The battle over renewable energy heated up in the courts this week as a coalition of states moved to file their complaint against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan and solar advocates challenged Hawaii regulators’ decision to end the current net metering program in the state.
Read MoreThe battle over renewable energy heated up in the courts this week as a coalition of states moved to file their complaint against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan and solar advocates challenged Hawaii regulators’ decision to end the current net metering program in the state.
Read MoreThe battle over renewable energy heated up in the courts this week as a coalition of states moved to file their complaint against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan and solar advocates challenged Hawaii regulators’ decision to end the current net metering program in the state.
Read MoreSunEdison has been in the news of late and with a confusing acquisition strategy, interesting financial decisions, layoffs and high debt — it is beginning to look a lot like MEMC.
Read MoreSunEdison has been in the news of late and with a confusing acquisition strategy, interesting financial decisions, layoffs and high debt — it is beginning to look a lot like MEMC.
Read MoreSunEdison has been in the news of late and with a confusing acquisition strategy, interesting financial decisions, layoffs and high debt — it is beginning to look a lot like MEMC.
Read MoreUntil recently, Spain had a very general self-consumption policy framework that applied to both grid-connected and off-grid systems. This month though, Spain’s Council of Ministers approved a new self-consumption law that has set the country’s solar advocates up in arms with the government.
The main problem with the new law, say solar advocates, is that it taxes self-consumption PV installations even for the electricity they produce for their own use and don’t feed into the grid. Spain’s PV sector calls the new law a ‘sun tax.’
According to Spain’s Photovoltaic Union (UNEF), the new law requires self-consumption PV system owners to pay the same grid fees that all electricity consumers in Spain pay, plus a so-called ‘sun tax’. Specifically, said UNEF, a self-consumption PV owner “will pay a ‘sun tax’ for the whole power [capacity] installed (the power that you contracted to your electricity company, plus the power from your PV installation) and also another [second] ‘sun tax’ for the electricity that you generate and self-consume from your own PV installation (this applies to installations larger than 10 kW).”
Read MoreUntil recently, Spain had a very general self-consumption policy framework that applied to both grid-connected and off-grid systems. This month though, Spain’s Council of Ministers approved a new self-consumption law that has set the country’s solar advocates up in arms with the government.
The main problem with the new law, say solar advocates, is that it taxes self-consumption PV installations even for the electricity they produce for their own use and don’t feed into the grid. Spain’s PV sector calls the new law a ‘sun tax.’
According to Spain’s Photovoltaic Union (UNEF), the new law requires self-consumption PV system owners to pay the same grid fees that all electricity consumers in Spain pay, plus a so-called ‘sun tax’. Specifically, said UNEF, a self-consumption PV owner “will pay a ‘sun tax’ for the whole power [capacity] installed (the power that you contracted to your electricity company, plus the power from your PV installation) and also another [second] ‘sun tax’ for the electricity that you generate and self-consume from your own PV installation (this applies to installations larger than 10 kW).”
Read MoreDBL Partners, the same venture capital fund that supported SolarCity for many years, has led the largest venture capital funding for distributed energy in Africa. Off Grid Electric announced today that it raised $25 million in a Series C investment.
Off Grid Electric, based in California and Tanzania, is installing solar in over 10,000 homes and businesses per month with what it calls “its radically affordable solar leasing platform.” The company designs, manufactures, sells, installs and services solar home units in Tanzania and is announcing today that it will be entering
Read MoreDBL Partners, the same venture capital fund that supported SolarCity for many years, has led the largest venture capital funding for distributed energy in Africa. Off Grid Electric announced today that it raised $25 million in a Series C investment.
Off Grid Electric, based in California and Tanzania, is installing solar in over 10,000 homes and businesses per month with what it calls “its radically affordable solar leasing platform.” The company designs, manufactures, sells, installs and services solar home units in Tanzania and is announcing today that it will be entering
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