Wednesday, May 22, 2013
2013 is nearly halfway through, so we'd like to share an update of Vote Solar initiatives and notable industry happenings from net metering to innovative financing.
For years, we've been making the case that in addition to the environmental benefits, solar also adds value to the grid. How much value? This week, we released a commissioned report to look at both the costs and benefits of net metering in California...
Some BIG solar news from New York! Today, in his 2013 State of the State, Governor Andrew Cuomo made some significant solar proposals. Proposals that will work to fundamentally transform the state's solar market while broadening access to solar, enabling...
Salt River Project, a utility that is not regulated by the Arizona Corporation Commission, has launched a public process to revise its voluntary 'Sustainable Portfolio Principles.'
Cost is one of the biggest barriers to bringing solar to scale. Tremendous strides have been made to date -- module prices have come down 50-70% in the past two years alone. Where are the next cost reductions going to come from?
Over the past 6 months, utilities across the U.S. have made unprecedented moves into the solar distributed generation market. What are the implications for the solar industry and what does this mean for solar policy?
The world owes the German solar program a huge Danke, no question. Germany's feed-in tariff has been the foundation upon which the solar industry's current success was built. But does that mean that we should try and replicate the feed-in model in the...
Renault-Nissan and Project Better Place recently announced a plan to make Israel oil-free by 2010. They are going to do this by building an electric car infrastructure -- vehicles with swap-out-able batteries, and a system of 500,000 re-charging facilities...
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