These days, solar is one of the most popular words in the green lexicon. You hear it everywhere, with most of the talk focusing on the increasingly large solar power plants that are now being built. New designs have dropped the price of large scale solar electricity generation by over 80% in the last 25 years to a level that is now closing in on standard grid prices. Factoring in government subsidies puts solar over the top and has motivated the current boom in planning and construction. For the first time, solar energy is being taken seriously as a potentially major power source.

But there is another side of solar energy that continues to capture the public’s imagination in ways that large industrial size power plants simply can’t. It’s the grass-roots development of business and home size power generation systems that

Solar Energy Initiatives Inc. is dedicated to reducing the world’s dependence on fossil fuels by selling thermal and photovoltaic (PV) technologies while building a profitable company. To this end, they are developing one of the fastest growing dealer networks in the U.S. to sell and install solar solutions to homeowners as well as commercial customers.

The company recognizes that energy from the sun can be used in different ways. Most obvious is the sun’s light, which is used everywhere, via windows, skylights, and solar tubes. But the sun’s thermal energy has been used for a long time for passive solar room heating, hot water and pool heating. And improving technology has now led to an increasing use of the sun’s energy to generate electricity, not only in large solar power plants, but at the individual home and business level.

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The name Hybrid Technologies is a little deceiving for the Mooersville, North Carolina based car company. Their vehicles are not the traditional hybrid, but are fully electric vehicles that use Hybrid Technologies’ proprietary battery technology to propel a reliable and cost efficient vehicle. Electric vehicles from Hybrid can create considerable savings to the owner, operating at a savings of 80-90% per mile.

Common misconceptions about electric vehicles are that they are unreliable and will send electric bills through the roof. Thanks to the cutting edge research and development that is being done by Hybrid Technologies, their vehicles are emission free. Even when taking into consideration the pollution created by the plants generating, the electricity the average electric vehicle generates 98% less pollution than gas vehicles. Battery Electric Vehicles are also among the most dependable vehicles made. They have less than 1/10th as