Category: Solar
Wall Street and Regulators Choose Solar Over Fossil Fuels
Wall Street Favors Solar As Utilities Face Financial Threat For the past few decades the electricity sector in the U.S. has faced almost no competition and enjoyed access to cheap...
The External Costs of Fossil Fuels; Environmental and Health Value of Solar
Introduction Ratepayers and customers have been led to believe that a power plant burning coal or natural gas is the cheapest form of electricity and therefore, should be prioritized over...
How to Secure the Grid and Save Ratepayers Money
Background: The Aging Power Grid Knowing of how the electrical system works is critical to understanding why and how solar energy benefits the power grid. The U.S. electric grid consists...
Arizona Public Service Proposes To Install Free Solar Panels, Here’s What They Should Do Next
On July 28, Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) filed a proposal to state regulators seeking approval to install 20 megawatts (MW) of distributed solar generation on approximately 3,000 homes. APS...
Attacks on Renewable Energy Policy by Fossil Fuel Interests 2013-2014
Fossil fuel and utility interests, concerned about the rise of cheap clean energy, are financing attacks on pro-clean energy policies in an effort to delay the growth of their competition...
Duke Energy’s Plans To Attack Solar In North Carolina
In a sign it will seek to maintain its monopolistic control of North Carolina’s energy generation, Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good criticized solar net metering in a meeting with local...
Dominion Thwarts Solar Net Metering Bills in Virginia
Dominion successfully lobbied for substitute language that would give the company the right to build and own community solar.