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Solar News

April 22nd, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan

We’ve published about 24 solar energy stories in the past week. In addition to those, here are some other [&hellip

Distributed Solar PV to Increase 18% p.a. to 2015, Growing Pains Notwithstanding

April 13th, 2012 | by Andrew

Continued price reductions along with new residential financing options and owner financing business models will continue to drive healthy growth rates in distributed solar PV as governments scale back incentives, according to a Pike Research report

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Solar, Renewable Grid Parity, or Better, in California’s Latest Renewable Power Auction

April 6th, 2012 | by Andrew

Yes, that's right: grid parity is here, well in California at least...and a lot faster than most ever thought possible. The weighted average highest cost of solar and other renewable power contracts accepted by California utilities in the state's Renewable Auction Market (RAM) auction amounted to 8.9 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for 20-year power purchase contracts, the Vote Solar Initiative reported March 30. Though this doesn't include transmission costs, $0.089/kWh is well below the average residential electricity cost of 15 cents per kWh in California in 2011, and that's the weighted average highest cost of the accepted offers to the state's electricity distributors

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Solar Policy Can Change When Solar Hits Grid Parity by a Decade

April 5th, 2012 | by John Farrell

In their excellent interactive graphic, Bloomberg Energy Finance calls solar grid parity (when electricity from solar costs less than [&hellip

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Solar Grid Parity in North Carolina (New Study)

March 20th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan

As John Farrell noted in an article in January, grid parity is a complicated matter (and doesn’t take into account important [&hellip

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Solar “Learning Curve” & “Golden Goal” (Bloomberg Charts)

March 15th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan

Along with the fun charts just released by SEIA and GTM Research yesterday, Bloomberg just released some pretty awesome ones [&hellip

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Mapping Solar Grid Parity

March 6th, 2012 | by John Farrell

Within a decade, 100 million Americans could get cheaper electricity from rooftop solar — without subsidies — than is provided [&hellip

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Solar is an Asset, Not a Cost — Why Focus on Grid Parity? (Reader Comment)

January 13th, 2012 | by Guest Contributor

Got this great comment on a post on solar and grid parity yesterday and wanted to share it with [&hellip

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Solar Grid Parity 101

January 12th, 2012 | by John Farrell

Solar grid parity, when installing solar power will cost less than buying electricity from the grid, is considered the tipping [&hellip

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2012 Solar Expectations

January 2nd, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan

Expectations cause a lot of problems — without expectations, we couldn’t be disappointed. However, it’s impractical not to have any [&hellip

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Here Comes the Sun – The Chart Paul Krugman Left Out

December 12th, 2011 | by John Farrell

This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. Nobel [&hellip

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Nuclear Impractical — Global Price on Carbon & Solar Grid Parity to Change the World (VIDEO)

November 15th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan

Jonathon Porritt, Co-founder of Friends of the Earth and Founding Director of Forum for the Future, reiterates what Dr [&hellip

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Solar Power’s Path to Grid Parity {Infographic}

July 12th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan

SunRun, a leading home solar leasing company, created the following infographic on solar power's path to grid parity recently. I ran across it on Global Warming is Real and thought it was worth a quick share

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New York City can go solar cheaper than grid power

July 1st, 2011 | by John Farrell

The City University of New York (CUNY) released a solar map of New York City last week, allowing building owners in the city to determine the amount of solar power their roof could host. The cumulative impact is enormous, with city rooftops capable of providing half the city's peak power, and 14% of its annual electricity consumption