photovoltaic
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Southern California Edison signs another big photovoltaic farm deal
Solar farms could be sprouting in the Nevada desert.Photo: FotowatioSouthern California Edison on Wednesday announced another big photovoltaic power plant deal, this time to buy electricity from a 250-megawatt solar farm to be built by First Solar. Add that contract to 831 megawatts’ worth of photovoltaic power purchase agreements the Los Angeles utility signed with […]
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Solar gets big and cheap in California
A San Francisco solar installation. Photo: Gavin NewsomEarlier this week, I wrote about the green evolution in California regarding electric cars. Well, when it comes to solar energy, it’s starting to look more like a revolution. This week, utility Southern California Edison asked regulators to approve 20-year contracts to buy 250 megawatts of electricity from […]
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Report: Big solar thermal power's days are numbered
Competition from ever-cheaper photovoltaic panels could cool demand for solar thermal.
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Renewable energy economies of scale are b.s.
This is part of a series of posts on distributed renewable energy that will be posted to Grist. It originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. I had a conversation with a wind developer yesterday and was talking about the difference between putting together large projects […]
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Why we won't have a green energy revolution without the smart grid
The rise of renewable energy and electric cars will vastly complicate how the power grid operates. That means it's going to have to get a lot smarter.
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The focus on big projects holds back solar in U.S.
While the government lavishes loans and expedites project reviews on public land for multi-megawatt solar projects, it's solar PV that's turning sunshine into electricity.
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Maldives leader puts solar on presidential mansion
Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed personally helped install an 11.5-kilowatt solar array on his home in conjunction with 350.org and Global Work Day
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Solar cell production climbs to another record in 2009
This article was written by my colleague J. Matthew Roney at the Earth Policy Institute. Solar photovoltaic (PV) cell manufacturers produced a record 10,700 megawatts of PV cells globally in 2009 — an impressive 51 percent increase from the year before. While growth in 2009 slowed from the remarkable 89 percent expansion in 2008, it […]
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Big day for solar at the California Public Utilities Commission
Today, the California Public Utilities Commission issued two big solar decisions.