CleanTechnica » Utilities 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 Report: Distributed-Renewables Disruption Will Reduce Utility Revenues By Up To $123 Billion A Year By 2025 http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/29/report-distributed-renewables-disruption-will-reduce-utility-revenues-us123-billion-year-2025/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/29/report-distributed-renewables-disruption-will-reduce-utility-revenues-us123-billion-year-2025/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:44:19 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76886 The ongoing growth of distributed renewable energy generation throughout the US and Europe will see utility-company revenues reduced by as much as $123 billion a year by 2025, according to a new report from the consulting company Accenture. That new report — titled the Digitally Enabled Grid report — clearly states that if the utilities wish to

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/29/report-distributed-renewables-disruption-will-reduce-utility-revenues-us123-billion-year-2025/feed/ 30 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 Solar Powered Cars, Top Solar Stocks (+ Other Solar Stories) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/16/solar-powered-cars-solar-news-3/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/16/solar-powered-cars-solar-news-3/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:50:01 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76426 In case you just can’t get enough solar news, analysis, and commentary, here’s a big link drop of good solar stories we haven’t already covered on CleanTechnica. Solar powered cars, solar trees, top solar stocks, and much, much more. Enjoy! Fun Solar EV Charging Rocks, But Which Option To Choose? Solar Trees For Solar-Powered EVs Solar

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/16/solar-powered-cars-solar-news-3/feed/ 0 A $48 Billion Opportunity For US Electric Customers http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/15/48-billion-opportunity-us-electric-customers/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/15/48-billion-opportunity-us-electric-customers/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:43:09 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76368 Originally published on ilsr.org. Electricity customers in the US got good news last week. A new report from Accenture highlighted a potential revenue loss for US utilities of $48 billion per year by 2025 due to distributed solar and energy efficiency. But where does that money go? If we pursue a democratic energy system as

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/15/48-billion-opportunity-us-electric-customers/feed/ 18 Arizona’s Largest Utility Plans Tax On Solar Leases http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/12/arizonas-largest-utility-plans-tax-solar-leases/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/12/arizonas-largest-utility-plans-tax-solar-leases/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2014 21:04:38 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76265 This headline on solar leases from an investment site caught my eye: “Solar Leases Set To Become Toxic in Arizona.” Drawing free renewable energy from the sun sounds like a grand idea to many – but not if you happen to be a utility company operating with a business model based on the selling energy. Solar, which once had

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/12/arizonas-largest-utility-plans-tax-solar-leases/feed/ 32 Solar & Wind Power Are Changing Net Load Shapes In California http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/11/solar-wind-power-changing-net-load-shapes-ca/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/11/solar-wind-power-changing-net-load-shapes-ca/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:00:03 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76203 Originally published on EIA. As more solar and wind electric generating capacity is added in California, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the electric grid operator for most of the state, is facing an increasingly different net load shape. Net load—the total electric demand in the system minus wind and solar generation—represents the demand that

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/11/solar-wind-power-changing-net-load-shapes-ca/feed/ 33 US Sees Second-Largest Solar Installation Growth In Q3 http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/09/us-sees-second-largest-solar-installation-q3/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/09/us-sees-second-largest-solar-installation-q3/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:35:58 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76087 The United States installed 1,354 MW of solar PV in the third quarter of 2014, up 41% over the same period a year earlier, and the making it the second-largest quarter of all time for the US solar industry, bringing the country’s cumulative solar PV capacity up to 16.1 GW. These numbers come courtesy of

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/09/us-sees-second-largest-solar-installation-q3/feed/ 8 25 MW Of Ice Energy Storage For Southern California Edison http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/22/25-mw-ice-energy-storage-southern-california-edison/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/22/25-mw-ice-energy-storage-southern-california-edison/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:43:35 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=75257 A company called Ice Energy, located in Glendale, CA, will be providing up to 25 MW of grid support to Southern California Edison in the form of water that is frozen at night when electricity is cheap. During a hot day, the ice is used for cooling in a rooftop air conditioning unit to reduce

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/22/25-mw-ice-energy-storage-southern-california-edison/feed/ 11 Negative Impacts of Rooftop Solar Will Fall on Utility Investors http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/18/negative-impacts-of-rooftop-solar-will-fall-on-investors/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/18/negative-impacts-of-rooftop-solar-will-fall-on-investors/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:45:50 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=75100 Negative impacts of rooftop solar will fall on investors: potential earnings could drop +40% in some scenarios. Ratepayers will be relatively unaffected

