be appearing at @WHYY for the @PhillyTechWeek Green Showcase

  Solar States will be appearing at Philly Tech Week TODAY at noon @ WHYY (6th and Race) for the Green Tech Showcase. We will be showing off our brand spankin’ new rooftop at the Crane Arts Building, our online solar monitoring system and showcasing a real solar panel. With this presentation, we will give [...]

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GREEN FOR COUNCIL: Incumbent Councilman Bill Green lives up to his name

We at Solar States are not in the habit of getting behind politicians. While energy is inherently a political game, we go where the sun shines brightest. But incumbent councilman Bill Green has brought his light to businesses like ours so often that we felt the need to wave the flag for his campaign. Wear [...]

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Flip Flip Flipadelphia!

It has been over a week since our Flip The Switch Gala took over the Crane Arts Building and the responses are still flooding in! We were so energized (pun intended) by all the supporters who came out to celebrate the opening of Center City Philadelphia’s largest rooftop solar array. There was state representative Tony [...]

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