Chances are, you know if your neighbor has solar panels on their roof–the shiny black photovoltaic panels are a dead giveaway.

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Covert Solar Power? Dow’s Solar Shingles for Rooftops are Burglar-Proof (Fast Company Magazine)

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TEWKSBURY — It has become this decade’s buzzword, and soon it will come to Tewksbury.

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Green light on panels (Lowell Sun)

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Having solar panels has cost some Victorian households more on their power bills after they lost entitlements to cheaper rates because an electricity company has installed different meters without notice.

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Solar panel users hit with higher power bills (The Age)

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Murrieta is exploring a program that could make solar power a more affordable option for homeowners.

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Murrieta considering program to help homeowners go solar (The Press-Enterprise)

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Southampton Town highway superintendent candidate Alex Gregor of Hampton Bays is pushing a plan to lease sections of one of the town’s landfill to a contractor to install solar panels.

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Campaign Diary: Gregor pushes plan for solar panels at town landfill (The Southampton Press & The East Hampton Press)

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INCENTIVES for households and businesses to install solar panels have been slashed by more than a third in four months.

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Energy unit slide hits solar rollout (Adelaide Now)

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The village of Port Byron’s future will be looking sunny after solar panels for its wastewater treatment plant operation are up and operating.

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Port Byron gets federal grant for solar panels (The Auburn Citizen)

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Solar panels will soon be installed to heat water at the Pitt County Detention Center. The Pitt County Board of Commissioners approved an agreement with Halocene, a Raleigh-based renewable energy company, to install solar collectors to supplement the center’s existing hot water system.

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Solar panels to be installed at detention center (The Daily Reflector)

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Dow Chemical Co., the largest American chemical maker, said sales of new roofing shingles that incorporate solar panels may reach $5 billion by 2015 as the product expands the market for photovoltaic building materials.

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Outlook bright for solar shingles (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

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The Dow Chemical Company today unveiled its line of DOW POWERHOUSE Solar Shingle, revolutionary photovoltaic solar panels in the form of solar shingles that can be integrated into rooftops with standard asphalt shingle materials.

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DOW(TM) POWERHOUSE(TM) Solar Shingle Unveiled – Groundbreaking New Technology for Affordable Solar Power (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

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