Solar Design Associates Designs Solar Arrays for the San Francisco Giants' AT&T Park
Solar Design Associates has been hired to design and oversee construction of three solar arrays at the San Francisco Giants' AT&T Park-- making it the first large-scale solar installation at an MLB park.
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SDA Volunteers For New Orleans Solar Installations
Solar Design Associates teamed with Sharp Solar to help rebuild in New Orleans, installing PV systems on New Orleans homes in the Lower 9th Ward.
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Utility-Scale Wind Turbine for Mass. Maritime Academy
Solar Design Associates teamed with Cape Wind's Jim Gordon and his Boston firm, Energy Management, and Massachusetts general contractor Jay Cashman to design, engineer and install the first state-owned wind turbine in Massachusetts-- a 660kW turbine at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Bourne.
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Tiger Woods Dedicates Solar-Powered Learning Center
Solar Design Associates designed two solar electric systems for the Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim, CA-- a flat roof system and a custom curved and sloped curtain wall system. The high-tech center offers educational programs to children grades 4-12.
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New England's Largest Solar PV System Online
Solar Design Associates has completed work on the largest photovoltaic system in New England, at the MassInnovation, LLC mill complex in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
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Boston's First Wind Turbine Serves as Example
Solar Design Associates partnered with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to install the first commercial-scale wind turbine within the City of Boston.
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Bush Energy Proposal a Program of Strength through Exhaustion
SDA President Steven Strong's guest column on RenewableEnergyAccess.com as a "Renewable Energy Insider" offers his critique of President Bush's latest energy plan.
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Solar Array to Power New Life for Massachusetts Mill Building
Solar Design Associates has designed a 147.3 kW solar array for MassInnovation, LLC's renovated mill complex--the largest solar array in New England to date.
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Solar Power Advocate Explores Possibilities
"In a dramatic demonstration last night, Steven Strong, president of Solar Design Associates, gave a lecture exploring the sustainability and cost-efficiency of widespread solar power to students, faculty, staff and others."
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Forbes Magazine Talks with Steven Strong About the Blackout-Proof Home
For Steven J. Strong, founder and president of Solar Design Associates, this summer's massive blackout is the best sales pitch he's ever had.
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U.S. Mission to UN Set to Go Green With Solar Project
Solar Design Associates has designed a 118 kW solar array for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, making it the first United States diplomatic building with a building-integrated solar electric (BIPV) system.
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Steven Strong Designs Three Renewable Energy Systems for Bush White House
Steven Strong was with President Carter when he dedicated the first solar energy application at the White House in June 1979. It was fitting, then, that Strong should be invited back 25 years later to design three new solar energy systems for the White House.
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Shell Solar, PowerLight System Captures Award
The MATCH School of Boston, Massachusetts has been recognized as one of the Northeast's most innovative, efficient, and resource-smart new architectural gems at the recent Northeast Green Building Awards in Boston. Solar Design Associates designed the school's 21.6 kW rooftop array.
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Time Magazine Names Steven J. Strong an Environmental Hero
"Strong has based his professional life on two design principles that he repeats like mantras--solar energy and energy efficiency," writes Christopher Hallowell of Time Magazine. "To counteract what he calls 'blissful ignorance' of solar energy among architects and policymakers, Strong criss-crosses the country to drum up acceptance."
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Solar Design Advances the Use of Solar Technology
"Dramatic leaps in the application of solar technology are being made in the architectural and engineering work of Solar Design Associates," writes Pat Murphy of the Environmental News Network (ENN). "The company uses large, custom-made photovoltaic panels as walls, atriums and skylights to generate power in new buildings."
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Five Experts Predict the Future of Solar Energy
In 1995, Wired Magazine asked five experts--Christopher Flavin, Frank Goodman, NREL, Donald Osborn, and Steven Strong--to shed some light on the future of solar power technology.
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