I hope readers enjoyed the webinar I did recently with solar energy hedge fund manager Shawn Kravetz; I certainly learned a great deal in the course of the interview. I wanted to take a moment and introduce another “friend of…
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Roen Financial Report on the Ardour Solar Energy Index
Tagged with: Ardour Solar Energy Index, Harris Roen, Roen Financial Report, Shawn Kravetz, solar energy hedge fund, solar energy stocks
Posted in Photovoltaics
Posted in Photovoltaics
Solar Photovoltaics — Ostensible Breakthrough
Frequent commenter and all-around good guy Tim Kingston sent me this video on an ostensible breakthrough in solar PV for my comment. I see claims like this constantly, and I’m never sure exactly how to evaluate them, since this isn’t…
India Deals with the Need to Install More Electricity Generation Capacity
Here’s a good article that discusses the pressures India faces to install more electricity generation capacity. In many respects, the issues are altogether different than those in the U.S. In particular, India is a nation in which supply doesn’t generally…
Tagged with: arctic ice cap disappearing, coal-fired power plants, financing of solar projects, India install electricity generation capacity, lights went out of 600 million people, Master Limited Partnerships, MLPs, solar at grid-parity, solar energy, solar pv, world’s largest blackout
Posted in Photovoltaics
Posted in Photovoltaics
From Guest Blogger Liz Nelson: Solar Power for the Small Business — Investing in Your Community
Energy demands are a hot topic in today’s society. Everyone is looking for a better way to conserve and live without sacrificing the creature comforts they have become reliant on. As a small business owner, you have the ability to…
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From Guest Blogger R. Hoyal: Solar Energy Hotels — The Future Is Bright
The resort and hotel business is extremely competitive and costly. As more and more hotels become increasingly extravagant, they require evermore energy to run. Many are switching to green renewable energies to cut costs and in theory they could eventually…
Solar Energy – Making It Happen in the U.S.
It’s no secret that the U.S. lags most of the rest of the developed world in terms of the adoption of renewable energy. It would be nice if there were a singular cause for this that we could simply identify…
Thin Film Solar Breaks Efficiency Record
When I got started in this subject a few years ago, the efficiency of thin film solar (i.e., the percentage of sun’s radiant power that is converted into electricity) was measured in single digits. Here, we just achieved 16.1%, a…
Energy Pragmatism
In response to my piece that rails on the environmental extremists who decry solar if it carries with it the slightest ecological downside, frequent commenter Larry Lemmert writes: I am really proud of you Craig. I have long thought that…
Tagged with: energy pragmatist, environmental extremists, solar ecological downside
Posted in Photovoltaics
Posted in Photovoltaics
Solar Photovoltaics in the Desert: Under Attack
At the Nature Conservancy’s “Green Event for Georgetown Alumni” I attended last Thursday I received some shocking news: mainstream environmentalists really are attacking solar energy sited in the deserts of the U.S. southwest on the basis of its ecological footprint. …
Tagged with: burning fossil fuels, clean electricity, coal-fired power plants, cryptobiotic soil crusts, desert tortoise, disinformation from the fossil fuel industry, environmentalists attacking solar energy, Green Event, hazardous materials in solar panels, installing solar PV, lifecycle emissions of solar PV, Nature Conservancy, siting solar damage to the environment
Posted in Photovoltaics
Posted in Photovoltaics
Germany’s Generous PV Subsidies Have Had Serious Implications: What Can We Learn?
Frequent commenter Cameron Atwood sent me this article describing Germany’s generous subsidies for solar PV and asked me to react to it. Yes, the German program was overzealous; no one (no one I’ve come across, at least) disputes that. The…
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