For many improvements (e.g. kitchen, bath), you can capture a significant fraction of the value back when you sell your home. For solar PV, you...
We think over the next three to five years the solar business will migrate heavily from a utility-sized solar business to a more of a...
When is it time to break up with your utility? Perhaps it’s when they come to ratepayers for $30 million in cost overruns on a...
By a vote of 13 to 8, the Nevada Senate earlier this week approved a feed-in tariff to boost renewable energy develoment in the state. ...
Last week I shared a graphic illustrating the dramatic fall in distributed solar PV prices in Germany, down to $4.11 per Watt installed, for rooftop...
Even as distributed generation shows economical and political advantages over centralized renewable energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is running a high voltage gravy...
Maine’s Net Energy Billing system (2011) allows shared ownership of renewable facilities and virtual net metering. Participants must own a portion of the generation facility....
Most renewable energy advocates are familiar with feed-in tariffs, also known as CLEAN Contracts. They offer standard, long-term contracts for renewable electricity with prices sufficient...
The upfront cost has always been the biggest barrier to solar PV adoption, and one Oregon town has found an innovative way to help its...
A great story of a city looking to – literally – take ownership of its energy future: The Colorado Renewable Energy Standard, as amended last...
Consumers Energy in Michigan, with a peak demand of around 4,000 megawatts (MW) just put the brakes on its pilot 2 MW solar PV program. ...
While seeming counterintuitive, a focus on smaller-scale distributed generation enables more and faster development of cost-effective renewable energy. Last week I wrote about the illusion...
“Most of the action has still been in small, distributed stuff,” [Ryne Raffaelle, director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Center for Photovoltaics.] said....
From the ability to reduce peak demand on the transmission and distribution system, hedge against fuel price increases, or enhance grid and environmental security, solar...