CleanTechnica » US solar http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 Solar Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels… Again (+ Other Solar News) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/28/solar-cheaper-fossil-fuels-solar-news/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/28/solar-cheaper-fossil-fuels-solar-news/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:33:37 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76869 Here’s more solar fun for some lazy Sunday (or Monday after Christmas) reading. Enjoy! Solar $$ Solar Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels For New Chilean Projects? UK Solar Installations Still Offer Excellent ROI Peer-to-Peer Financing For Residential Solar Rolled Out In Arizona Living the EV/PV Dream: How I Chose to Pair My Solar System With an Electric

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/28/solar-cheaper-fossil-fuels-solar-news/feed/ 0 Australia Falls Out Of The Top 15 Utility-Scale Solar Countries http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/04/australia-falls-out-of-the-top-15-solar-energy-producing-countries/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/04/australia-falls-out-of-the-top-15-solar-energy-producing-countries/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2014 06:30:16 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=74447 RenewEconomy. Sophie Vorrath. The global utility-scale solar market has clocked its fifth consecutive year of record growth, with newly released data showing total capacity has now reached 30.3GW, up from 21.5GW at the start of 2014. Figures released on Tuesday, along with the chart below, show that at the end of September the US was

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/04/australia-falls-out-of-the-top-15-solar-energy-producing-countries/feed/ 8 Renewable Energy = 10% of US Electricity Generation In August http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/02/us-electricity-generation-update/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/02/us-electricity-generation-update/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2014 12:03:11 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=74383 UPDATE November 3: This article (including the top 3 charts and top table) has been updated to correct numbers used for fossil fuel and nuclear sources. I previously used “Table 1.1. Net Generation by Energy Source: Total (All Sectors), 2004-August 2014 (Thousand Megawatthours)” of the EIA’s Electric Power Monthly report for those sources, when I

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/02/us-electricity-generation-update/feed/ 41 Renewable Energy = 68% of New Electricity Capacity In September http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/02/renewable-energy-68-new-electricity-capacity-september/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/02/renewable-energy-68-new-electricity-capacity-september/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2014 09:17:21 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=74379 The latest monthly numbers on electricity production capacity additions have been released by FERC. The result is another big month for renewable energy… and natural gas. As you can see in the first chart above, wind power accounted for the majority (61%) of new power capacity. Natural gas accounted for 19%, nuclear 12%, and solar 7%.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/02/renewable-energy-68-new-electricity-capacity-september/feed/ 30 Solar Grid Parity In All 50 US States By 2016, Predicts Deutsche Bank http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/29/solar-grid-parity-us-states-2016-says-deutsche-bank/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/29/solar-grid-parity-us-states-2016-says-deutsche-bank/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:30:44 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=74190 RenewEconomy. Rooftop solar PV will reach grid parity in 50 US states by 2016 – up from just 10 now – setting the scene for a dramatic increase in the uptake in household and commercial rooftop solar in the world’s biggest economy. That’s the prediction of Vishal Shah, the leading solar industry analyst at Deutsche Bank, who

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/29/solar-grid-parity-us-states-2016-says-deutsche-bank/feed/ 65 Top Solar Charts From Huge IEA Solar PV Report http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/17/top-solar-charts-iea-solar-pv-report/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/17/top-solar-charts-iea-solar-pv-report/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:00:19 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=73541 The newest edition of the Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme report was recently released by the IEA — detailing a huge quantity of different aspects of the global solar PV market as well as country- and region-specific solar PV markets. This 19th edition of the report provides a number of highly interesting/useful graphs, some of which are posted below. Providing

