Hawaii Wants To Be The First State To Run Completely On Renewable Energy With strong trade winds, volcanic heat and abundant solar and hydropower, the Hawaiian islands have a plethora of natural resources. Yet the state is America’s largest consumer of fossil fuels per capita, according to Hawaii’s Environmental Council for the Office of Environmental … Continue reading Hawaii Wants To Be The First State To Run Completely On Renewable Energy→
ACE, JCP&L and RECO Seeking Proposals for Solar Renewable Energy Projects MORRISTOWN, N.J., April 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — As part of the ongoing efforts to support solar energy in New Jersey, Atlantic City Electric (ACE), Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) and Rockland Electric Company (RECO) are seeking proposals for projects that will produce Solar … Continue reading #ACE, #JCP&L and #RECO Seeking Proposals for Solar Renewable Energy Projects→
Follow the big financiers: Solar and batteries are coming In 2014, a chorus of analyses from major financial institutions—including Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Fitch Ratings, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and UBS—found that solar-plus-battery systems pose a real and present threat to traditional utility business models. Many of them directly cited RMI’s report The Economics … Continue reading Follow the big financiers: Solar and #batteries are coming→
Did California Just Break Six Gigawatts of Grid Solar? Don’t look now, but it looks as though California might have broken another solar record, with 6,000 megawatts of solar power flowing into the state’s grid for about four hours Wednesday. [Update: we didn’t quite make 6,000 megawatts. See the end of this story for details.] … Continue reading Did California Just Break Six Gigawatts of Grid Solar?→
Wall Street’s grid agreement: solar and batteries are coming In 2014, a chorus of analyses from major financial institutions – including Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Fitch Ratings, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and UBS – found that solar-plus-battery systems pose a real and present threat to traditional utility business models. Many of them directly cited … Continue reading Wall Street’s grid agreement: solar and batteries are coming→
Listen Up: Can We Get To 100 Percent Renewables? We’ve made great progress with renewable energy — but from an almost zero base we still have a long way to go. Fortunately, the path is clear. California is already over 12 percent with a combination of hydroelectric, wind and solar (unfortunately not much hydro this … Continue reading Listen Up: Can We Get To 100 Percent Renewables?→
Gridlocked by the power grid: Why Hawaii’s solar energy industry is at a crossroads They’re everywhere on Oahu: on the roofs of businesses, libraries, and one house after another. The amount of rooftop solar now accounts for 12 percent of the electric utility’s users. That’s more than 20 times the national average. It’s by far … Continue reading Gridlocked by the power grid: Why Hawaii’s solar energy industry is at a crossroads→
SunEdison to Construct Three New Solar Power Plants in Utah Totaling 262 MW BELMONT, Calif., April 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ –SunEdison, Inc. (NYSE: SUNE), the world’s largest renewable energy developer, today announced that it has signed agreements to construct and install three new utility-scale solar power plants in southern Utah with a total capacity of 262 … Continue reading #SunEdison to Construct Three New Solar Power Plants in Utah Totaling 262 MW→
How to Avoid the Death Spiral uring my most recent chat with Utility Forecaster, Canadian Edge and Australian Edge subscribers, a participant questioned me about the impact the rapid adoption of solar power along with advances in storage technology would have on traditional utilities. I replied that battery systems coupled with rooftop installation of solar … Continue reading How to Avoid the Death Spiral→
Nuclear France’s Sun Power Record Leaves Utilities in the Shade Sunshine brought more than spring flowers to France this week. Panels across the country pushed solar output to new highs of more than 4,000 megawatts, grid data show. That surge in a nation more dependent than any other on nuclear power illustrates the fundamental change … Continue reading Nuclear France’s Sun Power Record Leaves #Utilities in the Shade→
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