Solar sales don’t need to be quick or accurate – they need to be both
A compelling proposal is crucial to grabbing the homeowner’s interest before they close the door and head back inside.
The role of partnerships and planning in solar and storage asset management
Experienced O&M professionals and seasoned asset management teams are the linchpin of consistent and reliable power plant performance.
How to stop grading the land for solar and learn to love nature’s curves
All-terrain solar trackers solve for community pushback against destructive site grading.
Solar panel waste is not a significant problem
Solar panel waste will not be a problem because there is so little of it. However, there is a short-term problem in some places because panel deployment is growing fast and recycling is playing catch up.
Solar power generation soars in Mexico, southwestern U.S.
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that areas across Mexico and Southern Texas saw reduced cloud, leading to 120-130% of average September irradiance.
Corporate investment in climate tech is about more than dollars
Energy companies should look for investments that help them break into new markets, new segments of the value chain, or help to future-proof existing assets so that the risk-profile and shareholders’ tolerance for returns do not have to be the same as their core businesses.
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.
