Solar Ready Building Design Guidelines      
Guidelines that address specific site planning, building form, space planning, roofing, and mechanical and electrical issues during the design phase of solar ready buildings.

Solar Ready Construction Specification      
Specification that explains how to prepare a building for the future installation of a solar system.

Solar Modeling Resources
A list of financial analysis, modeling and decision making tools for solar compiled by Sandia National Laboratory.

Unglazed Transpired Solar Collector Technology Overview (.pdf)
An unglazed transpired solar collector can be used to preheat ventilation air using incident solar energy.  The Solar Wall Report (.pdf) is performance analysis done by Minnesota State University, Mankato on solar walls in Minnesota.

Hiring a Renewable Energy Contractor
Questions to ask a renewable energy contractor; includes a list of solar and wind energy contractors in Minnesota. Note: the contractors list will only be available until June 30, 2012. We will refer to a new resource.