Community Solar Grows Up
Community solar is capturing attention across the US as a way to get clean energy to everyone, including people who rent and whose roofs are too shaded for solar. A paper, “Community Shared Solar:...
View ArticleLakewood Colorado Becomes Solar Friendly
A quickly growing number of cities along Colorado’s Front Range are attaining the status of “Solar Friendly Community.” On March 22, Lakewood became the latest, achieving a silver level certification...
View ArticleNet Metering: Whats Not to Like?
There’s been a lot of talk lately about net metering. What’s so special about net metering, and why all the fuss? Net metering is a simple concept that’s policy in 43 states. It’s like rollover minutes...
View ArticleFUTUREWATCH: Self Assembling PV Cells
Newly published research from Rice University and Penn State show that some polymer-based organic PV devices can self-assemble. The research could make producing organic PV far easier and cost...
View ArticleResidential Solar Permitting Streamlined in Palo Alto
Palo Alto has taken another step towards making it easier than ever for residents of the California city to go solar. In addition to launching a feed-in tariff last year to support expansion of rooftop...
View ArticleDesigning for Impact
This was my third year attending the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting (CGI). It seems to get better every year. Between the world leaders, superstar nonprofit organizations, social...
View ArticleSolar: The Solution To The US Housing Crisis?
There is an article on Bloomberg about Sumitomo’s warning that a solar bubble is forming in Japan: As Goldman Sachs and billionaire Masayoshi Son lead a swarm of investors exploiting Japan’s solar...
View ArticleRE-volv: Crowdfunding Community Solar Installations
Andreas Karelas founded RE-volv in 2011. He started the organization, he says, “out of a sense of frustration felt by many of us working for clean energy. The change isn’t happening fast enough and if...
View ArticleDesert Counties DO Benefit from Utility Projects
As other reporters and bloggers have pointed out, Sunday’s Los Angeles Times ran a one-sided and misinformed article questioning the economic benefits of utility-scale solar projects on desert...
View ArticleCalling All Nerds: Top 5 Eco Laptop Cases
If you are a nature lover and wish to work toward environment protection in all modern ways, here is something you would love for your most important gadget, your laptop. Check out a range of green...
View ArticleNanowire vs. Organic Solar Cell Investment
This week, two solar cell “startups” that couldn’t be further away in terms of their efficiencies or materials won funding from VCs The post Nanowire vs. Organic Solar Cell Investment appeared first on...
View ArticleSustainable Business Practices Yielding Profits
As climate change continues to be a hot topic for the environmental and political world, other sectors are beginning to take notice. The post Sustainable Business Practices Yielding Profits appeared...
View ArticlePerovskite Structures = Cheaper Solar?
Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are using organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials to create cheaper and more efficient solar cells. According The post Perovskite...
View ArticleSolar Had An INSANE October
How was the month of October for you? Can you still remember it after all that turkey? After reading these statistics about the The post Solar Had An INSANE October appeared first on Solar Feeds.
View ArticleNonprofits: A New Frontier for Solar
The nonprofit sector would seem to represent a natural fit for the solar revolution. Nonprofits exist primarily to do good. A community center, a food bank, a nationwide health-related charity: all...
View ArticleIn Focus: The Future of PV Solar
Good yields, government funding and secure payments are all proving that investments in photovoltaic panels are cost-worthy once again. Thanks to EU incentive schemes and continuous investment in...
View ArticlePerovskite Solar Cell Production Process Improved
UCLA engineers have invented a new process for manufacturing highly efficient photovoltaic materials that shows promise for low-cost industrial perovskite solar cell production. The new process uses...
View ArticleEnergy Storage and Community Solar Farms
While a number of local residents, businesses and institutions have installed solar panels on their roofs or elsewhere to reduce electrical costs and CO2 emissions, many others do not have the correct...
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Illinois: The Greenest State
Illinois’ cornfields aren’t the only thing that’s green in the state, nearly 100 communities in the the state are 100 percent powered by renewable electricity. That’s according to a new report,...
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Multilayered Waveguide Array: Solar’s Big Opportunity?
A new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo explores the use of a nanoscale microchip component called a “multilayered waveguide taper array” that improves the chip’s ability to trap and...
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