We hear more and more about the growing home solar trend, because solar panel costs have dropped dramatically in recent years. We typically don’t get as much information about businesses that are using solar power too. Recently the Australian Clean Energy Council published some information about the huge number of local businesses employing solar power. […]
Talking about solar carports might elicit skepticism from some and yawns from others, but they make sense for a number of reasons. To start with, parking in shade can reduce evaporative emissions, meaning that a hot gas tank may result in more evaporation of fuel. The amount that evaporates is not that much, but over a long period […]
Residential leasing companies SolarCity and SunRun filed a lawsuit on June 30th against the Arizona Department of Revenue. The legal dispute is filed in opposition to property taxes levied onto leased PV systems in Arizona. Affirmations came independently from each company that the complaint was filed and delivered a replica of the official documents. This taxes […]
I recently participated in one of the Twitter #SolarChat events that @EcoOutfitters organizes. It was a real blast — fun and informative. The general focus was community solar gardens, but that was of course linked to many other solar issues. Numerous useful resources about community solar gardens and solar financing were shared. Below are some […]
Reposted from Cost of Solar. (But not the entire article. Click that link to read everything below plus 3 more paragraphs at the end.). What’s the cost of solar today? Well, it depends a great deal on where exactly you are located, but no matter where you’re located, I’d bet that most of you have a […]
Getting sick of solar infographics yet? Nope? Good! Here’s one more: Here’s some useful commentary from the Cost of Solar article where this was recently shared: So, yes, we love solar power. But that leaves most of us with an important question: if we haven’t yet gone solar, why haven’t we? One very likely answer […]
Here’s another fun infographic Cost of Solar recently shared. This one’s on 5 big solar myths, and quick debunkings of them. For more commentary, check out the full Cost of Solar article: Disadvantages Of Solar Energy Debunked.
CostofSolar.com recently shared this fun infographic featuring 9 surprising things about people who go solar. Do the facts below surprise you? (For more commentary, check out the full CostofSolar.com post.)
Here are parts 1 and 2 of a presentation I gave to a class of renewable energy graduate students yesterday (reposted from CleanTechnica): Renewable Energy Big Pic: Part 1 (Including 34 Charts & Graphs) As I mentioned in my article covering the latest US Solar Market Insight report (which I just published a few hours ago), I was “out […]
I’m not an advertiser, but I have worked in related fields for a long time. And I got a bachelor’s degree in sociology because of my interest in how people interact with… everything. That academic background is still a core component of how I think about things, including how I think about the successes and […]