The US Marines are testing a new tricked-out vest that will power their portable electronic gear partly with solar energy. The goal is to relieve the logistical nightmare and physical challenge of carrying conventional batteries into the battlefield, enabling Marines to function effectively in remote or hard-to-supply locations for longer … [continued]
Leading solar power company SolarCity is set to start work on a mammoth 600-unit rooftop solar project for a housing complex at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, and a company higher-up has offered an interesting take on why projects like these will pound yet another nail in the … [continued]
If you have any doubts about solar power’s place in the US energy landscape, check out the new report from the Solar energy Industries Association (SEIA). Titled “Enlisting the Sun: Powering the US Military with Solar Energy,” the report details solar power systems at Army, Navy, and Air Forces in … [continued]
Whether you call it three-dimensional chess, rope-a-dope, or just plain old steamrolling over the opposition, the Department of Defense has been upping the ante on its renewable energy initiatives despite pushback from Republican leadership in Congress. In the latest maneuver, DoD has just joined with the Department of the Interior to … [continued]
When the Department of Defense privatized military housing back in the 1990’s, little did it know that those homes would become the platform for the largest residential solar project in American history. Well, they did. Last November, the solar installer SolarCity announced that it would build about $1 billion in … [continued]
The U.S. solar energy company SunPower is the latest target of Fox News’s apparent campaign to paint the U.S. solar industry as a doomed-to-fail enterprise, only this time Fox has put the bite on Dow Jones, one of its own sister companies in the NewsCorp media empire. According a report … [continued]
