The Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research report that in 2015, for the first time ever, solar beat out natural gas electricity generating capacity additions, with solar supplying 29.5 percent (equaling 7,286 MW) of all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. The residential solar market grew 66 percent […]
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Catalyst, a highly-regarded Australian weekly science program, has produced an excellent episode describing in a very accessible yet in-depth manner the technology that is enabling single-family homes and multi-family communities to vastly reduce their reliance on the electrical grid through the use of solar panels, battery storage, and energy management systems. In
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Moody’s reported this week that the global issuance of green bonds in 2016 could surpass $50 billion “by a significant margin.” Merely meeting the $50 billion threshold would mark a nearly 20% increase over the $42.5 billion issued 2015, which itself was the best year for green bonds since they were
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At the United Nations-hosted Investor Summit on Climate Risk this week Mike Bloomberg, Al Gore, and others urged businesses and philanthropists to invest more in renewable energy resources. The conference, organized by the nonprofit sustainable advocacy organization Ceres, is designed to sustain the momentum from Paris and catalyze further actions that investors,
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The distributed solar industry has thrived in recent years with the availability of low-cost financing for small-scale installations, with more than 750,000 homes and businesses going solar and new projects being installed every two minutes according to the Solar Energy Industry Association. Distributed-scale wind power, on the other hand, has
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