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Solar Subsidies Article in Wall Street Journal Misses The Beat

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:50:43 +0000

Originally published on Cost of Solar. Generally speaking, reading and debunking horrible clean energy or electric vehicle stories in the mainstream media is not something I enjoy doing. But someone has to do it, and since I’ve been studying cleantech in depth for several years now and am in the blogging business, that someone seems

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Distributed Solar PV Benefits & Costs

Zachary Shahan — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:00:48 +0000

This article first appeared on Solar Love. The Rocky Mountain Institute’s eLab has created a new report on solar power benefits and costs (distributed solar PV benefits and costs, to be specific). This is a critical effort, and a very useful report to help that effort along. Better valuation of distributed solar PV (DPV) is sorely

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The “Value Of Solar” Could Be Worth Much More Than Austin Energy Pays

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:00:26 +0000

I recently wrote a long post on the idea of using a “value of solar” policy instead of various types of government incentives for solar. Much of that post was based on research conducted by Clean Power Research for Austin Energy — so that Austin Energy could implement a Value of Solar policy (which it

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True Value of Solar Power

Zachary Shahan — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:24:47 +0000

I wrote recently on the costs of wind power and how they compare to the costs of traditional forms of power like coal and nuclear when you take externalities and other subsidies into account. I was going to wait until I wrapped up our "comprehensive wind power page" to write on this topic for solar power, but a new report out from the Institute for Local Self Reliance pushed me into the topic a little early.

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