A decade ago, wind power was already basically cost-competitive with conventional power sources, utility-scale solar was significantly more expensive but starting to bloom, and electric vehicles were hardly a blip on the horizon and basically unknown to most of us. How did that change in the past 10 years?
Many of our most popular articles of the year concern the “fight” between solar power beneficiaries and utilities*. The distributed solar revolution is afoot, and talk of war, fighting, revolution, and the death of utilities is hot. Sometimes it seems to go a little further than is warranted, but I … [continued]
A couple of big solar records were set in Q1 2013 in the US. For one, 49% of all new US electricity generation capacity came form solar, the most ever for a first quarter. Secondly, 723 MW of solar power capacity were installed and put online, again a Q1 record for … [continued]
Reposted from RenewEconomy: On May 17, 2010, E.ON, the biggest electricity utility in Germany, opened a brand new 860 MW combined cycle gas-fired power station in Bavaria, which it had built at a cost of $520 million. Less than three years later, having hardly been used and losing money, the … [continued]
One of the planet’s leading clean-tech entrepreneur’s, Danny Kennedy, has launched a new book that hopes to debunk myths surrounding the solar industry, and unveil some simple methods that the public alongside policymakers can use to help generate positive change in the energy industry. The book, Rooftop Revolution: How Solar … [continued]
I just received this rather interesting email from the Solar Energy Industries Association. Thought it was worth a share here on CleanTechnica (images added).
