On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) approved Georgia Power’s Advanced Solar Initiative (GPASI), a plan to add 210 MW to the utility’s solar portfolio over the next two years.  Each year, the company will acquire 60 MW of projects between 1-20 MW through a competitive...

Sunday, September 23rd: The Dark Side of Solar Energy The Los Angeles Times is talking about the dark side of all the huge, utility-scaled projects shooting up across California’s desert. Experts are predicting that consumers’ utility bills could go up by 50 percent as renewable energy produced...

Georgia Power filed a request with the Public Service Commission (PSC) today in order to expand its solar energy capacity between now and 2015. The utility is looking to triple the amount of solar from 61 MW annually to 210 MW over a three-year period. This is an abrupt shift from Georgia Power’s...

Over the weekend, I posted an article about the exploding solar market in Louisiana. This week I came across a piece about the opposite situation in nearby Alabama, a state that is getting left behind as the rest of the country moves into solar in a big way. Solar proponents in the state blame the lack...