Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Today the nation’s largest solar power show, Solar Power International, opened with a rousing keynote session. Standing on the same stage that hosted the prime time Emmy Awards just a month or so ago, Rhone Resch, President of the Solar Energy Industries...
I have written before about my interest in green building, which of course includes energy efficiency and renewable energy. That’s why when news about new sustainable communities being built in the U.S. floats across my desk I always check it out. A...
Ever wonder what happens to all the manufacturing scrap that is created during PV manufacturing? Jennifer Woolwich did and discovered that in fact, PV Recycling was one aspect of the solar industry that was missing. So in February 2009, she created...
If you want to study how a feed-in tariff can positively affect a market, you only need to look at Ontario. According to Chantal Ramsey, Consul of Economic Affairs for the Ontario government, the province has been overwhelmed with the success of its...
Day one of Intersolar kicked off for me with a press conference with SolarWorld. The company announced that it was donating 100kW to the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF). Bob Freling, executive director of the organization graciously accepted the donation...
Here are 5 industry reactions to the gulf oil spill that will make you laugh, cry and hopefully take some action. I had been expecting it to happen ever since the oil started to gush at the bottom of the gulf. We all knew that the renewable energy industry...
Some interesting renewable energy stories rolled across our RenewableEnergyWorld.com editorial desks this week and with so much of our team in Phoenix at Solar 2010, we weren’t able to cover them properly. So I’m rounding them up for you here. First,...
An interesting piece of information floated across my desk today and it touched on something that I’m working on so I thought I would share it. One of my news sources, Guy M. Zaczek, sent out a letter explaining that a new Energy Management technical...
If you ask Austen Librach and Larry Alford of Austin Energy whether or not the utility is ready for the grid impact of up to 100,000 plugged-in electric vehicles (PEV) charging up overnight, they’ll give you an unequivocal “yes!” In fact, back in 2006,...
Two organizations with long histories in the renewable energy industry have recently unveiled online tools that will help global and local communities analyze critical components of renewable energy development and ultimately make better decisions that...
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