It Keeps Getting Cheaper To Install Solar Panels In The U.S. | ThinkProgress:
The cost of solar is dropping and the install capacity is quietly on the rise.
Prices are down to $.30 to $.90 per watt.
Plus the market is starting to be healthier. China is no longer allowed to dump their (artificially cheap) over capacity on the US and EU.
Even the White House is jumping onto sun power.
Very cool.
First Solar Achieves World Record 18.6 % Thin Film Module Conversion Efficiency | Business Wire: Wow. The technology is really moving up. FirstSolar’s thin film is really working its way up. That means you can produce more power with a smaller foot print. Or produce much more power with a bigger footprint. Very cool to see solar gaining on wind (and, of course, non-renewable sources of power). ‘via Blog this’
Read The EV Hurricane Disaster: a 1-sided scenario on our sister blog ScenarioPlans.com (also DelphiPlan.com). The EV disaster article analyzes a viral email that talks about how horrible it will be when a hurricane is storming into a population center and the electric vehicles are all stuck on the road with no possibility for charging. The unauthored and undated email makes the implied conclusion that we shouldn’t go to EVs because they could be problematic in…
Renewable Energy Patents in 2019 As you look at the companies that are winners in Renewable Energy (RE) you have distinct winners (and losers, especially in the fossil fuel world). But there are entire countries that stand to win as well. Several countries have become exporters of energy, for example, when they produce more regional energy than they can use. I like the image set related to 25 areas/countries that are winners in Renewable Energy…
California Becomes First State to Mandate Solar on New Homes – Bloomberg: California is 1/3 of the US economy and probably 1/3 of the US housing market. So, when California voted today to have mandatory solar on most new construction houses, this blows the top off of the non-solar rooftop. Headlines read that the CA house will now cost about an additional $10,000 to build with the energy efficiency and solar roof mandates. This Bloomberg…
In one recent edition of the New York Times, there were two very positive articles on energy efficiency and improving the cost/kwh of renewables. The Monday, November 24, 2014, issue featured “Good News on Energy,” by Ralph Cavanagh of theNatural Resources Defense Fund, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/opinion/good-news-on-energy.html? and “Solar and Wind energy Start to Win on Price vs. Conventional Fuels,” by Diane Cardwell, http://nyti.ms/1yJq2r0. From Cavanagh, peaked energy use occurred in the US in 2007 and has trended downward since…
Next generation of biofuels is still years away | Hattiesburg American | hattiesburgamerican.com: Biofuel is a byline in the energy mix. So biofuel is mandated. And because it is ordered to be true, it must be. And because it is ordered to be true, the mandate must meet the expectations. Thus is the problem with government subsidies… Burning food for fuel (corn to ethanol) is still a rather dumb idea, even though it is finally…
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