Gary Braasch Solar and Climate Change

Sierra sun tower, 5 MW commercial concentrating solar power (CSP) plant built and operated by eSolar, Lancaster CA
Sierra sun tower, 5 MW commercial concentrating solar power (CSP) plant built and operated by eSolar, Lancaster CA
Kramer Junction solar thermal electrical generating array near Bakersfield, California, one of three arrays generating total of 150 megawatts.
Maintenance truck navigates along parabolic reflectors at 150 megawatt Kramer Junction solar thermal electrical generating station near Bakersfield, California.
Solar roof of Moscone convention center San Francisco, 60,000 sq foot with 5,426 photovoltaic module panels creating 675 kW capacity.
Crew from Tom Ayres Construction installs PV solar and solar hot water panels on the roof of home near the ocean in Manzanita Oregon.
New efficient home, Lancaster CA, with solar panels, extra insulation, heat plump, efficient windows and appliances. Lancaster requires solar power on new homes.
Large curving array of PV panels being installed at a MAX light rail station in Portland Oregon, to help power lights in area.
The first highway solar panel installation, at Oregon's I-5/I-205 interchange near Portland, has 7000 PV panels for highway lighting.
The 1.1 mw solar array on a parking garage at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado is part of the energy-neutral research complex in the background.
Modern solar hot water on roof of St Regis Hotel, Aspen CO uses SunMaxx evacuated tube solar collectors.
Single PV panel (foreground) charging a car battery provides the light of a CFL bulb so a Kiribati family can read and work without burning kerosene. See Islands and Pacific.
Workman installs panels on roof of suburban house in California's initiative "One Million Solar Roofs."
The Bavarian village of Wildpoldsreid, Germany, has solar on almost 40 % of roofs, integrates biogas heat from surrounding dairy farms and 7 wind turbines to create all its energy — and more.
New Orlean’s Ninth Ward, devastated by the levy breech during Hurricane Katrina, has been partially rebuilt with innovative home designs including solar panels.
Dairy farm in Bavaria indicates the seriousness with which Germans have embraced the “Energiewende,” the national program to replace nuclear and fossil energy with solar, wind, biogas — and efficiencies.
The growing success of Germany’s clean power revolution — “Energiewende” — is shown in the Bavarian farm town of Wildpoldsreid which has solar panels, farm-waste biogas and seven wind turbines. Wind, solar, hydropower and biomass produced 27 percent of Germany’s total electricity.
New home in Ponchartrain Park, New Orleans, has solar roof along with energy saving insulation, geothermal heating and cooling and smart meters. Supported by actor Wendell Pierce.
Solar arrays are quite common at rice storage companies in the rice growing areas of the Sacramento Valley north of Sacramento. This one near Biggs, California.
Nevada Solar One, solar thermal parabolic power station on Highway 95 south of Boulder City Nevada, has maximum capacity of 75 mw, was built on 400 acres in 2007.
The Bullitt Center office building, built to beyond-LEED standards of energy saving and generation in the Living Building Challenge. Its oversize roof carries 575 solar PV panels and collects rainwater for all building uses.