Tag: solar power

June 24, 2019

Wind and solar power are now the cheapest way to add new power in two thirds of countries around the world and they will make up almost half of the electricity system by 2050, a new report claims. BloombergNEF’s New […]

May 16, 2019

Wind’s fight with fossil fuel is transitioning to crafting a strategy to cope with solar. As the Energy Transition unfolds in the United States, it introduces new power market dynamics that fundamentally favor solar power over wind. Solar power represents […]

January 29, 2019

Facebook Inc. is boosting its clean-energy efforts with a deal to help run a Virginia data center where it leases space with solar power. Digital Realty Trust Inc., which operates the facility, agreed to buy about 80 megawatts of solar […]

November 12, 2018

Two-thirds of voters in Arizona fell prey to one of the most vicious disinformation campaigns in the annals of US politics last Tuesday. Bombarded by more than $25 million worth of lies bought and paid for by local utility company […]

September 17, 2018

Zachary and I were having a conversation in the CleanTechnica executive dining room the other day about renewable energy. While noshing on crostini and capers, the subject of George Lakoff came up, a writer and Democratic strategist known for such […]

July 6, 2018

This innovation could be a step toward wider adoption of solar power in places like British Columbia and parts of northern Europe where overcast skies are common. BIOGENIC This innovation could be a step toward wider adoption of solar power […]

June 25, 2018

The Internal Revenue Service is extending incentives for solar power and other clean energy sources by as long as four years. Developers can claim a 30 percent tax credit for solar projects as long as they prove they’ve started construction […]

April 5, 2018

Solar panels are everywhere: perched on thatched roofs in rural Kenya, helping Indian farmers pump groundwater for their fields, and powering United States military bases. Solar power accounted for more than a third of all electricity generated from energy sources […]

March 30, 2018

What was supposed to be the highlight of my recent trip to Myanmar’s Irrawaddy River wasn’t happening. But even though my lower back ached from an hour of hunching forward in a narrow canoe, my legs awkwardly jammed into the […]

March 15, 2018

Should government be involved in commercial projects or should the private sector do all the heavy lifting itself? Maybe the answer is that public/private partnerships are society’s best way forward. Private entities get to make a profit while government makes […]

March 15, 2018

If you live in South Carolina, congratulations. Your state vaulted nine spots and cracked into the top 20 markets for solar power capacity in 2017. The Solar Energy Industries Association on Thursday released its annual review of U.S. solar installations […]

November 7, 2017

Like a cloud casting a shadow over a solar farm, import tariffs may soon darken the skies for the renewables sector. In weighing remedial alternatives in the Suniva trade case, the Trump Administration may err on the side of protecting […]

October 30, 2017

Historically, PV monitoring vendors developed fully-integrated solutions, including both on-site hardware to acquire the data and remote software to collect, process, and present it. While this one-stop-shop approach to data acquisition and presentation remains dominant, it is increasingly getting challenged […]

October 23, 2017

Recent reports that solar capacity will soon exceed nuclear capacity reveal an important fact. They also hide a crucial distinction needed to understand the context of energy production, and use and consequences of choices among supply options for the future, […]

September 14, 2017

Solar power is becoming competitive with natural gas — and is already cheaper than new fossil fuel capacity in many countries. Add storage to the mix, and the costs come down even more. That’s what the Clean Coalition has found […]

March 20, 2017

A multi-tenant commercial facility in Brooklyn is hosting a landmark project – New York City’s first community solar development. The project is the first of several under development by UGE – a global provider of solar solutions to the commercial […]

February 7, 2017

China’s installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity more than doubled last year, turning the country into the world’s biggest producer of solar energy by capacity, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Saturday. Installed PV capacity rose to 77.42 gigawatts at the […]

January 30, 2017

The Hawaiian Energy Companies (HECO) has commissioned the Island’s largest solar park, the 27.6MW Waianae Solar project. The project broke ground in March 2016 with the array coming online mid-this month. It constitutes the largest in operation in Hawaii to […]

January 17, 2017

Solar employment accounts for the largest share of workers in the electric power generation sector, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In a new report “U.S. Energy and Employment Report,” the DOE explains that the traditional energy and […]

January 10, 2017

Innovative Solar Systems, an Asheville, NC based Solar Farm Development company is once again dominating the solar power energy market by having the largest pipeline of projects in development in the Texas market. ISS company representatives report that ISS has […]