For the third consecutive year, Brighten has been chosen as a solar installer for the Community Environmental Council’s (CEC) Solarize program! Installers are selected through an extensive vetting...
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2019: A Bright Year for Solar Energy
Unlike fleeting trends that come and go with the seasons, solar energy remains a steadfast environmental and financial investment...
Brighten Solar’s Project Director Receives NABCEP Certification
We are pleased to announce that our very own Jeremy Favier, Co-Founder and Project Director of Brighten Solar Co...
Brighten Solar Co. Celebrates Earth Month
It is only fitting that Brighten Solar Co. has its headquarters in Santa Barbara, the town where Earth Day was founded in 1970...
Solar Leads The Way In Q1 Of 2016
1,665 megawatts of solar PV were installed in the United States during the first quarter of 2016 adding more new electrical...
Solar Forecasts
2016 is expected to be another incredible year for solar in the U.S. and in the world. In all, about 7.4 gigawatts of solar photovoltaics have been built in 2015 in the U.S., surpassing 2014's record total of...
Why Santa Barbara and the Southwest climate is becoming drier
Do you ever wonder what could be causing such...
The Net Zero energy revolution has already begun
In 2007, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) adopted the aspirational goals that all new residential constructions in California...
Brighten Solar Co. at Solarthon 2015!
Last Saturday, Brighten Solar Co. was part of the central coast solar volunteers at GRID Alternatives Central Coast Solarthon 2015 in Los Alamos...
Obama’s Clean Power Plan
On August 3, president Obama unveiled the Clean Power Plan, calling it "the most important step America has taken in the fight against global climate change." The Clean Power Plan sets achievable...