by Stu E.D. | Apr 1, 2015 | Alternative Living, Products & Services, Solar Power
As solar power—both giant farms and small rooftop installations—enjoys tremendous growth across the U.S., there’s been pushback from big utility companies. They’ve campaigned to end net metering, in which solar panel owners can return unneeded power they’ve generated...
by Stu E.D. | Mar 20, 2015 | Alternative Living, Living Skills, Products & Services, Solar Power
Michigan University researchers have devised what looks like the world’s first fully transparent solar cell. Think of all of those tall glass buildings; wouldn’t it be nice if all that incoming solar energy was harvested somehow? Likewise, why not let your smartphone...
by Stu E.D. | Mar 8, 2015 | Environment, Solar Power, World News
More than a dozen solar energy projects — each of which will generate more than 100 megawatts of energy — are either being built or have been completed. Clean energy is hot. A groundswell of support for renewable power has sprung up around the world over...
by Stu E.D. | Mar 7, 2015 | Hawaii, Solar Power
The commercial solar energy market in Hawaii has turned into a race of sorts, a race for businesses to get their systems in place before a federal tax credit sunsets at the end of 2016. “Right now for us, we're very busy,” Todd Georgopapakas, partner of...
by Stu E.D. | Feb 26, 2015 | Hawaii, Products & Services, Solar Power
Hawaii’s solar industry has lost 400 jobs since 2013 and currently employs 2,200 people, according to a new report released by The Solar Foundation, a nonprofit solar research organization. The 15 percent decline was quickly panned by the local solar industry, which...
by Stu E.D. | Feb 17, 2015 | Products & Services, Solar Power
New Tesla Home Battery Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, announced Wednesday that the company is working on a new kind of battery that would be used to power homes. Based on Tesla’s lithium-ion battery technology, the new battery is expected to help the company become a...
