It’s evident Florida lawmakers and regulators are taking steps to ensure that the Sunshine State lives up to its nickname. As reported by the Miami Herald, the Public Service Commission (PSC) will increase the rate paid to owners of renewable-energy systems. At issue is net metering, the process by which excess electricity from such systems—called [...]

For this week and next week, the news services will focus on the Democratic and Republican conventions, respectively. From now until Election Day, observers can expect to see discussion of climate change policies and technologies attached firmly to discussion of the relative merits of Barack Obama and John McCain’s energy proposals.
In one of the [...]

This not-exactly economical solar table and a great instance of the Olympics using solar deserve mention, but cooler still is Oregon’s decision to use solar to help power a highway interchange.
OregonLive.com, which reported the story, states that “it represents a critical first step in what the department envisions as widespread use of solar energy.” [...]

China may not have as advanced a solar program as Germany (although, as Eric’s noted, Germany’s solar subsidies recently underwent a drastic slash) or Spain do, but a few pockets of land both to the north and to the south have become shining beacons of light for the rest of the country.
Take Jiangsu province, for [...]

So, as a follow-up to a subject I spoke about in February - “A True Solar Dilemma” - another case has come up in Canada that touches upon most of the same issues. A family installed solar for their roof, and then new construction on an adjacent lot interfered with the available sunlight, rendering their [...]

Government support for solar is seeing one of its standouts slide backwards, as Germany is cutting back on solar subsidies. This is obviously extremely disappointing, and while this isn’t entirely new news, the human end economic cost of the goverment’s change in policy is becoming much more apparent. Solar installers are having to deal with [...]

A growing energy industry will obviously produce jobs, and renewables like solar have been a crucial part of that growth. RedOrbit has put out the latest in a string of articles about the positive effect of the energy industry on national job growth. With worries of an upcoming recession having turned into worries about the [...]

Telegraph UK reports that the British government will soon reverse its existing policy and will move to solar feed-in tariffs. The upshot is that Britain consumers will now be in a far better position to pursue economically feasible solar installations for their homes.

This is fantastic news by any standard. This also appears to be the [...]

I’ll admit it: I thought McCain was a shoe-in. And sure, he came out ahead in yesterday’s grand slam of primaries, but he got a run for his money from Romney and even, in some states, from the dark horse Huckabee.
Let’s be honest. We were all more on tenterhooks about the outcome of the Democratic [...]

The British Government produced this climate challenge video for its citizens, I find it very interesting not so much for the content, but for the fact that the government put it out. As I watched the video (many of the same themes you may have seen from the film “An Inconvenient Truth”) I [...]