Time of Use Electricity Rate Plans Explained: Challenges & Solutions To Maximize Your Savings
Balancing extreme swings in supply and demand of electricity has become a huge challenge for utility companies. Net electricity demand … [continued]
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Unlocking The Potential Of Commercial Rooftop Solar
Rooftop solar systems on commercial buildings, parking lots, and garages could lower emissions and provide good returns on investment.
Commercial Rooftop Solar On Warehouses Could Power All Of Them
Commercial rooftop solar on America’s warehouses could provide 185 TWh of clean renewable energy every year.
New US Solar Power Scheme Aims At Invisible Middle
COVID or not, it’s full steam ahead for eight innovative solar power projects that apply never-been-tried solutions to solar access problems.
100 Commercial Solar Projects Completed By Safari Energy With Self-Storage Company
Safari Energy recently announced it has completed 100 commercial solar projects in 13 states with the very large self-storage company Extra Space Storage. John Lind, Managing Director of Business Development at Safari Energy, answered some questions about the collaboration for CleanTechnica.
Tesla Announces Simple Pricing On Commercial Solar, $1.01/Watt (Will Blow Some Minds)
Yesterday, Elon announced California customers can now order commercial sizes of solar power in 5 minutes at Tesla.com/bigsolar. Instead of starting the process with a site survey or a roof inspection, Tesla just publishes this sizing guide and assumes the commercial customer knows the size of his or her roof. It isn’t about maximizing solar production, it is about simplifying the buying process. It’s easy to see the price per watt going down from $2.22 ($1.55 after the 30% federal tax credit) to $1.44 ($1.01 after tax credit).
US ITC Solar Tax Credit Decline Is Being Countered With Machine Learning
Commercial solar has significant untapped potential in the USA. Innovative companies such as OnSwitch Energy are working to maximize that, regardless of federal policies.
These Wunderkinds Have Turned The Commercial Solar Market On Its Head
Wunder finances small and midsize business’ solar energy projects (from about $100k to $5M), which community and traditional banking institutions avoid because of the complexity. Not only is this moving the needle when it comes to the commercial solar market, it’s proving to be a very successful model, and it has seen huge growth and impact over the past year.
Florida Lawmakers Act On Solar Amendment Approved By 72.6% Of Voters
Florida has many faces. One face strives to support clean energy and jobs being lit by the sun. In spite of the fact that a group of people cast their votes in this swing state toward a tragically absurd direction (choosing a political leader who is ecologically unaware, deaf, and blind), the state continues to move towards renewable growth — solar in particular. The Palm Beach Post reported that a bill to implement the constitutional amendment designed to expand the use of solar and other renewable energy devices is ready to go to Governor Rick Scott. It is now delivered to the governor’s desk. Time to act swiftly, governor.
Top 10 US Commercial Solar Developers Account For Only 42% Of Market
The top 10 commercial solar developers in the US only account for 42% of the total US commercial market, according … [continued]
