New research from GTM Research forecasts that the US community solar sector is to reach a tipping point soon, growing five-fold in 2015 and regularly reaching 500 MW by 2020. The forecast is central to GTM Research’s latest report, US Community Solar Outlook 2015-2020, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the … [continued]
Originally published on MinnPost. By Brian D. Stuart There has been heated controversy surrounding the community solar garden program Xcel Energy formally rolled out in December of last year. Solar energy is booming in Minnesota, but even Xcel was surprised by the number of program applications received – particularly the number … [continued]
Cologne, Minnesota, is a town of about 1,500 near Minneapolis. It recently decided to power all of its facilities with renewable electricity from solar power — in fact, community solar. 2,700 solar panels in SunShare solar gardens will provide the electricity. They are being constructed under Excel Energy’s Solar Rewards Community … [continued]
Solar Energy has provided an intriguing report about shared solar and how its happens to be working in France. I follow with keen interest the impact clean energy programs such as these have, not just on selected communities, but on energy utilities as well. This is an interesting one. FuturePerfect, where … [continued]
In its latest Utility Solar Market Snapshot (2014, published last month), the US Solar Electric Power Association offers renewable energy interests some welcome news: solar energy is becoming increasingly attractive to utilities. Since the shale gas boom, solar has become the fastest-growing power source in the nation, and the Solar Energy … [continued]
Those that live in Minnesota and want to get a better idea of exactly what’s on offer as far as utility-company-backed community solar programs go should be happy to hear that the Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) recently published a regional map on the subject. The map — which is … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. A new solar agreement marks a key milestone for South Carolina customers in the Duke Energy service area. Enhancing Duke Energy’s Distributed Energy Resource programs, the new proposals are designed to grow solar capacity in the utility company’s South Carolina service area from about 2 megawatts to … [continued]
Originally published on SolarLove.org Putting climate change in the classroom in new and exciting ways, Solar Schools offers a totally unique way to crowdfund clean energy for UK schools. Run by 10:10, a UK-based charity helping to tackle global warming, the Solar Schools program has helped schools raise £470,000 ($724,785) … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Tendril is a Denver-based software company that has created a new program to help utility companies identify customers for community solar projects. The software will also provide critical information to customers about their community solar experience. According to a study by the US Department of … [continued]
It’s been awhile. Catching up after the busy trip to Vancouver for Renewable Cities has taken some time, and I now have a quite long list of extra solar power, wind power, and other clean power stories to share. If you have some time, stroll through these and click on whichever ones … [continued]
