A Public Rooftop Revolution In Pictures
June 22nd, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org There are a lot of stories on residential rooftop solar but few if any on what [&hellip
Author Archives: John Farrell
Dear Hawaii: Read Your Mail Before Your Utility Sells Out
June 15th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org If your electricity—generated from imported oil—is the most expensive in the country and your solar resource [&hellip
Why Haven’t Cities Covered Their Buildings in Solar?
June 8th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org The city of Beaverton, OR, is getting a new solar array that will offset energy use [&hellip
Don’t Count On It: First City-Utility Clean Energy Work Plan Short On Specifics
June 2nd, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org On Friday, the nation’s first clean energy partnership between a city and its utilities released its [&hellip
“Lower Cost Solar” A Utility-Scale Fig Leaf For An Outdated Monopoly Model
May 26th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org In his Sunday Wall Street Journal commentary on May 17, Brian Potts suggests that cost is [&hellip
Solar Parity Coming Faster Than Expected
May 22nd, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org. Back in 2012, ILSR released a pair of reports on the solar Rooftop Revolution, noting that [&hellip
How & Why Utilities Make Solar Look Expensive
May 13th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org In February, I visited the folks at Sustainable Tucson in Arizona who are puzzling over their [&hellip
Are We Sunk? The Electric Utility’s Titanic Problem
May 5th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org. In my recent report on the utility business model of the future, I laid out 5 pillars [&hellip
Value Of Solar Q&A — A Square Cheeseburger In A Round Hole
April 29th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org In 2013, Minnesota was the first state to adopt a value of solar policy as an [&hellip
Can Other Cities Match Georgetown’s Low-Cost Switch To 100% Wind & Sun?
April 15th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally published at ilsr.org This is probably not the first place you’ve read about Georgetown, TX, the town of 55,000 [&hellip
How To Maximize Renewable Energy Options For Santa Fe, NM
April 6th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org. Santa Fe, NM, is battling with its electric utility, PNM, over the utility’s continued heavy reliance [&hellip
Electricity’s Un-Natural Monopoly
April 1st, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally published on ilsr.org The US electricity system is undergoing the biggest change in its 130-year history, undermining the rationale for [&hellip
Lifting State Limits On Local Power
March 26th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally published on ilsr.org In the first half of 2014, distributed local solar power constituted over 25% of new power plant [&hellip
Small Solar Surging: 13% Of New US Power Plant Capacity In 2014
March 16th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org. The growth of solar has continued at a furious pace, with a new record of 6.2 [&hellip
Is Energy Efficiency The More Persistent Threat To Utilities?
March 9th, 2015 | by John Farrell
While local renewable energy and energy efficiency are both proving to be near-existential threats to electric utilities in the early [&hellip
Importance Of Third-Party Solar To Kickstarting A Solar Market
March 3rd, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org. In about half of US states, an individual or business can have solar installed on their [&hellip
Are Utilities or States the Leaders in Renewable Energy & Efficiency?
February 26th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally published at ilsr.org. A June 2014 study by Ceres highlighted the top electric utilities for renewable energy and efficiency. [&hellip
We Have “Value for Solar,” But Should We Use It?
February 19th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org. Earlier this year, Minnesota became the first state to formalize dozens of studies by adopting a [&hellip
Solar Power Can Spark A New Energy Economy
February 11th, 2015 | by John Farrell
Originally posted at ilsr.org. I spent three days last fall with some of the biggest minds behind the “new economy” [&hellip
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