A proposed hotel complex on Florida’s Treasure Coast could serve as a model for environmental sustainability. Such a vision would balance community concerns while attracting a clientele that seeks out green businesses and pays more for eco-friendly products and services.
If you’re like us and want to speed up the clean energy revolution, decarbonize your life, save on your electric bill, and make your home more resilient, you have a few options to run your home and vehicle on clean energy. In most cases, this means harnessing the power of … [continued]
Cool, green and solar panel roofs can
The United States is entering a clean energy boom thanks to once-in-a-generation investments made under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). In just seven months following the IRA’s passage, the industry announced over $150 billion in utility-scale clean energy — equivalent to five years’ worth of … [continued]
When you talk to anybody about solar+storage, one name always comes up: Tesla. The Tesla Powerwall was far from the first time anybody stored solar power in batteries at home, but it was light-years ahead of what people used to do with big banks of lead-acid batteries like something you’d … [continued]
Green Mountain Power in Vermont is expanding its residential battery storage plan to more customers after a ruling by the state’s PUC.
Sun Exchange says the purchase of solar cells in bitcoin demonstrates the power of cryptocurrency and innovative fintech to advance the clean energy transition and address the impact of South Africa’s pressing energy crisis on schools and other organizations. Sun Exchange, a global solar leasing platform, today announced that a … [continued]
The fact that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provides clean energy benefits might be surprising to some people, or perhaps confusing because of the act’s name, which is unrelated to energy. The recent peak inflation period doesn’t, on the surface, have much to do with solar power and energy storage, … [continued]
Heat pumps and solar panels rule in the UK this June. In fact, it has been a bumper year for all green energy upgrades — batteries included — a 62% increase over 2022. As I sit here in the winter sunshine in Brisbane, Queensland, I remember my 18 months working … [continued]
In December of 2022, the California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously to alter the rules regarding net metering for customers with rooftop solar systems. Net metering requires utility companies to pay customers for the excess energy those solar arrays send back to the grid. It is the thing that drove … [continued]
