As corporate renewable energy purchases expand, so do the risks
Rocky Mountain Institute offers insight into five corporate renewable energy procurement risks – price, shape, basis, volume, and operation – and follows with mitigation strategies and tools to widen the discussion within boardrooms.
In case of hurricane, apply Enphase, tighten bolts and mind your wind codes!
FEMA’s recommendations for solar system hurricane preparedness focused on structural engineering, installation competence, plus simply tightening the bolts regularly, along with microinverters to mitigate individual panel damage.
SPI 2018: Contradictions, disasters, resilience
This year’s opening session for largest gathering of solar professionals in the United States alluded to many of the themes that the solar industry is grappling with.
Solar slowly comes back online in North Carolina
Failures of the electric grid have affected large solar plants after Hurricane Florence, just as they are affecting centralized generation.
SunCast: Andrea Luecke and John Berger on the 1-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria
As part of the collaboration between pv magazine USA and SunCast, we bring you an audio special edition marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria and looking at the role that solar and energy storage has played in the recovery of Puerto Rico.
California aims beyond 100% clean electricity: negative emissions after 2045
Along with SB100 California Governor Brown has signed an executive order directing the state to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 and net negative greenhouse gas emissions after that.
How to install solar power strong enough for a hurricane
The 2017 hurricane season gave analysts at the Rocky Mountain Institute a broad dataset of storm-related solar power plant outcomes, from which they have delivered a list failures and specification for high wind speed survival.
Saving the stadium: how microgrid integration can improve venues’ disaster survivability
By using real-time weather data and energy management stadiums can better manage their own consumption, as well as sheltering local residents in the event of a natural disaster.
How Trump inadvertently proved that solar and wind are the future
The Trump Administration’s domestic energy policy has attempted a focus on strategic safety to support coal and nuclear, with zero focus on long term viability or cost, while forgetting that the sun shines everyday.
Distributed energy, with fewer wires
A SEIA white paper describes the concept of non-wire solutions and how this innovation can boost solar PV and other distributed energy resources.