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/17/top-solar-charts-iea-solar-pv-report/feed/ 2 SolarCity & Vivint Solar Dominate Home Solar, HELCO Aims For 92% Renewables… (Solar News) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/08/solarcity-vivint-solar-home-solar-helco-vivint-solar-ceo/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/08/solarcity-vivint-solar-home-solar-helco-vivint-solar-ceo/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2014 20:32:35 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=72993 From the home solar market domination of SolarCity & Vivint Solar to the success of solar schools in the UK to an interview with the CEO of Vivint Solar, check out the fun and interesting solar power stories below. Our own Jake Richardson interviews Vivint Solar CEO Greg Butterfield regarding Vivint Solar’s IPO and other matters.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/08/solarcity-vivint-solar-home-solar-helco-vivint-solar-ceo/feed/ 0 Chinese Solar Panel Production To Double, Big Corporations Going Solar… (Solar News) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/09/history-of-solar-solar-news/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/09/history-of-solar-solar-news/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:52:09 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=71634 More solar news for you solar lovers: Chinese solar panel production is projected to double by 2017. (sustainablog) Apple, Verizon, Google, UPS, Walmart, Kohl’s, IKEA, GM… there are a lot of big corporations investing in solar now. Remember, corporations are primarily aimed at financial profits. Put 1 and 1 together. (Solar Love) Hawaii is aiming to

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/09/history-of-solar-solar-news/feed/ 2 Americans & Australians May Disagree On Solar Leasing http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/21/americans-australians-may-disagree-solar-leasing/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/21/americans-australians-may-disagree-solar-leasing/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:50:15 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=70909 Rocky Mountain Institute. By Robert McIntosh. On a recent trip to Australia, I noticed that very few residential solar systems are leased. The vast majority are customer owned. Talking to industry experts, some claimed more than 90 percent of residential solar systems in Australia are customer owned. This is in stark contrast to the U.S., where

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/21/americans-australians-may-disagree-solar-leasing/feed/ 41 Rooftop Solar May Reach Grid Parity In 25+ States By 2017 http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/20/rooftop-solar-may-reach-grid-parity-25-states-2017/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/20/rooftop-solar-may-reach-grid-parity-25-states-2017/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:20:09 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=70857 In just three years, new numbers tell us, more than half of the states in the US may have rooftop solar available at the same price as the local grid’s electric rates. And that’s even without considering state and local incentives! The Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists has just published a series of three quick

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/20/rooftop-solar-may-reach-grid-parity-25-states-2017/feed/ 40 Solar News: Recycling Solar Water Wheel, Vivint Solar Rundown … http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/19/solar-news-recycling-solar-water-wheel-vivint-solar-rundown/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/19/solar-news-recycling-solar-water-wheel-vivint-solar-rundown/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:50:11 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=70833 Time for some more solar news. Enjoy! The solar-powered water wheel pictured above can collect 50,000 pounds of trash per day. (Solar Love) If you want a rundown of the politics of solar energy, this article by Carter Lavin is it. He covers 5 things we should all know about solar politics. (Red, Green, and Blue)

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/19/solar-news-recycling-solar-water-wheel-vivint-solar-rundown/feed/ 1 Solar May Become Cheaper Than Wind In 5 Years http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/31/solar-may-become-cheaper-wind-5-years/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/31/solar-may-become-cheaper-wind-5-years/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:50:01 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=70025 Originally published on RenewEconomy. One of the world’s biggest solar manufacturers and project developers, the US-based First Solar, has predicted that utility-scale solar costs in Australia will halve over the next five years, becoming cheaper than wind energy by 2020. First Solar says this should mean that large-scale solar takes up an increasing amount of

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/31/solar-may-become-cheaper-wind-5-years/feed/ 41 Solar Energy News Buffet http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/26/solar-energy-news-buffet/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/26/solar-energy-news-buffet/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:00:23 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=69875 As noted in an article yesterday, I’ve been very busy in the past month (well, months…) moving into a new home and following the birth of a sweet little cleantech lover. Inevitably, “roundup articles” of important or interesting cleantech news we didn’t cover dropped off as a result. With a big backlog of stories I wanted to

