Solar Energy News
Mobile Phone Adoption In Africa Can Provide Tools, Demand, and Lessons for Off-Grid Electrification
Hundreds of millions of phones ( a nd smartphones ) have been activated in Africa . But the aspiration of portable and renewable off-Grid solutions for all households still appears far-fetched . In countries like Nigeria, many urban household s…
Read more →Solar Kiosk Turns a Sleepy Kenyan Village Into An Urban Center
After decades of failed initiatives to extend electricity access, over 600 million people in Africa still do not have access to electricity . With current trends, it will take until 2080 for everyone in Africa to have access to electricity.…
Read more →SolarCity and Tesla Package First Solar-Storage PPA To Deliver Solar Energy On Demand in Kaua'i
SolarCity announced it had chosen sister company Tesla's Powerpack to provide 52MWh of energy storage for what's billed as the U.S.' first utility-scale solar PV-energy storage system being built on the Hawai'ian island of Kauai'i.
Read more →New York's Solarize Campaign Harnessing Collective Buying Power For Shared Solar Gardens
Governor Andrew M. Cumoo on February 19 announced 900 solar projects are in progress across 26 community Solarize campaigns. https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-900-solar-projects-underway-through-26-community-solarize-campaigns-0 NY Governor Andrew Cuomo announced 900 solar projects are in progress across 26 community Solarize campaigns. Another 31 Solarize campaigns are ready for a spring launch.
Read more →Microgrid Business Models Gain Traction In Kenya As Africa Leapfrogs Electric Grid
Kenya Microgrid Company SteamaCo Is Deploying Renewable Energy, Pay-As-You-Go Microgrids In Rural Africa One of the most interesting aspects of distributed energy is that rural areas in developing countries have a major advantage. Not only do they have the most…
Read more →Sungevity To Employ Cyber-Secure Energy Monitoring and Management Software from CleanSpark
Commercial solar customers of Sungevity will now utilize cyber-secure energy monitoring and management software from microgrid company CleanSpark . Better known as a residential solar provider, Sungevity sees an opportunity in the 'small-scale business sector,' which includes retail stores, medical…
Read more →Florida, Nevada Pull the Plug on Solar Energy
Grass roots political ¨battles¨ continue to spark and ignite in U.S. states. Two recent developments, in Nevada and Florida, highlight the high state of flux of U.S. power markets and industry, while also revealing the ¨shenanigans¨ proponents get up to in promoting their causes.
Read more →Massachusetts PV Project Highlights Benefits of Solar Brownfields
The U.S. is home to more than 450,000 so-called brownfields. A just completed solar PV array in Massachusetts highlights the multiple and varied shared benefits and added value solar brings to remediation efforts.
Read more →Obama Doubles Renewable Energy Funding
Barack Obama has announced this weekend that the budget for renewable energy funding will be doubling within five years in an attempt to commit to pledges during the Paris Climate Summit in 2015. Making climate change the focus of his ‘Weekly Address’ emphasising his vision for a renewable future in the US, the President stated that he will be sending the proposal to Congress this week.
Read more →Lockheed Martin Signs Power Purchase Agreement With Duke Energy
Duke Energy’s corporate solar energy program is generating what’s shaping up to be a steady stream of high profile customers – Google and Corning among them. Adding to the roster is Lockheed Martin, which signed a 17-year solar power purchase…
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Austin Readies Launch of 2 SHINES Solar-Storage Pilot Projects
Austin Energy's SHINES pilot projects are to pave the way toward a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of $0.14/kWh for solar PV systems that employ advanced Li-ion battery-based storage to dispatch electrical power night and day.
Read more →Solar-Storage On the Rise in Europe as Solar Tax Credits And Feed-in Tariffs Fall
The declining costs of battery storage technologies (Li-ion in particular) and ratcheting down of solar tax credits and feed-in tariffs (FiTs) is enhancing the financial viability of integrating solar PV and stationary battery systems. That's true in the broadest of…
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Infocast Announces the 6th Annual Defense Renewables Summit Scheduled for March 2016 in Arlington, VA.
Los Angeles, CA. – January 13, 2016 – Infocast, a world leading business intelligence and networking events producer in renewable energy finance, investment, and development has announced the 6 th Defense Renewables Summit , scheduled for March 15–16, 2016 in…
Read more →Veridian Microgrid To Combine Tesla Powerwall, EV Charging, and Solar Using Opus One Software
Veridian Connections announced this week they are rolling out a “ virtual power plant ,” with a new microgrid system. The southern Ontario utility says the microgrid project will provide significant benefits to their customers. "This project serves as the…
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Eugene Water & Electric Board Set to Test Solar-Storage Microgrids
Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) has launched a two-year, $1 million project that entails using solar panels, advanced battery and smart grid technology to test the capacity of microgrids to supply electrical power for critical infrastructure and public emergency/disaster…
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VEIC Poised to Launch Sun Shares Community Solar Program
Vermont was one of the first U.S. states to enact virtual net metering (VNM), adding to its reputation as a clean energy leader. State and local energy reforms such as enacting VNM are essential if the U.S. is to succeed…
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Microgrid System Laboratory Partners To Include NREL, DOE, Clean Coalition, Duke Energy and others
Most existing microgrids are inefficient, poorly optimized, and overwhelmingly diesel-powered. The newly formed Microgrid System Laboratory in Santa Fe, New Mexico is hoping to change that. It will be a "fully-integrated innovation center for decentralized energy systems," focusing on microgrid…
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Community Solar to Benefit From Process, Platform Standardization
With the potential to provide access to emissions-free electricity for the nearly half of the American population unable to host a rooftop solar PV system, Community Solar is on the rise in the United States. A variation on the theme…
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20x Growth Forecast in Remote Microgrid and Nanogrid Market
Microgrids are on the verge of an expansion that extends their use to a broader range of uses and end users worldwide. At this early stage of market evolution microgrid deployments are most numerous and growing fastest at remote sites…
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Google, Duke Join in Sourcing Data Center Power from New NC Solar Facility
Data Centers are among the largest and fastest growing consumers of electricity in the United States. According to NDRC , data centers are one of the "key drivers in the construction of new power plants." In 2013, US data centers…
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