Missouri votes in a Renewable Portfolio Standard of 15% by 2021, while Hawaii announces a plan for implementation of its policy-leading Clean Energy Initiative.

Buying a solar energy system is like buying any other product: in order to make an educated purchase, you’ve got to understand a bit of the lingo. This week, we’ll briefly review net metering - a concept that lies at the very center of how, and why, solar energy can make financial sense. Then, we’ll [...]

These are unstable times and the recent performance of solar stocks seems to have everyone suddenly concerned about the future of the industry that mere weeks ago seemed to be on a spectacular rise. So I wish everyone with these doubts could have wandered the halls of San Diego’s convention center last week: over 400 [...]

Ah, what a difference a few weeks can make… For solar energy enthusiasts like us, there has been both good and bad news. Massive volatility in the market has left no sector of the economy untouched. Banks put the kybosh on lending. Otherwise-healthy companies found it harder and harder to raise funds by issuing debt. [...]

A week’s worth of noteworthy solar happenings: a new thin-film solar module constructed as a cylinder, the Army puts in a huge solar thermal plant, a winery in California gets the biggest solar panel system on a winery in the world, a MA utility looks at four locations for solar panel installations around Boston, and a few other goodies.

A closer look at the details of funding for HR 7060, the solar tax credit bill currently stalled in the Senate.

If you read our blog regularly, you might have noticed that I’m always ranting about how solar needs to be popularized before it will really sweep the nation. Well, it’s not there yet, but the last couple of weeks have given me a bit of hope. For one thing, last week’s Democratic National Convention in [...]

My eye was caught by this bit of news, just a small GreenBiz.com report on a small survey about consumer responses to different kinds of utility incentives to save energy. The company that conducted the 1,000 person survey was EcoAlign, a consulting agency looking getting in on the “green market”. The findings of the study [...]

A look at solar projects nation-wide.

This article from CNN about a MIT professor working on thin-film solar curtains has all kinds of food for thought on an important issue: how solar will integrate with our existing conceptions of what a home looks and feels.
When you hear “solar curtains,” the idea that comes to mind are pretty basic - the same [...]