Articles by Adam Browning

How Sunpower plans to do it

Sunpower, a darling of the investor community, has the highest efficiency solar cells on the market. If you are interested in how they think they can reduce costs by 50% by 2012 and thereby reach grid parity -- that is to say, the point where solar is cost effective without subsidies -- listen here.

Rain, mixed with tears

For those under the impression that the events of the past few days represent an exciting opportunity for new course for our country, even reason to hope again -- well, meet Rep. John Dingell, the new head of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. In an interview on Wednesday, he gave a preview of what we might expect:

It’s not too complicated

The autopsy report for the 109th Congress is not complex. In my view, three things brought them down:

1. Stupid ideas
2. executed incompetently
3. often by criminals.

Fix those three little things ...

State boosts renewable standards to 15% by 2025

Yesterday, by a vote of 4-1, the Arizona Corporation Commission voted to expand the state's renewable energy standard to 15% by 2025, with 30% of that to come from distributed generation technologies. We're talking support for up to 2,000 MW of solar.

We'll take that over a sack of tootsie rolls and candy corn any day.