Earlier this week, the Public Utilities Commission of Hawaii approved the proposal of the islands’ largest utility to end net metering for solar customers. It’s...
In 2016, ILSR released a new report on solar and wind economies of scale, updating this data. While utilities continue to imply that large-scale solar...
For states looking to reduce their reliance on dirty, imported energy, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory brings good news on the wind. In a May 2015...
For some five years now, many have been talking about gigabit Internet access speeds. After arguing for years that no one needed higher capacity connections,...
A new report released this week asserts that utility-scale solar is much more economical than small-scale solar. The clear implication is that we should let...
Thanks in large part to the Bank of North Dakota, community banks and credit unions are much more robust in North Dakota than in other...
How much solar is installed on municipal buildings? How much could be installed? As we discovered in writing ILSR’s Public Rooftop Revolution report—the latest in the...
How much solar is installed on municipal buildings? How much could be installed? As we discovered in writing ILSR’s Public Rooftop Revolution report—the latest in the...
As this graph shows, giant banks consistently make poorer lending decisions and write-off more bad loans than community banks do, and the financial crisis heightened...
This 90-second video shows how giant banks have devoured the banking sector over the past 20 years.… Read More
There are a lot of utility-sponsored legislative and regulatory attacks on solar energy lately, and we put together this infographic to help the Missouri Solar...
Walmart continues to expand, and rapidly. The company is now embarking on its third historic wave of store construction, with plans to build 440 to...
The growth of solar has continued at a furious pace, with a new record of 6.2 gigawatts installed in the United States in 2014. But...
The rise of solar power allows a further democratizing of the electricity system, and these charts illustrate how 2014 was a banner year for solar,...
In the first half of 2014, distributed local solar power constituted over 25% of new power plant capacity. This impressive growth continues several years where...