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Perhaps the best thing about getting older is that you have the opportunity to watch dreams turn into reality. Solar power from photovoltaic cells was just an expensive, impossible dream back in 1970 when I was an 8th-grade student at East Junior High in Aurora, Colorado, celebrating the first-ever Earth Day. In this article, I’ll talk about the roots of solar power, the first practical uses on spacecraft, and how companies and individuals are now taking advantage of the sun to produce clean, inexhaustible energy.

OWC's newest locations follow a long company tradition of solar panel array installations Our Green Future OWC has opened two new facilities – one that has recently been equipped with the maximum in solar capability, and the other soon to...

Sustainability Is Good Business OWC believes that environmental stewardship is the right thing to do for future generations. It also makes good economic sense. OWC has worked tirelessly to build sustainable practices into all levels of our business operations. The...

Mount Pyramid and Pyramid Lake, Jasper National Park, Jasper, Alberta, Canada This is the last of our Tips for Travelers 2019 series, bringing you helpful hints on how to travel with confidence with your tech gadgets anywhere you go. Today...

OWC announced today on Earth Day that as part of the company’s sustainability program, it will soon produce enough on-site wind and solar power to cover all energy needs for four facilities in three states (Illinois, Texas and Nevada), becoming completely energy...

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, announced Tuesday that the company has made a 25-year solar energy agreement with First Solar Inc. to power its California operations. In what Cook called the company’s “biggest, boldest and most ambitious project ever,” Apple...