Accelerating Adoption — A #REWChat on Large-Scale Renewables
Join us on Twitter on Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 11 a.m. EST to explore the path for large renewable energy infrastructure progress in the near and long term.
Read MoreHuge Potential New Demand For Power: Part One
Community choice aggregators could displace as much as 20 percent to 40 percent of electricity load in California. They are a new kind of offtaker of renewable power.
Read MoreHuge Potential New Demand For Power: Part One
Community choice aggregators could displace as much as 20 percent to 40 percent of electricity load in California. They are a new kind of offtaker of renewable power.
Read MoreEnergy Policies on the 2016 Ballot
Citizen-sponsored ballot initiatives frequently demand progress on renewable energy implementation (and have for years), oftentimes these occur when state legislatures show little to no political will to increase locally-owned solar or wind e…
Read MoreThe Summer of Sun: Mid-Year 2016 Solar Insights
According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA), solar energy made up nearly 1.5 percent of total generation in the U.S. between the months of June 2016 through August 2016. That’s up from just over 1 percent during the same period in 2015. Total generation from solar energy during these three months is up over 38 percent year over year.
Read MoreGlobal Climate Talks Move to Marrakesh: Here’s What They Need to Achieve
Even though evidence on an ever-worsening global climate keeps pouring in with alarming frequency, the last 12 months have, in fact, been a relatively good year for global climate policy. Next week, the world’s countries meet in Marrakesh, Morocco, to follow up on the gains made at Paris last year, and to try to reconcile these two facts.
Read MoreNew Jersey Utility Makes Headway on Solar Program for Landfills, Brownfields
Newark, N.J.-based Public Service Enterprise Group hopes to get a positive ruling by the end of 2016 from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities on its plans to develop 33-MW of grid-connected solar energy on existing landfills and brownfield locations.
Read MoreVote Solar Seeks Review of Nevada Regulators’ 2015 Net Metering Ruling
Advocacy group Vote Solar, along with environmental law firm Earthjustice, recently filed a petition with the First District Court of the State of Nevada for review of two Public Utilities Commission (PUC) of Nevada orders last year that created a new …
Read MoreMercedes-Benz to Introduce Residential Energy Storage Product in US
Mercedes-Benz on Nov. 3 said it plans to introduce a modular residential energy storage product in North America next year.
Read MoreHelping Hawaii Chart a Path to 100 Percent Renewable Electricity
The U.S., and the world as a whole, is now in a transition to a clean energy future. The State of Hawaii—a leader in this transition since it established the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative in 2008 with the Energy Department—is well on its path toward achieving the most ambitious clean energy target in the country.
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