UPDATE: Multiple tornadoes touched down in the St. Louis region Friday night and caused damage to several Lambert–St. Louis International Airport buildings, including the hangar reserved for Solar Impulse. The flight remained scheduled, and the Lambert–St. Louis International Airport mobilized its forces to help Solar Impulse reorganize and confront this extraordinary situation. Solar … [continued]
Well, alright, it hasn’t happened yet. But listening to various panelists talk about consumer research they’ve conducted, it’s clear the public wants solar power much, much more than nuclear. Sustainable Brands 2013 launched with a day of workshops on a wide range of topics, with all sorts of interesting news. The panels I sat in ranged from one on Life Cycle Assessment to one on Systems Thinking. Driving past San Onofre on the way down from LA, it looked as ominous dormant as it did when it was active. They’re threatening to re-open it, but with solar getting so cheap, is it really worth the risk?
This post first appeared on the US Energy Information Administration Site Recent developments in Virginia put a spotlight on feed-in tariffs (FITs), which are a policy mechanism used to encourage deployment of renewable electricity technologies. FITs are used to a limited extent around the United States, but they are more … [continued]
Energy policy leadership may be nearly nonexistent in Washington, D.C. due to partisan gridlock, but America’s states and cities are well on their way to a clean energy future – and California leads the charge, according to Clean Edge’s 2013 US Clean Tech Leadership Index.
This post first appeared on San Diego Loves Green by Roy Hales Borrego Solar systems has given the benefit of more than three decades of expertise to America’s school system. “We’ve worked with K-12 schools for years throughout the U.S. to deploy multiple megawatts of clean energy, saving them money … [continued]
A company called Off-Grid Solutions has committed itself to eradicating energy poverty for 1.5 billion people worldwide by leveraging sales of its signature product, the WakaWaka Power portable solar charger that combines a mobile phone charger and lamp. On that account we agreed to take a WakaWaka Power out on … [continued]
In the space of two days at the end of May three separate reports were released covering the soaring growth of Japan’s solar industry. Not only can solar replace nuclear power in Japan, but it is also set to become the world’s largest solar revenue market in 2013, thanks at … [continued]
Tina already had a great post wrapping up some of the key issues Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk discussed in Friday’s press call (in particular, the Zombie Apocalypse and 4th-generation Tesla car design), and I published an announcement about the greatly expanding Tesla Supercharger network before the call (the main … [continued]
Despite oversupply and thin module margins putting many solar suppliers out of business in the past two years, a new report suggests the industry is poised for a quick recovery, thanks to consolidated supply and demand. Lux Research’s upcoming report “Buying Low: The Solar’s Imminent Return to Health and Profitability” … [continued]
This article first appeared on the Lenz Blog Says Ashley Seager in this article at the Guardian titled “Renewable energy’s clean, cheap and here – what’s stopping us?” He knows that from his own experience running a company called AEA solar GmbH that is actually installing solar on German barn … [continued]
