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Some financial analysts believe most car companies cannot sell electric cars at a profit. But there are some things that are more important than...
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Some financial analysts believe most car companies cannot sell electric cars at a profit. But there are some things that are more important than...
The conventional wisdom in electricity generation is that scale matters. But this outdated notion rests on the assumption that electricity generators compete only in...
What do grid customers actually pay for distributed solar, when taking into account the cost of delivery and the portion of energy that solar...
On December 5th, I delivered a webinar presentation detailing the findings of our recent report, Is Bigger Best in Renewable Energy? In this presentation, Farrell discusses how...
Originally posted at ilsr.org A new report released last week asserts that utility-scale solar is much more economical than small-scale solar. The clear implication...
Big dreams for renewable energy often goad people into imagining big wind projects with hundreds of turbines. But lots of smaller projects are...
If the cost of electricity were the only factor in energy discussions, we’d probably have a lot more coal and a lot less...
This post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. Americans seem unable to resist...
Installed costs for solar PV have dropped and economies of scale improved significantly in 2010, opening the door for much more cost-competitive distributed solar...
Solar thermal panels save more and save more where it counts. The sun's energy is diffuse. It is always first collected and then concentrated....
A serialized version of ILSR's new report, Democratizing the Electricity System, Part 2 of 5.