Chris Meehan is a freelance writer for SolarReviews. With more than a decade of professional writing experience, Chris focuses on sustainability, renewable energy and outdoor adventure articles. He has written for various publications, including 303 Magazine, Sun & Wind Energy and the Westword.
Chris Meehan is a freelance writer for SolarReviews. With more than a decade of professional writing experience, Chris focuses on sustainability, renewable energy and outdoor adventure articles. He has written for various publications, including 303 Magazine, Sun & Wind Energy and the Westword.
Net-metering or distributed solar has been a thorn in the side of utilities as solar became cheaper. As such, they’ve fought back against net-metering policies claiming it creates a cost-shift for customers that don’t have solar power. A new study commissioned by the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada found that distributed solar is having very little impact on electric prices in the state and may actually help reduce electric rate increases in the future.
Read More →This week Chicago really kicked off its Solar Chicago program, a partnership between the city, The Vote Solar Initiative and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The program uses group purchasing to reduce the cost of going solar by more than 25 percent of the average cost, according to Vote Solar, which is coordinating the effort through its Go Solar campaign.
Read More →Apple, which is already powering its data centers with 100 percent renewable energy, is apparently not done with green energy yet. Yesterday (July 7) the City of Claremont in North Carolina agreed to annex land, allowing the company to build a new, 17.5 megawatt PV farm there.
Read More →Perhaps it got overshadowed by the holiday weekend, but on July 3 the Department of Energy introduced a new, potentially $ billion round of loan guarantees to support the development of clean energy and energy efficiency projects across the U.S. A wide swath of market-ready technologies, from solar to wind to advanced vehicle manufacturing and cleaner coal usage are eligible for support under the solicitation.
Read More →Believe it or not we don’t totally understand how solar cells work, particularly organic thin-film photovoltaics. But scientists Canada, London and Cyprus have recently used lasers to shed some light into the process, which could help make more efficient solar panels tomorrow.
Read More →Earlier this week the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced that it received a $10.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences to continue its work at the Energy Frontier Research Center for Solar Fuels (EFRC). The center is developing solar fuels, particularly developing a dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cell (DSPEC).
Read More →You might think that car racing, with it’s gas-guzzling, fume spewing super cars buzzing around tracks for hundreds of miles at hundreds of miles an hour wouldn’t be a beacon of environmentalism, but it kind of is. After all as early as 2011 NASCAR cars started using an ethanol biofuel, Sunoco Green E15, as the race fuel, and now one of its most iconic tracks, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, has just completed the largest photovoltaic array at any sports venue in the world, a 9 megawatt PV array.
Read More →This is what utilities are really afraid of. SunPower and KB Homes partnered on a pilot program to incorporate battery backups to solar-powered homes. Solar-powered homes with integrated battery storage at competitive prices—meaning the homes could more realistically sever themselves from the grid.
Read More →On Saturday (June 28) Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed into law H.B. 2427, which requires the Illinois Power Agency (IPA) to use up to $30 million to purchase solar power to meet the state’s energy needs. Under the new law, a special existing fund must be used to purchase solar power and emphasizes the development of distributed solar generation, like on homes and businesses.
Read More →Yesterday (June 26) Demeter Power Group announced that it signed a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative to launch its Feed-Out solar funding program for small-scale solar installations. The Commitment to Action pledges were signed by 100 organizations at the closing day of the show. The commitments are anticipated to create or fill 40,000 jobs as well as investing $215 million of new capital in small- and medium-sized enterprises.
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