How Solar Can Transform the Real Estate Industry
Progress in solar financing is at the heart of the solar industry’s growth. Since the initial passage of the solar investment tax credit (ITC) back in 2005, and its extensions since then, financing has...
View ArticleFox News Misreports Clean Energy (again)
It’s getting to be a tired old story, but Fox News yet again has misreported and distorted the facts about clean energy. Fox News claimed that the future of solar power in the U.S. is “dim” because we...
View ArticleRECAP: Solar Market Insight 2012 “Google Hangout”
The Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA)’s and GTM Research’s “Google Hangout” on their new Solar Market Insight 2012 report just ended, and it was highly informative. If you missed it, here’s a...
View ArticleREPORT: “Compelling Reasons” to Develop Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)
A while back, we interviewed Belen Gallego, Founder & Director at CSP Today and PV Insider, on the future of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP). Now, researchers at CSP Today have completed a guide to...
View ArticleIn Pictures: Touring Ivanpah
On Tuesday, I had a chance to tour one of the most exciting cleantech projects around – the 370 megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System near Ivanpah, California in the Mojave Desert. This...
View ArticleThe Clean Economy: Good Politics and Policies
There are a lot of venues where clean economy players network and do business. Michael Liebreich’s excellent Bloomberg New Energy Finance summit and Pennwell’s Solar Power-Gen come immediately to mind....
View ArticlePolls: Voters in Key “Swing States” Strongly Support Clean Energy
A new series of polls (this time by bipartisan firm Public Opinion Strategies of key “swing states”) tells us once again something we already knew, but that can’t be repeated too often: clean energy is...
View ArticleThe Growth of Renewable Energy in the Mainstream Media
The beginning and end of the year are the best times to work in media because it forces us to look back and summarize what happened. It’s less about chasing stories and more about shaping an honest...
View ArticleHow Green Can We Get?
Recently, I’ve been watching Saul Griffith’s “Climate Change Recalculated,” a brilliant talk book about the connection between our individual carbon footprint (he presents his own in precisely measured...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Solar: Why It’s So Important
Crowdfunding is populism’s answer to the bank, and it’s being applied to solar. This once novel concept – a collective effort of individuals who network and pool their money, usually via the Internet,...
View ArticleWhat Obama Left Out of Executive Order List on Coal
What’s wrong with this picture? We give huge breaks to coal and utility companies to make electric generation from coal artificially cheap then require utilities to cut back using it. There are many...
View ArticleNY Times: “Clean Car Boom” is Here
As we noted the other day, “this is a good time to be in the business of selling electric vehicles.” Why? Three main reasons:...The post NY Times: “Clean Car Boom” is Here appeared first on Solar Feeds.
View ArticleThe Ivanpah Solar Plant Virtual Tour
Recently, I had the opportunity to tour the 370-megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System near Ivanpah, California, in the Mojave Desert. As I noted...The post The Ivanpah Solar Plant Virtual...
View ArticleGoogle Buys 240 MW of Wind Power
Courtesy of Treehugger, here’s yet more evidence that wind power has become an economically competitive, mainstream power source across America. Over the past The post Google Buys 240 MW of Wind Power...
View ArticleDisney: Discontinuing Pro-Fracking School Tour
Sometimes, the actual news seems more like an Onion parody. This is a great example. Radio Disney has withdrawn from a pro-hydraulic fracturing school tour backed by the oil and gas industry. Al...
View ArticleThe Ivanpah Solar Thermal Project is INSANE
Seven. The number of days in the week? The number of deadly sins? Yes, the correct answer to both of those questions is indeed “seven,” but that’s not what I’m getting at here. Instead, I’m referring...
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Elon Musk Disses Chris “Bridgegate” Christie
After reading “To the People of New Jersey,” I think it’s fair to say that Elon Musk deserves to win a prize for best blog post – not to mention best one liner! – of the week. Check it out. On...
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Solar Growth: Silicon Valley Who?
Solar power is making a splash this year Solar power is growing at such a rate that it had its hottest year for growth in the history of solar power, and the future still looks bright. According to...
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