The US solar market and industry is growing fast, diversifying, and broadening out geographically, a clear sign solar energy is coming into the US energy mainstream, according to SEIA-GTM Research’s 2012 year in review.
Reposted from Solar Love: In an on-air Google Hangout today, Recurrent Energy CEO and Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) Chairman Arno Harris noted that more solar power capacity is projected to be installed in 2013 than from any electricity source other than natural gas. And, by 2016, solar energy may actually … [continued]
Last year was a record-breaking year for U.S. solar energy, as the PV industry grew by 76% in 2012 compared to 2011. The U.S. Solar Market Insight Report: Year In Review, co-authored by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association, said that 2012 PV solar installations were 3.31 GW, more … [continued]
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and GTM Research are hosting an on-air Google Hangout at 11:00am EST today (less than three hours away as I’m typing this). You can join in here. This happens to remind me that CleanTechnica got SEIA on SEIA’s first ever Google Hangout back in … [continued]
Reposted from Arctic Sea Ice Forum (with minor edits): At this point in time, pump-up hydro is our cheapest way to store electricity. Pump water up with spare electricity, let it flow back through turbines when we need electricity. We’ve got over 20 GW of pump-up hydro in the US that … [continued]
The enormous growth in local renewable energy is decentralizing the electricity system, often supplanting energy from centralized power plants. But not all renewable energy is built locally, even in a country like Germany with massive local ownership of its renewable energy systems. The Germans are undergoing significant upgrades to their … [continued]
Chinese leaders have proposed that the anti-dumping dispute over supply of solar photovoltaic (PV) modules to Europe be resolved through negotiations to avoid losses on both sides. The European Union (EU) would require Chinese modules to be registered at customs from April this year. Chinese module manufacturers have been facing … [continued]
For decades, space heating and cooling (space conditioning) accounted for more than half of all residential energy consumption. Estimates from the most recent Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), collected in 2010 and 2011 and released in 2011 and 2012, show that 48% of energy consumption in U.S. homes in 2009 was … [continued]
Nexus Energy Homes Inc will be the first home builder to offer DOW POWERHOUSE™ solar shingles on the East Coast of the United States. These DOW solar shingles are not just a more attractive way to build solar panels, but they are also literally shingles — they are classified as official … [continued]
Renewable energy journalist Osha Gray Davidson recently released a book called Clean Break, detailing the German Energiewende (translation: energy change or energy transition). It’s a story of how the German systematically shifted to clean energy, finding as they proceeded that the possibilities were greater, the costs lower, and the benefits … [continued]
