i cant find it anywhere, all i can find is places that will install the panels for you and how you can get a quote on it

Here’s a good site that has a good selection, with prices listed, for everything you’ll need to build your own solar energy system.

I need this information for my project so please make the numbers as recent as you can get, 2007-2010 the best.
Even a percentage will work because I need this for a project.

NREL just released that data for the US on the website below. You will have to enter all the zip codes for San Jose and add up the numbers. I typed in 95101 and there were 19 installations.

Is it possible to store energy from solar panels for night?

There are a number of ways to produce small amounts of energy at night from solar panels. Here is an example of one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roLWoFIjkrI&feature=PlayList&p=7EAE21AC4AFE6F7B

Electricity is more difficult to store. Putting electricity on the daytime grid and taking power away later is more like a banking system than storage but the results can be the same. If everyone were using solar energy power lines would have to wrap the globe to keep the power flowing.

Electricity can be shifted to other energy trapping means which are later used to produce electricity. Pumping water behind a dam, chemical bonds in batteries, pressure in a compressed air energy storage system, flywheels, and splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen are all methods that have been used to store energy to later produce electricity. Only ultra capacitors store electricity directly as a charge. Of these batteries are the most energy dense and efficient method but they are heavy and expensive.

Energy can also be stored as heat. Thermal solar panels are many times more efficient at collecting the sun’s energy than photovoltaic panels. The heat energy is stored in a thermal mass like water, concrete or stones. Phase change materials can store much higher amounts of heat that is locked into a change of phase from solid to liquid or liquid to gas. It is possible to use stored heat to produce electricity. This is what power plants do. But thermal solar panels would have to b used to run a stirling engine. This has already been done with parabolic dish solar collectors with commercial success.

A solar chimney stores its own heat at night which is extracted with wind turbines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCGVTYtJEFk

I have been thinking about getting solar panels for my house. What do you think I should get? Companies? Prices?

I also have another question. How much energy can a small solar panel produce?

A small panel will not produce much power. When people put solar electric panels on their house with the goal of saving money, they generally put up a lot of large panels – 200 or 500 square feet worth. Its hard to save money with just one panel.

The only way to get close on how much it will cost and whether that represents a savings is to get out your electric bills for the past year, and call a local solar installer for a quote. The system on our house cost $20,000 and we got back $8,000 in incentives, so $12,000 net. It can save money, but that will be over many, many years.