The use of the tax code has long made the federal wind power incentives something of a bane for community wind power. Finding strategies to...
Update 8/23/11: While solar can be built right under high voltage transmission lines, it can’t necessarily interconnect right at the tower. Thus, this piece should...
Thanks to innovative energy policy, residents of Ontario can invest in local solar power projects by buying SolarShare bonds. The $1,000 bond provides a 5%...
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...
I just got a copy of a utility bill for a Minnesota business that has a 40 kilowatt (kW) solar PV array. I’d hoped to...
A great story of a city looking to – literally – take ownership of its energy future: The Colorado Renewable Energy Standard, as amended last...
The majority of studies indicate that the range of increased operations-period [economic] impact [of community wind] is on the order of 1.5 to 3.4 times…and...
Over 30 U.S. states mandate renewable energy and are willing to pay higher prices for clean electricity. But most states lack a jobs and economic...
Joining Ontario and several U.S. states, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has proposed a new twist on a common clean energy program. The policy...
Update: It’s important to note that this refers to the net installed cost. In other words, the installed cost dropped because residential solar customers were...
Yesterday Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm signed the state’s Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) law, making Michigan the 24th state to enable cities and counties to...
If you live in the Twin Cities, your internet connection is slower and more expensive than small town Monticello due to a reliance on big...
Small-scale renewables will get a boost in a new feed-in tariff proposal by Reps. Jay Inslee of Washington and Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts. The authors...
The New Rules Project features several programs and initiatives, including: The Hometown Advantage, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative, Biofuels and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, and Climate...
With has the potential to become one of the nation’s fastest spreading local renewable energy programs, the Berkeley city council last night voted unanimously to...