Hate to say I told you so, but it looks like solar roads (i.e., roads paved with solar PV), are not going to get off the ground (pun intended). Of course, the experiment described in this article in Northwestern France, …
Category: Photovoltaics
From Guest Blogger Akaahan Terungwa: Five Important Questions (And Answers) You Should Tackle Before Transitioning To Solar
Like it or not, the renewable energy revolution is right here upon us and solar is clearly leading the game. For cynics (and doubting Thomases), the singular fact that Tesla made more money in the last quarter than the entire …
From Guest Blogger Lillian Connors: Making Optimal Use of Solar Power in Business Premises
With a rapid rise in business costs and the unstable price of oil on the global market, numerous businesses are looking for alternative energy sources. Choosing sustainable power is also triggered by people’s growing concern for the environment, and the …
Insights on Solar PV and Electric Transportation from 2GreenEnergy Associate Fritz Maffry
Here’s another update from my Kansas City-based friend Fritz Maffry. The approach to date in KC neglected all recognition that solar and battery prices are headed down considerably, while utility rates have been on an increasing cost ascension for the …
From Guest Blogger Arthur Smith: Most Common Solar Energy Myths Debunked
Solar energy is a huge power resource all over the world, because as of last year solar power generates more than 1% of the electricity demand globally. That is no easy feat to achieve, because power generation market still is ruled …
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Off-Grid Living in Africa
It’s always great to be able to report unequivocally good news, and this is such a story. As the cost of solar PV continues to plummet, many Africans are finding that this represents a far better–and less expensive–solution than kerosene.
Building-Integrated PV: It’s Happening Now
The subject of building-integrated solar PV (BIPV) is not new, and some version will almost definitely become popular soon, especially in places like California that have net-zero energy consumption requirements for new construction.
Prediction: The Migration To Renewable Energy Will Be Anything But Smooth
Doesn’t everyone love the promise of abundant, inexpensive, and totally clean energy? Actually, no. Those whose profit streams come from dirty, 20th Century energy most certainly don’t. These people are working diligently to delay the onset of renewables as long …
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Electric Utilities vs. Rooftop Solar
Here’s an article that suggests our power utilities don’t really want to see more rooftop solar. While that’s not really news to anyone, it certainly does raise a good question: what are the changes we need to make in our …
Tagged with: backup power, charge electric vehicles, Charge net-metering customers a lease fee for the service the grid provides, cost of building expensive peaker plants, Electric Utilities vs. Rooftop Solar, environmental damage, externalities, load shifts to daylight hours, low capacity factors, our relationship with our utilities, power utilities don't really want rooftop solar, pushback against net metering, rethinking the mandate we give the utilities, tax EV drivers, tax fossil fuel consumption, vehicle-to-grid programs, voltage and wave-form correction
Bottlenecks in the Solar Industry
Frequent commenter John Roche writes: Regarding bottlenecks associated with the adoption of solar, many groups have said that infrastructure and power lines are issues, namely getting new power lines in and expanding old ones–and that it could take years. Bottlenecks …
Tagged with: Bottlenecks in the Solar Industry, capacity to install large solar farms on otherwise low-value land, cost per Watt of solar will continue to fall, encourage faster adoption of solar, infrastructure, limited capacity to transmit energy of large distances, shift load to the day, store energy cost-effectively
