Originally published on Lenz Blog. The EU Commission has adopted a useless and harmful Communication titled “Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy 2014-2020“. Here are a couple of remarks. 1. How To Work Around the Useless and Harmful EU Commission Guidelines These guidelines are on “State aid”. … [continued]
Only 613 MW of solar PV capacity was installed last year in France, according to data recently published by the French General Commission on Sustainable Development. That’s a significant drop from 2012, when 1.15 GW of capacity was installed — a 45% drop to be exact. Given the reality, though, … [continued]
Originally published on The Lenz Blog This interesting and beautiful graph was recently published by the German Renewable Energy Agency (Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien). It shows the increases of energy costs per month for the average German household from 2000 on. The tiny, small, barely visible violet part at the top is … [continued]
The government of India’s national capital region, Delhi, is planning to introduce a solar power feed-in tariff program for consumers. The government had launched such a plan a few years back as well but it did not find any takers. With a promise of subsidy, sharp fall in solar panel … [continued]
Originally published on the Lenz Blog by Karl-Friedrich Lenz The election in Germany is close, and unfortunately only one out of seven polls sees the enemies of renewable energy FDP under 5 percent. That’s progress, of course. They had 14.6 percent in the last election. But under German election law, any party … [continued]
This article originally published at the Lenz Blog by Karl-Friedrich Lenz A short follow-up to yesterday’s post discussing the latest round of anti-renewable propaganda from SPIEGEL magazine. That whole article whines about the cost of electricity in Germany, calling it a “luxury good”. So I thought it might be fun to compare … [continued]
The local government of India’s capital New Delhi has been urged to increase the solar power generation capacity as significant solar resource potential exists and the country’s renewable energy policy requires the utilities to procure a set minimum percentage of electricity from solar power projects. Under the Renewable Purchase Obligation, or RPO regulations in India, the power distribution companies … [continued]
A solar energy revolution is dawning in America, led by the “Dazzling Dozen” – twelve states whose progressive policies dominate the solar industry with 85% of all US solar capacity but just 28% of the total population.
Environment America’s “Lighting the Way” report outlines their successful policies and illuminate the path forward to a nationwide clean energy economy.
Feed-in tariffs are not only a hot topic of conversation for renewable energy discussion, but a point of great contention as well. However, according to a report published by the UK Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ogfem) you can’t disagree with their results. According to the 12th issue of the … [continued]
Officially launched in January after years of development, a new CLEAN (feed-in tariff) program from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (the city’s municipal electric utility) promises 100 MW of new local renewable energy by 2016. In absolute size, the program will be among the largest CLEAN programs in … [continued]
