Two weeks ago, SolarCity joined competitors SunEdison, First Solar and SunPower as the fourth vertically integrated solar company in the United States. In order to achieve this status, they acquired California-based Silevo, a manufacturer of hybrid solar panels combining thin-film …
From 2GreenEnergy Intern Louis de Saint Phalle: SolarCity’s Big Plans for the Future Read More »
I’ll be in San Francisco next Tuesday and Wednesday for the InterSolar show, primarily to engineer a deal between my client PlexiSun (building integrated solar thermal hot water heating) and a prospective OEM. Of course, while I’m there, I’ll be …
InterSolar Show Hosts Important Developments in the Solar Industry Read More »
Here’s another reason I couldn’t last 10 minutes in Washington: I wouldn’t be able to find the words to express why the United States should use its financial resources, a huge percentage of which are tied up in war machinery, …
I just got back from the annual Summer Solstice Festival in Santa Barbara, CA. Needless to say, the demographic make-up of these folks is distinctly left-of-center; it’s a fairly “Age of Aquarius” type of crowd—one in which Fox News fans …
Sungevity Offers Solar Photovoltaics to an Appropriate Audience in Santa Barbara Read More »
Here’s an article that speaks to a few concepts that are near to my heart: using solar PV to bring computing to a schoolroom, made from a repurposed shipping container, located in rural Africa. Congratulations to Samsung for making this …
Solar PV from Samsung Brings Computing to African Schoolrooms Read More »
Recently, the United States Naval Research Laboratory put into plans to build solar panels that are to be placed in space with the capability to beam the energy collected directly to Earth. Sounds like a plot to a James Bond …
As I’ve reported before, I find the appeal of crowdfunding is something of an enigma; in fact, it’s totally lost on me. According to an expert on the subject I happen to know, “Over 80% of what we see on …
I spent an uncharacteristically long time in the state of New Jersey last week, during which time I realized that, apparently, these people actually did make good on their threat to install little PV panels on each of 175,000 telephone poles. …
If you’ve come across the concept of the “solar roadway,” you know that replacing all our roads with this new kind of highly durable solar photovoltaic panel would generate more energy than all of us are using — three times …
What if we covered our roadways with solar PV? As this article suggests, there is no reason in theory that this can’t be done, since, apparently, durability isn’t an issue. And obviously, there is a lot to like about the …
