California continues to lead the country in solar and renewable energy installations. A recent study in Solar Buzz reports that the U.S. solar market will grow tenfold by 2014. Considering the state of the economy and that big corporations are feeling threatned by small solar companies croping up, that may be a streach. If subsidies [...]
A year ago, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson in remarks in a speech, said “let’s use solar to transform Sacramento into the Emerald Valley”. As the year draws to a close and the economy remains sluggish, Sacramento leaders insist the potential for a green-tech boom is there, but admit the results, so far, are mixed. Having [...]
California will unvail its first solar feed-in tariff sometime in the first quarter of 2011. The current solar incentive program is being phased out. As usual, the United States is behind the rest of the world who have had feed-in tariffs for years. In Germany, homeowners are paid about 56 cents per kWh for power [...]
Large scale solar projects in California are racing to get on the board. In order to qualify for Federal stimulus money renewable energy projects must be approved by the appropriate regulatory bodies and meet other requirements by December 31, 2010. There is legislation in Congress to extend the Federal solar greeen energy stimulus money, but [...]
Homeowners and solar installers have a reason to be be happy. Last year, California Governor Schwartzenegger signed AB 920 knows as the California Solar Surplus Act. AB 920 forces utility companies to pay homeowners for the extra solar electricity they produce. Up until this time, the best homeowners could do is zero out their uitlity [...]
The recent round of Wikileaks have stirred my patriotic ire, so when I recently learned of Northrop Grumman’s sudden objection to a proposed Mojave Desert mega watt solar plant north of Los Angeles I initially reacted with uncharacteristic sympathy for the contractor. Since the solar plant proposal has gone through two years of hearings I [...]
Solar Job News – The emerging environmental sector has the potential to beat the national job trends with the enormous growth of clean energy installations. The national jobs growth reports are so dire, it defies belief at times. With America staring down 9% unemployment and may areas of California reporting as high as 22%, solar [...]
Texas solar companies are booming… just not in Texas. Dallas renewable energy investor Panda Power Funds is developing one of the country’s largest solar power plants… in sunny New Jersey. Texas’ second-largest power generator, NRG Energy, is investing in the world’s largest solar thermal power plant… in California. Solar incentives in Texas have come to [...]
The Philadelphia Eagles have made an historic move to power Lincoln Field with a combination of off-grid solar, wind and dual-fuel generated electricity. The Eagles are a shining example of a great corporate citizen making it the world’s first major sports stadium to convert to self-generated solar and wind renewable energy. In one the countries [...]
The U.S. Secretary of the Interior has given the green light to several alternative energy solar thermal parabolic plants in the California desert. These solar plants will have a combined capacity around 1,000 megawatts of electricity or the equivalent of a nuclear power plant. The project means more jobs and the air will be a little cleaner in [...]