Federal tax credits for wind energy projects are due to start expiring at the end of this year, which means developers face the prospect of...
I spoke with a Minnesota-based wind developer in late 2010 and in a wide-ranging conversation about developing distributed wind projects, he remarked: “Economies of scale...
I had a conversation with a wind developer yesterday and was talking about the difference between putting together large projects (over 80 MW) compared to...
Building on the highly acclaimed 2009 report of the same name, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance has launched Energy Self-Reliant States, a new website to provide expert...
On Monday we posted a news story about the launch of Hawaii’s feed-in tariff program, and in a review last night we found an interesting...
Solar thermal has generally been two distinct worlds, rooftop solar hot water systems and utility-scale concentrating solar power plants. No more. A new rooftop solar...
The Hawaii Public Utility Commission moved ahead with the state’s feed-in tariff for projects under 500 kW, overruling objections from the state’s largest utility: The...
This story on Sunday suggests that utilities are pulling back from investments in renewable energy over concerns about the cost. Invenergy…had a contract to sell...
In reference to Japan’s World Trade Organization complaint against Ontario’s feed-in tariff (with its domestic content provisions): “Why should the Ontario taxpayer be paying high...
With its feed-in tariff, the Canadian province of Ontario is set to become the leading community renewable energy center in North America. In an Oct....
While there have been prominent news stories of smart grid cost overruns and customer dissatisfaction with programs run by investor-owned utilities, municipal utility smart grid...
An article in the New York Times last week suggested that a dearth of financing is holding back solar power in the United States. In...
An article in the New York Times last week suggested that a dearth of financing is holding back solar power in the United States. In...
But assuming we can agree that there’s good reason to subsidize solar power, as well as other forms of low-carbon electricity (including nuclear), you have...
A recent study in the journal Safety Science suggested that the most vulnerable parts of the grid were the smallest, like neighborhood substations. “That’s a...