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/10/high-network-charges-can-solar-pv-shocker/feed/ 14 6 Lessons Retail Electricity Pricing Can Learn from Parking Apps http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/03/6-lessons-retail-electricity-pricing-can-learn-parking-apps/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/03/6-lessons-retail-electricity-pricing-can-learn-parking-apps/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:48:35 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=74431 Rocky Mountain Institute. Even as some foretell a coming future of smart parking—part of a broader ongoing evolution toward intelligent transportation systems (ITS)—a third-party-driven revolution in parking (and its pricing) is already here. That revolution has come by way of a recent proliferation of parking apps for smartphones. Retail electricity pricing is similarly poised to

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/11/03/6-lessons-retail-electricity-pricing-can-learn-parking-apps/feed/ 0 Clean Power Research Lowering Solar Soft Costs by Bringing Interconnection Processes Online http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/30/clean-power-research-lowering-solar-soft-costs-bringing-interconnection-processes-online/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/30/clean-power-research-lowering-solar-soft-costs-bringing-interconnection-processes-online/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:09:13 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=74211 Clean Power Research — a solar research, consultation, and software development firm — recently won the Innovative Solar Partner of the Year Award for its work cooperating with utilities to bring distributed solar interconnection processes online via proprietary software. By bringing said processes online, some of the “soft costs” associated with solar energy can be

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/30/clean-power-research-lowering-solar-soft-costs-bringing-interconnection-processes-online/feed/ 0 Minister Obuchi Quits, + Japan Feed-In Tariff & Energy Update (In Depth) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/22/minister-obuchi-quits-japan-feed-tariff-energy-update-depth/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/22/minister-obuchi-quits-japan-feed-tariff-energy-update-depth/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:55:22 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=73508 March 2011—when the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami devastated four reactors and endangered two others at Fukushima 1—forced a radical rethinking of Japan’s energy picture that continues today with a Japan feed-in tariff program. In the latest round, the utilities are pushing back against the feed-in tariffs and the fruitful development of solar power. To review,

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/22/minister-obuchi-quits-japan-feed-tariff-energy-update-depth/feed/ 9 China’s 21st Century Dilemma: Development and Carbon Emissions http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/06/chinas-21st-century-dilemma-development-carbon-emissions/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/06/chinas-21st-century-dilemma-development-carbon-emissions/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:00:24 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=72885 “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” That’s the paradox gripping China, the world’s most populous nation. A new seven-year study by researchers from the University of East Anglia relates China’s carbon dioxide emissions to the country’s accelerating economic growth. The results, published today in Nature Climate Change, illustrate the dilemma of development and

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/06/chinas-21st-century-dilemma-development-carbon-emissions/feed/ 5 Why Utilities Don’t Invest More In Solar (VIDEO) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/02/utilities-dont-invest-solar-video/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/02/utilities-dont-invest-solar-video/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2014 16:20:06 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=72797 The threat solar power poses to utilities has been discussed time and time again. In the US, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) — the association that represents US investor-owned electric companies — has even warned its constituents about the potential “utility death spiral” that could come from solar and energy storage. But then the question rises: “So,

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/02/utilities-dont-invest-solar-video/feed/ 16 The Only Grid-Independent Village In The World? http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/02/grid-independent-village-world-feldheim/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/02/grid-independent-village-world-feldheim/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:23:25 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=72493 A little village in Germany, Feldheim, claims to be the only 100% grid-independent village in the world. It is a rural community that switched to renewables for financial reasons, but is now visited by thousands and thousands of people. The tour guide who showed us around noted that his most interesting group was when he had

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/02/grid-independent-village-world-feldheim/feed/ 14 Another Utility Solar Charge Bites The Dust http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/30/another-utility-solar-charge-bites-dust/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/30/another-utility-solar-charge-bites-dust/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:00:50 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=72604 Solar Love. Black Hills Power was considering a special demand rate for all renewable energy customers instead of a reward for installing solar panels that help with grid security, grid reliability, energy independence, the environment, and public health. The idea for the charges didn’t make customers happy, however. As such, the solar charge was withdrawn by the South

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/30/another-utility-solar-charge-bites-dust/feed/ 18 Both Red & Blue States Green On Energy, Stanford Says http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/13/red-blue-states-green-energy-stanford-says/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/13/red-blue-states-green-energy-stanford-says/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2014 09:11:24 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=71778 With Congress squelching innovation in Washington, we need to look to the states for policies green on energy. A study released by Stanford University and the Hoover Institution this week (The State Clean Energy Cookbook: A Dozen Recipes for State Action on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy) cites 12 innovative projects being implemented by almost 20

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/13/red-blue-states-green-energy-stanford-says/feed/ 5 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 Do You Blindly Buy Cars From Auto Dealers? http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/09/blindly-buy-cars-auto-dealers/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/09/blindly-buy-cars-auto-dealers/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:14:57 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=71747 Cost of Solar. We all like to think of ourselves as rational people, but the fact of the matter is that we all make economic decisions that are not rational at all. But many of these decisions are so common or engrained in our way of life that we don’t even realize it. Consider this:

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