Nuclear energy has been, and still is, a vital part of the current U.S. energy picture. It has provided a steady baseload energy source for decades, and this may continue — it is projected that U.S. nuclear plants will last another 50+ years. If you’re interested in clean energy generation, then at least nuclear isn’t a dirty fossil fuel like coal,
It was a year ago this week that Apple CEO Tim Cook responded to a climate-change heckler at the company’s annual shareholder meeting with an impassioned rebuttal in which he famously told investors who care only about profits to “get out of the stock.”
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I spent three days last fall with some of the biggest minds behind the “new economy” movement, noting how their core theme — economic democracy — is hand in hand with ILSR’s work on democratic energy. The big takeaway? Solar power is the spark to energize a new energy economy from the bottom up. This new solar-sparked electricity system will look v
Battery-based energy storage can play a valuable enabling role when it comes to renewable energy adoption, but storage can also do much more. Services such as peak shifting, backup power, and ancillary grid services are a small subset of the larger mat…
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With the generation capacity of renewables, led by solar PV and wind power, on the rise across the globe — 46 percent of newly installed generation capacity in 2013 was renewables — investors large and small are scrambling to find cost-effective means to store power and balance energy systems.
Microinverter manufacturer Enphase announced today that it is significantly expanding its energy services arm with the acquisition of California-based O&M provider Next Phase Solar. Enphase Energy Services’ (EES) gained more than 400 MW of solar assets with the deal. With the new assets, the Enphase solar portfolio is now more than 450 MW.
In a new report, the Department of Energy (DOE) has highlighted the success of the Loan Programs Office’s solar projects, saying that since it financed its first five utility-scale projects in 2011, 17 additional projects have come on line without the use of loan guarantees. The report coincides with today’s dedication ceremony of Desert Sunlight,
The worldwide demand for energy is almost inexhaustible. Couple that demand with the need for clean energy — especially energy we can afford — and the picture gets a lot more complicated. Fortunately, good market research helps us to get some perspective of the potential for PV to meet these energy demands.
Russia’s Solar Systems, Germany’s SCHMID Group and Turkey’s Pekintas Group have established a long-term partnership to build a 200-MW turnkey PV cell and module manufacturing facility in Russia’s SEZ (special economic zone) in Alabuga, the Republic of Tatarstan. But the project has raised the eyebrows of some Russian energy sector experts who say that the factory “stands no chance” business-wise in the Russian and, moreover, in international PV production markets.
The largest utility in the U.S. is doubling down on distributed solar by taking an equity stake in commercial solar developer, REC Solar. The companies announced today that Duke will now own a majority stake of REC Solar and that together they will ma…
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