Indiana Solar’s Koch Problem
There are too many obstacles standing in the way of the inevitable.
Utilities
Utility Customers Want More Energy Efficiency, Home Solar
If an intransigent utility happens to go extinct while being replaced by SolarCity or Google, that’s fine too.
Ten Lessons From Earth’s Top EV Cities
From China’s EV vending machines to California’s autonomous EVs from Google.
Solar Power Grows, Utility Profits Shrink
Few shed a tear for the 15 percent haircut utilities profits will suffer.
IPPR: Utilities Dying, Go Solar
Now it’s calling for the immediate replacement of obsolete utilities with distributed energy.
In 2025, Earth Will Be Solar Powered
“No longer for the environmentally conscious; it is for the masses.”
Stop Crying, Utilities: Home Solar and Net Metering Aren’t Your Problem
Utilities need to chill, according to Department of Energy brain trust.
SolarCity’s Manufacturing Shifts Solar Boom
Did I mention that Silevo is locally sourced down the street from SunPower in California?
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.”
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.
Renewables Dethrone Dinosaur Utilities
“The question is not if or even when the change will come, but rather, how fast.”
Arizona Needs Solar Utilities
Protracted and unnecessary turf battles for utility and residential control of the state’s solar bounty could stall governor Jan Brewer’s emPOWER Arizona.
Solar Growth Greens Industry Future
Solar stocks are astronomically higher than they were years ago. And so is your investment portfolio, if you have been brave enough to throw some skin into the game.
SolarCity Crowdfunds The Solar Boom
In the last year, SolarCity’s common stock has gone supernova, from the $10s to the $70s at the speed of light.
Can Rewiring the Home for DC Power Increase Solar Adoption?
AC/DC evidently can just get along, long after Thomas Edison and Nikolai Tesla’s bitter war.
Five Ways Elon Musk’s Future Industries Could Change the World
Tesla Motors, SolarCity and more are already helping save us all from a cli-fi apocalypse.
Why Is Solar The Bad Guy In CPUC’s Report?
It’s a bold claim and a startling number. But both are wrong.
Nine Earth Day Films That Will Make You Think
From rapidly acidifying oceans and shortsighted deforestation to perpetually pollutive wars and the propping up of obsolete markets, Earth is taking killer blows that we’re going to seriously regret delivering.
California’s Unregulated Fracking Problem
Punch the term “fracking” into DOGGR’s search today and you’ll receive a white screen with the perhaps accidentally ironic query “Did you mean: cracking” in response.
Chemical Catastrophe, Coming Right Up!
Responsibility for chemical security may be shared among federal, state and local governments, as well as the private sector. But right now they’re all epically failing us, which make us sitting ducks if there is a catastrophe.
UN: Climate Crisis Attention Lacks Ambition
They would rather wait until the climate crisis has already ripped the roof off the world as they knew it, before doing anything significant about it.