The recently formed solar advocacy organization Solar Freedom Now (SFN) is on a mission to reduce the cost of rooftop solar. This week it released a new white paper, ‘A Roadmap for Reducing Rooftop Solar Costs by 50%’. The white paper is aimed at how the organization plans to reduce the soft costs...
After starting 2013 with a bang Mosaic looks to keep it going with another crowdfunded project. This time it’s 6 megawatts of photovoltaic (PV) farms being built by Pristine Sun, LLC, in California. The projects are being built out as part of Pristine Sun’s 250 megawatt portfolio of mid-to-late-stage...
Georgia Power launched its Advanced Solar Initiative this week.
As the utility opened its doors to applications for what will probably result in a total of about 210 megawatts of utility-scale and distributed generation solar projects over the next two years, installers and developers were no doubt hammering...
A new report out from Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), which supports solar, wind and other clean energy sources, surveyed 30 energy CEOs and other senior energy executives about California’s current and future efforts to build out its advanced energy infrastructure. While they praised the state’s...
Hawaii Electric, anxious to get some renewable energy projects under construction, is cutting through the red tape to see what it can make happen now.
The utility has been developing a comprehensive Request For Proposals that would call for significant solar and other renewable energy generation technologies...
Monday morning the news was aflutter with President Obama announcing new appointees to head the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, the two offices most tied to solar and renewable energy. For the Energy Department he nominated former Energy Department undersecretary Ernest Moniz,...
The past week offered its usual colorful array of solar news, with rebates drying up in the U.S.‘s biggest solar market being hailed as a good thing, to a carmaker that wants to see more of its customers go solar, to a farmers’ market that’s going solar in a rural state to show the impact solar...
Solar Impulse, the manned, solar-powered plane has made its first journey across the Atlantic from Europe—in a plane. The plane landed in San Francisco Feb. 21, ferried the disassembled Solar Impulse (HB-SIA) across the Atlantic in a Boeing 747 (which actually has a smaller wing span than the photovoltaic-powered...
The Minnesota state legislature is debating The Solar Energy Jobs Act of 2013, which would mandate 10 percent of the state’s energy Solar energy advocates on Tuesday proposed a wide-ranging piece of legislation to the House Energy Policy Committee that would mandate the state generates 10 percent of...
Promise Energy is a newcomer to southern California’s solar hot water market, but the company has wasted no time building a strong business.
Promise, which is just a year old, has focused on solar hot water installations for multi-family affordable housing complexes in Los Angeles and San Diego, said...
