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]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Matthew Crosby and Enes Hosgor There are now over 50 million smart meters deployed across the United States, with millions planned for installation by ComEd in Illinois, by Consumers Energy in Michigan and many other utilities domestically and internationally. Smart meters measure and transmit customer load … [continued]
Originally published on Oilprice.com by Henry Hewitt What would the world look like if electric cars took the lead in market share by 2030? “Couldn’t happen,” you say? Consider the ramping up of some of the most basic items that have conquered the American market over the past century. Refrigerators … [continued]
Originally posted at ilsr.org The city of Beaverton, OR, is getting a new solar array that will offset energy use at an underground reservoir, saving taxpayers $95,000 per year, with no upfront cost. Ventura County, CA, has a 1-megawatt solar array on its jail facility that’s cash-flow positive. Denver, CO, … [continued]
While everyone shares the risk of climate changing, one of the most vulnerable groups on earth is the people who live in the small islands of our oceans. Their low elevation and small size make them especially vulnerable to rising sea levels; their fragile ecosystems are easily destroyed. Three international … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Experts say new housing estates may be built that do not connect to the grid, offering instead free electricity, and even free EVs to residents. Meanwhile, numerous towns are looking how to buy back their grid. Imagine this: Newly built housing estates that are not even … [continued]
Originally posted at ilsr.org In his Sunday Wall Street Journal commentary on May 17, Brian Potts suggests that cost is the bottom line in the electric customer shift to solar, and that rooftop solar costs too much. But his defense of the utility’s view of energy costs leaves a big … [continued]
The engineer and economist Bernard Chabot has written an article explaining how wind power capacity factors for new wind turbines could increase from about 40% to 60%. The article is titled, “The fast shift towards the « silent wind power revolution » in USA and the related huge energy and … [continued]
Americans are voicing more and more concern about unreliable and usually rising petroleum costs and the effects on climate of burning fossil fuels. In response this past week, Senator Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) and six other Senators introduced a bill in Congress that might alleviate these threats to economic and environmental … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Laurie Guevara-Stone Access to electricity is crucial for sustainable economic development. Yet 1.3 billion people around the world live without basic access to electricity. Many of these people rely on unhealthy polluting kerosene lamps for nighttime lighting. Those with access to electricity in the … [continued]
