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A new report from SunRun recently revealed that permitting can significantly increase the cost of residential solar PV projects, adding as much as 20 percent...
An overflow crowd of hundreds turned out yesterday at a New York City Council hearing on the impact Wal-Mart would have if allowed to expand...
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In the 1930s we expanded the concept of a public good and a public asset to the idea of social insurance, enacting programs like unemployment...
Updated 3 PM: Preliminary numbers had suggested that Southern California Edison’s distributed rooftop solar PV purchase would be among the most cost-effective solar projects in...
Can a state with a renewable energy mandate require green jobs to stay at home? Litigation has made states into tepid defenders of their job...
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...
Who should decide the future of broadband access in towns across North Carolina? Citizens and businesses in towns across the state, or a handful of...
Last week we noted how distributed (solar PV) generation scales, highlighting the 3,000 megawatts of solar PV that Germany installed in 2009, over 80% on...
Overruling a utility challenge, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) affirmed today that states have the right to set prices for mandated renewable energy purchases...
Community wind projects deliver larger economic returns and encounter less local resistance, but a new report released last week shows that developing community wind still...
Late last year, the Federal Housing Administration announced a new PowerSaver loan program to provide financing for home energy efficiency improvements. The program comes on...
I started to write a comment on President Obama’s State of the Union Address, and the Republican Party’s responses. But I quickly realized the difficulties...
For the fourth year in a row, a national survey of independent businesses has found that those in communities with an active "buy local" campaign...