A Year After Launch, Major Solar Plant Apparently Running at Half Capacity More than a year after the formal launch of the nation’s largest existing solar tower power plant, its operators seem to be having trouble keeping it all the way online. According to records provided by California’s grid operator, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating … Continue reading A Year After Launch, Major Solar Plant Apparently Running at Half Capacity→
Renewable energy finally makes sense as a utility—and that’s why it’s becoming a threat to coal. When it comes to innovation, businesses often follow the lead of government. Take large-scale renewable power—especially solar. Before the 2009 stimulus package, solar power was nowhere in this country. But the same program that brought us the Solyndra debacle … Continue reading Renewable energy finally makes sense as a utility—and that’s why it’s becoming a threat to coal.→
San Antonio takes different tack on solar energy San Antonio is one of the leading cities for solar energy in the United States, with photovoltaic systems on nearly 2,500 roofs and a solar farm in the works that will power the equivalent of 70,000 homes. Leading the effort is Doyle Beneby, the CEO of the … Continue reading San Antonio takes different tack on solar energy→
Analysis: Developers study 5.3GW of solar in Texas Houston , 13 February (Argus) — Solar generation under study by developers in Texas has doubled in the past year, spurred by more-favorable project economics and the risk of less-favorable federal and state incentives. At 5,300MW, solar projects represent less than 9pc of the total 62,000MW in … Continue reading Analysis: Developers study 5.3GW of solar in Texas→
Texas solar jobs increasing HOUSTON — The number of Texans working in the solar industry increased last year by more than 2,800, a sign that the sector is making headwinds in the Lone Star State, according to a non-profit that promotes solar power. The solar industry employed 6,965 people in Texas in 2014, up by … Continue reading Texas solar jobs increasing→
Scientists Have Figured Out a Way to Convert Solar Energy Into Liquid Fuel The potential applications of solar power just got a whole lot wider Researchers at Harvard have discovered how to convert solar energy into liquid fuel, potentially accelerating our switch to the alternative-energy source, according to an article in this month’s scientific journal … Continue reading Scientists Have Figured Out a Way to Convert Solar Energy Into Liquid Fuel→
In W.Va., New GOP Majority Defangs Renewable Energy Law That Never Had a Bite In a largely symbolic move, West Virginia legislators have repealed a law that required utilities to generate a quarter of their power from renewable or alternative sources by 2025. The bill repealing the state’s energy portfolio standard passed 95-4 in the … Continue reading In W.Va., New GOP Majority Defangs Renewable Energy Law That Never Had a Bite→
How utilities are transforming their fuel mixes More than 80% of utility executives foresee distributed energy resources changing their company’s fuel mix in coming decades, according to Utility Dive’s new report, the State of the Electric Utility 2015. Nearly as many (79%) see their companies adding utility-scale solar. A very large majority see additions of … Continue reading How utilities are transforming their fuel mixes→
Reflecting on the Hottest Energy Industry Trends in 2014 Early last year I outlined predictions on some of the bigger trends that I thought were going to shape the retail energy industry. It’s time to take stock on how I did. In 2014, predictions alluded to the following: 1) the pace of U.S. solar deployment … Continue reading Reflecting on the Hottest Energy Industry Trends in 2014→
Report: Wind and solar energy have tripled since 2008 We worry a lot about the problem of climate change. And we try to fix it — again, again and again — by changing how the country uses energy. What we don’t stop and ponder enough, though, is that the country is changing how it uses … Continue reading Report: Wind and solar energy have tripled since 2008→
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