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When the UK Government introduced its Feed-In-Tariffs (FiTs) in April 2010, solar photovoltaic (PV) quickly became an attractive investment. Having seen the success of similar schemes in Germany, UK PV companies were quick to switch from targeting a small group of enthusiastic environmentalists with their PR and marketing campaigns, to more...
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On July 30th and 31st the world's largest blackout -- The Great Indian Outage -- stretching from New Delhi to Kolkata occurred. This blackout caused by northern power grid failure had put nearly 700 million people -- twice the population of the U.S. without electricity. A grid failure of this more...
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Recently, there has been an increase in popularity for off-grid solar systems for independence from utilities and grid-interactive systems for flexibility to easily switch from drawing from the grid when it's up or switching to off-grid power from other sources when the grid is down. This has resulted in more more...
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Solar energy can be the source of many benefits for India and the environment. Solar energy has the potential to re-energize India's economy by creating millions of new jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce the trade deficit and propel India forward as a "Green Nation." Solar Energy offers too many benefits more...
Reports of the death of the solar industry are greatly exaggerated. Yes, there have been some high profile bankruptcies of US solar companies -- Solyndra, Evergreen, Spectrawatt -- in 2011. But the solar industry as a whole is on a boom that is only going to increase in coming years. more...
A friend of mine called the other day very agitated because she heard a commentator/professor from MIT say on a national news cast "solar is too expensive". The news cast was about the nuclear plant meltdown in Fukushima, Japan. "Too expensive?" I was at a loss for words. With over more...
Posted By: Lee Barken
- Energy and Cleantech Practice Leader, Haskell & White, LLP
On: September 6, 2011
On: September 6, 2011
In March 2007, Community Housing Works, a non-profit developer/owner of low income housing projects, unveiled a 56-unit multi-tenant unit (MTU) apartment complex called Solara in Poway, California, in San Diego county. Solara was designed from the ground up to incorporate green and sustainability features, including a net-zero energy footprint goal. more...
The newest crop in India could be electricity from the sun. "Solar Farming" can help change India's energy economy to clean and efficient renewable energy during the day when it is needed the most, create millions of jobs, and could help India to energy independence and national security. Imagine a more...
While renewable energy production scenario is improving slowly in many developing nations, more action is now happening in the oil producing countries of the Middle East. Because, Middle East countries which have been leading the non-renewable energy race for the past few decades have now turned their sights to leading more...
Several energy sector commentators, writers and journalists have recently questioned the viability of concentrated solar thermal power conversion, even going so far to proclaim its impending demise. Solar thermal power conversion in the USA occurs to the north of 30°N, the latitude of New Orleans and also Cairo, Egypt and more...
