A major driver of the recent push for residential solar powers systems has come by way of companies offering leases. These large, well funded companies have done well in selling lease arrangements to less than savvy homeowners. The fact is …
From Guest Blogger Nick Tedesco: Why It Is Better To Own Than Lease A Solar Power System Read More »
Energy bills are soaring and there seems to be very little you can do about it. Fossil fuels are our primary source of energy and are getting depleted really fast. It has become our responsibility and obligation to preserve and …
From Guest Blogger Penny Olmos: Harnessing Solar Power for Your Homes Read More »
In an unprecedented move for a furniture retailer of the likes of Ikea, the company is now actively entering the solar market and stands to make a huge impact in the spread of solar energy in the UK. As the world’s largest furniture …
From Guest Blogger Dana: Ikea Focuses its Attention on the Solar Market Read More »
Here’s an article about a breakthrough in super-concentrated solar PV from IBM researchers in Europe. Incident sunlight is focused from a large parabolic mirror onto a semiconductor chip, producing electricity. What’s new here? Well, the concentration rate is 1000:1, meaning …
Super-Concentrated Solar PV – Looks Like a Breakthrough Here Read More »
Solar energy is ubiquitous, free, green and easy to use. Many of the primary drawbacks — extreme expense, the need for clear skies and the capacity of the standard battery — have been minimized or solved in the last decade. …
From Guest Blogger Matt: How Solar Powers your Home and the World Read More »
At a party last weekend, someone asked me to speculate as to what Google’s grand plans are. Of course, I have no more real insight into this than the next guy, but, given their $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest, one …
Here’s an amusing little tidbit on the purchase of rooftop solar I just came across: “Researchers Raina Russo of SolarChat and Glenna Wiseman of Identity3 compiled some initial results from their survey of American women and mothers about solar power …
In the Battle of the Sexes, Who’s the Driver Behind a Solar PV Purchase? Read More »
Here are all 10 parts of a video I recorded recently on the history of solar energy. It’s an interview with John Perlin, author and scholar-in-residence in the physics department at the University of California at Santa Barbara. John is …
The Long and Fascinating History of Solar Energy Read More »
I just got off the phone with a bright new intern at 2GreenEnergy, Avdit Kohli, who’s wrapping up his master’s degree in electrical engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. Insofar as Avdit’s main interest at this point is the technology …
2GreenEnergy Intern To Explore the Cutting-Edge of Technology Behind Solar Photovoltaics Read More »
Here’s a fairly bullish article on solar energy, but it takes an unusual twist, and ends up confusing readers. The levelized cost of energy that Goldman Sachs projects for PV-based energy 2030 is $0.20/kWh, which is far more than it …
