Kansas Solar Energy

Small Solar Projects in Kansas - Information on solar projects in Kansas. This is a work in progress.

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Solar Maps and Resources

Kansas Solar Radiation map - Info from KCC, map by Coriolis

Kansas Solar Resources - Info from EREN, includes a solar maps of Kansas

PV Watts - A Performance Calculator for Grid-Connected PV Systems (NREL)

Solar and Renewable Energy News

K-State Energy Extension - Solar Energy information

Up with the Sun: Solar Energy and Agriculture, Union of Concerned Scientists

KCC Report: Cost Effective Solar Power in the Heartland
(Interstate Renewable Energy Council Newsletter, May 30, 2003)

Solar products - reviews and articles from Treehugger.com (webzine)

Energy Tax Incentives - Tax Incentives Assistance Project, information on how to use tax incentives for new renewable energy projects

Events

ASES National Solar Tour, Oct. 3, 2009

North American Solar Challenge, July 19-20, 2005

American Solar Challenge, featuring the K-State solar vehicle. 2003.

Solar Bike Rayce - Results and Info of the 2001 Rayce in Topeka

Heartland Sustainable Homes Tour - Home tours in the Kansas City, Lawrence, and Wichita areas

Kansas projects

Project Solar House, Solar Decathlon 2007 Kansas entry, K-State & KU

Dealers

Cromwell Environmental, Lawrence, KS, Kansas City & Columbia, MO, Denver, CO

Diamond Solar Solutions, Manhattan, KS, Kansas City

The Energy Savings Store - Prairie Village

Smalley Energy - Topeka

Sunwrights - Manhattan

News

Clifton-Clyde School District continues "green energy" education
(Salina Journal, December 20, 2009)

County Commission approves solar panel for roof of jail
(Lawrence Journal World, Dec. 17, 2009)

Thinking solar power? It’s never been more affordable
(Lawrence Journal-World, Oct. 25, 2009)

Taking a Dim View of Solar Energy
(Newsweek, August 25, 2009)

In Israel, solar power that won’t need subsidies
(Christian Science Monitor, April 28, 2009)

Final phase of Green Energy Resource Lab underway
(Shawnee Dispatch, Jan. 7, 2009)

Today’s Topic Is Solar Energy Systems
(The New York Times, April 19, 2007)
(Registration required)

Conference reveals that solar-powered streetlights are the wave of the future
(Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record, Feb. 4, 2007)

Easy Solar Power
(Mother Earth News, Oct./Nov. 2006)

Off the grid or on, solar and wind power gain
(USA Today, April 12, 2006)

Forget Computers. Here Comes the Sun
(New York Times, April 14, 2006)
(Registration Required)

Xcel bills to rise for solar rebates
(Denver Post, March 22, 2006)

Rebates put shine on solar power
(Denver Post, March 19, 2006)

K-State Students work on solar house
(Kansas State Collegian, Feb. 21, 2006)

Solar energy costs differ by city
(San Jose (Cal.) Mercury News, Nov. 28, 2005)

Suddenly, Those Solar Panels Don't Look So 1970's
(New York Times, Sept. 12, 2005)
(Registration required)

N.J. farms' latest crop: Solar power
(Wichita Eagle, August 08, 2005)

It’s Calgary or bust for solar dreamers
(The Kansas City Star, July 21, 2005)
(Registration required)

Sun eludes Topeka race stop
(The Topeka Capital-Journal, July 20, 2005)
(Registration required)

Solar cars to race into Topeka
(The Topeka Capital-Journal, July 19, 2005)
(Registration required)

Solar cars are powering their way to Topeka
(Lawrence Journal-World, July 19, 2005)

Farmers increasingly counting on sunshine for energy production
(Wichita Eagle, June 22, 2005)

Fill 'er up, with sun
(Topeka Capital-Journal, May 20, 2005)
(Registration required)

Solar industry losing power
(East Valley Tribune (Mesa, AZ), May 09, 2005)

Solar Energy News - Arizona Solar Center

Organizations

Kansas

Heartland Renewable Energy Society

United States

American Solar Energy Society

Links to Other Resources

Renewable and Alternative Energy Resource Index - Solstice

Links to Solar energy sites - Solar Energy International Renewables

Raw Data

30-Year Averages of Monthly Solar Radiation and Illuminence, 1961-1990 - includes data for Dodge City, Goodland, Kansas City (MO), Topeka, and Wichita

30-Year Average of Monthly Solar Radiation, 1961-1990 - includes data for Dodge City, Goodland, Kansas City (MO), Topeka, and Wichita

Averages of Solar Radiation For Each of 360 Months, 1961-1990 - includes data for Dodge City, Goodland, Kansas City (MO), Topeka, and Wichita

Typical Meteorological Year data files - includes data for Dodge City, Goodland, Kansas City (MO), Topeka, and Wichita

Solar Data from NOAA - includes data for Dodge City

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