Solar Power

Interior Department

DOE has been considered the catalyst of renewables in America, but two major announcements by the Interior Department may have just served notice it could be the real driver of clean energy growth during President Obama’s second term.[read more]

electrical grid/shutterstock

Customers foot the bill for grid outages anyway, both theirs and their utility’s. Why not invest some of that money on some measure of self-sufficiency?[read more]

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Neither the failure of Better Place, which might yet find a bargain-hunting savior, nor the retreat of DESERTEC looks like a mortal blow to the long energy transition now underway.[read more]

Japanese solar plant

Not only can solar replace nuclear power in Japan, but it is also set to become the world’s largest solar revenue market in 2013, thanks at least in part to a surge in installations in Q1.[read more]

net metering

It’s not surprising that utilities aren’t fans of net metering. They can’t say that the reason they’re against it is because it eats into their profits. Instead, they use the argument that all customers are subsidizing those who use net metering.[read more]

US Navy

The Navy got its first ever solar powered electric vehicle charging station last week, in yet another demonstration of a slow but steady transition out of petroleum dependency by the US military.[read more]

EU energy policy

An extensive update on the latest EU policy developments and what to expect for the near future in the field of energy policy, including the Internal Energy Market, Research, Development & Innovation, and Chinese solar panels.[read more]

Mexican solar energy

Ford has signed an agreement to consume 15 percent of the electricity produced by Sonora80M Group’s 20 MW solar park, which is anticipated to get up to 80 MW after all four phases are complete.[read more]

Brazil's solar energy growth

Brazil, which has been a wind energy leader for a long time, has started to get going in the solar energy arena. In one recent week, it saw a tremendous surge of applications for solar power projects that totaled 392.4 MW.[read more]

German renewables/shutterstock

Making households pay a disproportionate amount of the bill for renewable energy is quite obviously unfair and will lead to an inevitable political backlash against subsidizing renewables.[read more]

cause for celebration?

A new 30 MW solar photovoltaic power plant is currently being constructed in Mexico — in La Paz, Baja California Sur. Once completed, the plant will be Latin America’s largest photovoltaic solar energy plant.[read more]

the riches of solar?

 

Many of the India’s natural resources are beginning to be utilized to address energy poverty, and the country is addressing concerns through projects designed to improve electric infrastructure in a comprehensive, but prompt way.[read more]

cleantech

We're just five months into 2013, and we've already seen a number of new records in cleantech deployment. Here are five recent stories worth highlighting.[read more]

the future of solar energy?

Researchers from Rice University and Penn State have developed a relatively efficient organic solar cell based on a compound polymer that assembles itself into tidy bands.[read more]

EU-China solar trade war?

The tariffs will average 47.6 percent and will affect 100-plus Chinese manufacturers found by an EC investigation to have been involved in dumping solar products at market-breaking low prices in the European Union.[read more]