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/26/solar-energy-news-buffet/feed/ 5 300 MW Of Solar Approved By City Of Los Angeles http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/16/300-mw-solar-approved-city-los-angeles/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/16/300-mw-solar-approved-city-los-angeles/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:30:11 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=68037 250 megawatts (MW) of the 300 MW that were recently approved by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) will come from the Beacon solar project located in Kern County, the LADWP recently announced. The other 50 MW will be solar projects developed in the inner city. The total number of homes that could

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/16/300-mw-solar-approved-city-los-angeles/feed/ 7 SunPower Solar Systems To Save Five Schools In Pajaro Valley, California $380,000 Annually http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/28/sunpower-solar-systems-installed-five-schools-pajaro-valley-california/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/28/sunpower-solar-systems-installed-five-schools-pajaro-valley-california/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:50:14 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=65968 Five schools in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District will soon be home to high-efficiency SunPower solar power systems, according to recent reports. In total, the planned installations will make up about 1.2 MW of new solar capacity. The school district estimates that — based on its current utility rates — the solar energy generated

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/28/sunpower-solar-systems-installed-five-schools-pajaro-valley-california/feed/ 1 US Energy Sector Slow During First Quarter http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/25/us-energy-sector-slow-first-quarter/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/25/us-energy-sector-slow-first-quarter/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:30:14 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=65919 Originally published on the ECOreport. Though more than 50% of the new electrical installations during the first quarter of 2014 were solar, it is nothing to brag about. The numbers are down across the board. Even the number of solar projects is down, compared to last year. Fossil fuels were especially hard hit. No no new coal

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/25/us-energy-sector-slow-first-quarter/feed/ 10 92.1% of New Electricity Capacity From Renewables In 1st Quarter of 2014 http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/20/92-1-new-electricity-capacity-renewables-1st-quarter-2014/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/20/92-1-new-electricity-capacity-renewables-1st-quarter-2014/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:50:25 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=65656 Marking renewable energy project growth is fun and exciting, but more important is to put it into broader perspective. How much is renewable energy growing compared to other sources? How much of our electricity capacity and supply does it account for right now? How much is it cutting our use of fossil fuels? This Solar

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/20/92-1-new-electricity-capacity-renewables-1st-quarter-2014/feed/ 28 World Solar Power Capacity Increased 35% In 2013 (Charts) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/13/world-solar-power-capacity-increased-35-2013-charts/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/13/world-solar-power-capacity-increased-35-2013-charts/#comments Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:50:43 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=65306 With about 37,007 megawatts (MW) of solar PV power installed in 2013, world solar PV power capacity increased about 35% to 136,697 MW. Whereas Europe had dominated annual growth for years up until 2013 (10 years, to be precise), solar PV growth was much more evenly split last year, and China actually topped the tables.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/13/world-solar-power-capacity-increased-35-2013-charts/feed/ 37 China Is #1 In Renewable Energy Investment, US #2, Japan #3 (CHART) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/05/china-1-renewable-energy-investment-us-2-japan-3-chart/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/05/china-1-renewable-energy-investment-us-2-japan-3-chart/#comments Sat, 05 Apr 2014 22:43:30 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=64957 With record-breaking solar installations in the US, and solar actually coming in as the #2 source of new electricity capacity in 2013, you might think the US was the #1 market in the world for renewable energy investment. Of course, if you follow how much renewable energy China is installing… or if you just read

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/05/china-1-renewable-energy-investment-us-2-japan-3-chart/feed/ 24 Morgan Stanley: US Could Have 129 GW Of Commercial Solar By 2018 http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/07/morgan-stanley-us-129-gw-commercial-solar-2018/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/07/morgan-stanley-us-129-gw-commercial-solar-2018/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:10:20 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=63518 Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath. The installed capacity of solar PV in North and South America will increase more than tenfold over the coming years, jumping from 13.1 Gigawatts (GW) in 2013 to 138.8GW by 2030 – according to a new report from consulting firm GlobalData. The research – which encompasses key solar

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