At the beginning of June 2015, ILSR released its Public Rooftop Revolution report, which described how cities across the nation put the shine on municipal...
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...
There are a lot of stories on residential rooftop solar but few if any on what cities are doing to make themselves energy self-reliant by...
In nearly every state, an electric customer can offset their own energy consumption with on-site power generation, such as a solar panel. But for larger...
Kansas City, MO, has neither the abundant sunshine nor high cost of electricity that have driven solar installations in other cities. Despite this, the city...
There aren’t many solar success stories from the Southeast, making Raleigh, NC, stand out in a region with low-cost electricity and modest sunshine. With just...
In late May, the nation’s first clean energy partnership between a city and its utilities released its first two-year work plan. It holds true to...
Jason Caudle, city manager with the City of Lancaster, talked with John Farrell in April 2015 about his city’s solar boom. With more than 118...
There are a lot of stories on residential rooftop solar but few if any on what cities are doing to make themselves energy self-reliant by...
In his Sunday Wall Street Journal commentary on May 17, Brian Potts suggests that cost is the bottom line in the electric customer shift to...
There are many organizations in the energy space, and ILSR’s climate and energy advocacy overlaps substantially with the many other players who care about a...
Based on population, Ontario would be the 5th largest state if it were part of the U.S., but its installed solar capacity, 1,500 MW would...
If your electricity—generated from imported oil—is the most expensive in the country and your solar resource is terrific, you’d expect your electric company to be...
Hawaii’s Governor signed the Community-Based Renewable Energy Program in 2015, requiring energy utilities to file a proposed community-based energy tariff with the Public Utilities Commission....