Solar energy capacity in Minnesota takes a big leap in 2016 Minnesota’s solar energy capacity made great strides in the last year, and state officials don’t expect the pace of growth to slow down. By 2015, 35 megawatts of solar energy was generated, or enough to power more than 39,000 homes. Last year, that capacity … Continue reading Solar energy capacity in Minnesota takes a big leap in 2016
How and Why Las Vegas Embraced Solar Energy While it’s estimated more than 165,000 attendees walked through the convention centers, ballrooms and casinos at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, very few likely gave a thought to a growing source of energy that has been powering the city’s streetlights, offices and some … Continue reading How and Why Las Vegas Embraced Solar Energy
Utilities See Distributed Generation as a Challenge—and Owning It as the Solution A new survey found 82% of utility executives believe utilities should be able to own and rate-base distributed energy resources. Virtually all utility executives believe the industry’s century-old business model is changing and that utilities need to adapt. Where there’s less consensus is … Continue reading #Utilities See Distributed Generation as a Challenge—and Owning It as the Solution
Utilities, Solar Energy and the Fight for Your Roof By many accounts, the spread of solar power is unstoppable. Costs continue to fall at a blistering pace, solutions to give consumers a solar-powered home without needing to connect to the grid for back-up power are emerging, and even the U.S. Supreme Court has weighed in, … Continue reading Utilities, Solar Energy and the Fight for Your Roof
The Koch Brothers’ Dirty War on Solar Power After decades of false starts, solar power in America is finally poised for its breakthrough moment. The price of solar panels has dropped by more than 80 percent since President Obama took office, and the industry is beginning to compete with coal and natural gas on economics … Continue reading The #Koch_Brothers’ Dirty War on Solar Power
Buffett’s Bolshevik: Dissecting NV Energy’s Soviet-Style Sabotage Of Distributed Energy On Wednesday, Nevada’s Public Utility Commission (PUC) radically revised the state’s net-energy metering (NEM) rules, which determine the price utilities pay for electricity supplied by customer-sited solar panels to utilities. Under the revised NEM rules, utilities will pay significantly less for electricity purchased from customers … Continue reading #Buffett ‘s Bolshevik: Dissecting #NV_Energy ‘s Soviet-Style Sabotage Of #Distributed_Energy
Smart inverter market grows on rise of virtual power plants Virtual power plants, which combine the output from multiple energy sources and can ramp it up or down centrally to suit power-purchase agreement (PPA) requirements, are growing in Germany and the United States on the back of rising distributed energy generation, wider use of smart … Continue reading Smart inverter market grows on rise of virtual power plants
The U.S. needs a solar energy revolution. But it’s laying off solar energy researchers On Monday, Oct. 5, Stuart Farrell had planned to take the morning off from his job as a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo., after being awake all night taking care of his sick 2-year-old son. … Continue reading The U.S. needs a solar energy revolution. But it’s #laying_off solar energy researchers
SunEdison gets caught in energy downdraft For most of the past year, SunEdison Inc. could do no wrong in the stock market’s eyes. The solar energy sector was hot and, in a clever bit of financial engineering, SunEdison had spun off its completed projects into a separate company. This entity, a so-called yieldco, promised the … Continue reading SunEdison gets caught in energy downdraft
Two Numbers: Solar Energy’s Price Drop, Ahead of Schedule, Could Help Save the Planet Earlier this month, the White House announced the launch of a series of measures intended to make solar power more accessible to low- and middle-income households. Brian Deese, senior adviser to President Barack Obama on climate, said the administration aims to … Continue reading Two Numbers: Solar Energy ‘s Price Drop, Ahead of Schedule…
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