Building not your average dream home
The first in the series “Not Your Average Dream Home,” which delineates how the author chose the perfect plot of land in the U.S. that is most likely to be safe for the next few decades from the risks caused by human climate disasters.
Not all ‘lithium-ion’ batteries are dangerous
As the energy storage trend unfolds, stories litter the media landscape about lithium-ion batteries catching fire, and even exploding. It’s a valid concern, and the time for consumers to understand a basic truth about lithium-ion batteries is long past due.
IRA one year later and the future of community solar
Achieving the Inflation Reduction Act’s goals and working through the clean energy transition is going to require innovative program designs and lots of them. The demand is enormous and bipartisan, coming from 45 red and blue states across the country; this diversity highlighting the importance of effective program design and selection by federal implementers.
Center for Model Policy Development brings unity to clean energy transition
The Solar and Storage Industries Institute launched the Center for Model Policy Development, a new effort to help harmonize state policymaking around barriers to clean energy deployment.
What causes batteries to degrade?
Having discussed battery chemistry in a previous article, Volytica diagnostics here examines the causes of battery degradation and how to extend device lifetimes, ahead of a pv magazine webinar tomorrow.
Strengthening the solar supply chain
From Covid disruptions to concerns about forced labor to volatile prices, the U.S. has been dealing with a myriad of supply chain disruptions. What we need now is certainty.
Equity-centered regulation is vital to a clean energy future for all
True energy equity requires that everyone have the opportunity, knowledge, and access to participate fully in the regulatory process.
Planes, trains, or automobiles: Which has the lowest carbon footprint?
Three industry professionals traveled 3,000 miles across America. Their mission: to dissect their carbon footprint. What they found was a complex calculation, with results more tightly-knit than anticipated – and a CO2 revelation.
How developers can capitalize on IRA support for community solar financing
The incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act are combining with an evolving distributed generation market and investors’ greater appetite for community solar to drive an uptick in renewable project financing and deployment.
Treasury and IRS propose renewable energy prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements
As the renewable energy industry adapts to a new normal, the NOPR outlines a more pragmatic path to compliance than many in the industry had feared based on Treasury’s Initial Guidance.
