"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Hawaiian Electric on Oaho has reached a milestone, 20 MW of installed rooftop solar. What’s more, customers can sell excess power into the grid for full retail credit. May many more electric companies follow their lead.
CSP focuses the heat of the sun onto a central tower to power turbines. Unforunately, it uses more water than any other form of energy generation. This is made worse by CSP plants invariably being located in deserts where water…
EnviroMission, an Australian company, plans to build the world’s largest solar tower energy plant in the world in Arizona by 2015. When completed, the central tower will be 2,625 feet tall, twice that of the Empire State Building, and one…
More people want solar on their roofs yet the grid can barely handle that much fluctuating power yet. High levels of customer-generated solar power on the grid can be problematic for utilities because the generation systems are outside their control,…
Photovoltaic plants are now much less expensive to build than solar thermal, even if solar thermal allows for power to be stored for later use in molten salt. So the trend for new solar is definitely PV. However, PV plants…