SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Rafael Guzmán and Leinaí Romero spent more than four months without power after Hurricane Maria struck last September, relying on a generator to run a refrigerator, two fans and cellphone chargers. When the married couple learned in April they were having a baby, they made a pledge: “We aren’t going through that again.” They installed 16 solar …
Permitting and inspections are notoriously tedious tasks. In the rooftop solar industry, they’re also very costly — when industry members say they don’t need to be. To fix the issue, the Solar Energy Industries Association and The Solar Foundation today launched the Solar Automated Permit Processing (SolarAPP) initiative, which is designed to streamline permitting and slash the cost of installing solar on homes and businesses. …
The Capital City’s goal of total renewable energy may be three decades away, but you wouldn’t know it by the breakneck pace its energy policymakers have set. The city recently received kudos from the Sierra Club for its June commitment to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 in its “Ready for 100%” report, a campaign the organization has been backing …
Solar photovoltaic technology is getting cheaper, more efficient and more resilient all the time. But it still doesn’t make a good replacement for asphalt. After years of trial projects, a handful of “solar roadway” projects around the world are revealing just how expensive it is to use roads, rather than rooftops and empty fields, as the world’s future solar surface. …
Earlier this year, I published an article analyzing how President Trump’s corporate income tax cut would affect the financial returns of commercial solar PV projects. I used my company’s PV design and sales software to calculate that Trump’s tax cut could range from very positive for cash-financed solar projects (up to 27 percent increase in NPV), to slightly positive for …
HOLYOKE — Next to the remnants of a coal-fired power plant, a cleaner source of energy popped up about two years ago: a 22-acre field of solar panels. On Tuesday, the 5.8-megawatt solar farm unveiled a new battery storage system that will give the project a major boost. On such an overcast day, though, there wasn’t a lot of sun …
CLOSE Ryan McCune, vice president of sales and marketing, explains how a solar farm works. He is speaking in front of a solar farm on Jacksonville Road. Matt Steecker, ithacajournal.com | @MSteecker The solar farm that produces 2.3 megawatts is located in Enfield and is the largest in Tompkins County.(Photo: Provided photo) Tompkins County is a leader in solar energy …
Photo: Gabriel Rivera When I first met Gabriel Rivera last year in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the engineer was driving around with solar panels in his car. Hurricane Maria had ravaged the island on 20 September 2017 and knocked out the entire grid. Rivera was building household emergency kits, consisting of a solar panel hooked to a battery, to help …
<!– //www.cnbc.com/staticContent/showads.js –> MENUSEARCH QUOTES Sustainable Energy German energy business Innogy has commenced preparation works on Australia’s biggest solar project to date. Construction works on the Limondale facility — located near the town of Balranald, New South Wales — are set to begin in October, with full commercial operation expected by the middle of 2020, Innogy said in a statement …
While sunlight has increasingly gained appeal as a clean and abundant energy source, it has one obvious limitation — there is only so much sunlight per day, and some days are a lot sunnier than others. In order to keep solar energy practical, this means that after sunlight is converted to electrical energy, it must be stored. Normally this takes …