Thanks to my friends at the Tennessee Solar Energy Center for their kind words, and for redistributing my recent article Energy Policy — Looking for the Broad Side of the Barn. They write: “TSEA has been following Craig Shields, blogger …
Category: Photovoltaics
Clean Energy — Looking for Accelerators
We frequently come across the concept of “accelerators,” i.e., forces that cause certain phenomena to speed their way into our lives. Recent examples are the adoption of the Internet and cell phones, both of which exceeded analysts’ expectations by an …
Castle Energy Offers Solar Power On The East Coast
It’s always a thrill when people I’ve known since my childhood grasp the opportunities that renewables represent. When my brother Geoff and I were teenagers, we had a fine friend, JR Castle (James Rutherford, if I’m not mistaken), who came …
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Start-up Pvilion Offers Unique Approach to Architectural Use of Photovoltaics
When I was in the Bay Area last week, I had a meeting with Pvilion, a start-up company with a unique approach and capability to the architectural use of solar PV, and I’m happy to report that they represent a …
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Solar Photovoltaics in Small Model House
Tomorrow my daughter and I will spend the afternoon on a project for her science class at school: building a model house whose electrical power is delivered with solar photovoltaics. I have a small solar panel that (I believe) will …
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The Value of the NegaWatt
I had a lovely phone chat last evening with a young lady, a high school senior who was working on a paper for school and wanted to ask a few questions about solar energy. In particular, she wanted to know …
The Health of the Solar Photovoltaics Industry
Here’s a good article on the solar photovoltaics industry by consulting giant McKinsey and Company. Not to give anything away, but they share my belief that the PV industry is in a momentary lull, not a swan song. Best of …
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True Environmentalism Means Making Tough Choices
I just got an email from the Sierra Club, wanting me to get on board for a piece of environmentalism that goes like this: This year, Assembly member Felipe Fuentes has a bill that would allow the Calico Solar Project, …
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Where We’re Going In Clean Energy
Here’s an article that gets to a couple of important points that are illustrative of where we are and where we’re going in clean energy. • Financing solar photovoltaics. There is no doubt that homeowners would be more likely to invest …
Using Photovoltaics to Rebuild Coral Reefs
Here’s an article on the creation of “biorock,” coral reefs that grow extra quickly when an electrical current, generated with photovoltaics on the ocean’s surface, is applied to steel girders on the seabed. Proponents argue that the replacing of the …
