In 2025, Earth Will Be Solar Powered
“No longer for the environmentally conscious; it is for the masses.”
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Shining Light On That Solar Panel Shortage
File this under good news masquerading as bad.
Stop Crying, Utilities: Home Solar and Net Metering Aren’t Your Problem
Utilities need to chill, according to Department of Energy brain trust.
US Solar Growth Needs Aussie Efficiency Boost
Competitors are schooling the U.S. by taking a day or less to build a system.
Solar Leaders’ Good, Bad News
California didn’t do it alone.
Deal With It: The Legend of Korra
“I am certainly proud to add Korra to the pantheon of TV characters, which is perpetually sorely lacking in multifaceted female characters who aren’t sidekicks, subordinates or mere trophies for male characters,”
Used EV Batteries For Home Solar Storage
They’re just more dead weight without proper recycling
Nissan’s Free LEAF Charging Plan
Electric vehicles, and their proliferating charging stations, are fast becoming our new transportation normal.
Mosaic, Enphase Push Home Solar Ownership
Suddenly, leasing just lost a little more luster.
Clinton Initiative Boosts Solar Carports
PACE solar financing has caught the attention of a certain well-connected president.
SunPower, KB Home Bring Energy Storage to Solar Suburbs
Resilience is what has propelled solar power to the renewable energy forefront.
Fossil Fuel’s State Fight Against Solar
Petrochem billionaires Charles and David Koch are spending and lobbying like mad.
Summer Solstice Puts Solar On It
The longest day of the year…
Legend of Korra Can Save Us From Ourselves
We are accelerating toward a real-time extinction the show could help us solve, should we choose to embrace it.
SolarCity’s Manufacturing Shifts Solar Boom
Did I mention that Silevo is locally sourced down the street from SunPower in California?
YieldCos Spread The Solar Boom
Now it’s renewable energy’s turn to reap the rewards of fancy math.
New York High-Risers Bill Accesses Solar
How about building some offsite shared renewable facilities?
International Solar Boom Continues
In 2013, policy uncertainty in the United States and parts of Europe helped bring down global investment.
PACE Financing Offers Reasons To Go Solar
Companies offer investors bonds collateralized by annual property tax assessments, and everyone lets the sunshine in.
US-China War Bad News for Home Solar
The solar war backstory is lame enough to keep short.
Microgrids 101, In Three Parts
Micrqogrids are essential defenses for a dawning age of distributed generation capable of surviving the sudden, expensive superstorms of climate change.
The Future of Microgrids
But much of the changes we need will come from customers who can’t get what they want from the grid, concluded Asmus. “Ten years out, microgrids will be an everyday, non-controversial decision.”
EPA Climate Regulations Strengthen Solar
State or federal, the plan should be solar, argued SEIA.
People and Places Making Microgrids Work
Current efforts by utilities to stifle cleantech takeovers of the macrogrid, from solar taxes to worse, are being successfully fought off, as global warming throws ever more challenges in the way.
Microgrids: A Cleaner, More Resilient Grid
Microgrids make sense for a world where lighter and cleaner is better. Especially if you want to pack an increasingly powerful punch on a destabilized planet with problems.