A Solar Roof That Only Comes Out When The Sun Is Shining
A company in Switzerland, Kronberg, and its partner, St. Gallish-Appenzellische Kraftwerke (SAK), have created something unique with solar.
Rooftop Solar
Tesla’s Next Frontier — The Tesla Home
On the Tesla earnings call last Wednesday, July 22, Elon mentioned the renewable energy stack for the home. Tesla was focused on the big three: collection (solar), storage (Li-on batteries), and consumption (transport). These are indeed three defining parts of the renewable energy cycle for private persons.
Tesla’s Latest Moves In Solar Indicates It Is Either Crazy Or Has Made A Breakthrough
Tesla’s innovations in solar are not recognized by either Wall Street or even most Tesla followers as a success. The story peddled by many who don’t want Tesla to succeed (the short sellers and those about to be disrupted, but I repeat myself) is that Tesla only bought SolarCity to bail out Elon Musk’s cousin’s Peter and Lyndon Rive, who had cofounded the company.
Solar-Powered Car Delivers Zero Waste Wholesale To Zero Waste Retail Store: The Future Is Now
I may be the world’s biggest fan of Zachary Shahan. (His wife and kids may argue…). When Zach first gave a talk entitled “The Future is Now,” it sort of became the ad-hoc tagline for CleanTechnica. And it’s true — all the solutions we need are right here, right in front of us.
Blockbuster Sunrun/Vivint Merger Challenges Tesla Solar Ambitions
Sunrun has acquired Vivint Solar to become the largest roof top solar company in America.
Duke Energy Florida Plans To Double Its Solar Power Capacity
Duke Energy Florida is seeking approval for a $1 billion 750 MW community solar program.
Virginia School District Going Solar In A Big Way
A Virginia school district, the school district for Orange County Public Schools, has contracted Secure Futures Solar to put solar panels on 8 of the school district’s facilities. They combine for a capacity of 2.5 megawatts (MW), quite a bit of power.
10 Bonus Solar News Stories
There was plenty of positive solar energy news this month. Aside from the 63 solar stories we’ve published so far, below are 10 more stories that seem worth looking at even though we didn’t take time to explore them in detail.
Florida Leading Large Solar Power Growth In US Southeast
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) has been promoting and tracking clean energy in the US Southeast for many years. It now puts out an annual Solar in the Southeast report. Along with state comparisons on megawatts of solar installed, policy, and other matters, SACE actually calculates and shares installed solar capacity per customer for states and utilities.
7 Bonus Solar + Storage Stories — Sonnen, Sunrun, Stem …
There’s only so much time in the day — a lesson I seem intent on not learning. We’ve published many solar energy articles in the past month and many energy storage articles, but here are 7 more solar plus storage (solar+storage) articles we just couldn’t dedicate full articles to.
