Update 8/11/11: While maximizing solar in DC shifts $267 million in electricity payments from the utility to local solar panels, the cumulative electricity cost savings...
Rural areas aren’t just for energy export. Dylan Kruse (Sustainable Northwest) at 2011 Rural Assembly from Center for Rural Strategies on Vimeo. . ...
How many times must Missouri voters tell their government that they want clean, local energy and its economic benefits? They should try 21 times. That’s...
This is an archive of print and online news coverage of the CapX 2020 Transmission Lines proceedings in Minnesota. Wisconsin rules CapX 2020 app...
This is an archive of audio news coverage of the CapX 2020 Transmission Lines. The archive was originally hosted on an ILSR.org website but will now be...
This is an archive of video news coverage of the CapX 2020 Transmission Lines. The archive was originally hosted on an ILSR.org website but will...
The City University of New York (CUNY) released a solar map of New York City last week, allowing building owners in the city to determine...
The price of solar is dropping fast, opening new opportunities for community-scale renewable energy across the country. But despite the improving economics and tremendously sunnier...
In a new report, ILSR offers a vision for a 21st century electricity system as a network of independently-owned and widely dispersed renewable energy producers.…...
“Clean local energy provides the most efficient pathway to the smart energy future and the new energy economy. Democratizing the Electricity System does a brilliant...
CSP represents over 6,000 MW of the over 15,000 MW of future solar projects that SEPA is tracking, but there are differences in project development...
PV projects, which ranged in size from 1-kilowatt residential installations to 48-megawatt power plants, have much shorter planning horizons and project completion times, along with...
In drafts of ILSR’s forthcoming report on a distributed generation future (check back June 22!), I took some flak for my solar PV economies of...
A 3-day wind and solar forecast for Germany from the energy forecaster Enercast: The forecast allows grid operators to plan ahead for the wind and...
A column in the New York Times yesterday suggested that land use is the greatest environmental problem facing new renewable energy. While getting the facts...