Future Rooftop Solar Costs – Getting to $2.50/watt

Future Rooftop Solar Costs – Getting to $2.50/watt

Mar 6, 2017 | Battery Storage Systems, Business, Cheap Energy, Economics, Energy Politics, Energy Saving Tips, Energy Technology, Home Improvement, Improving Solar, Residential Solar, Solar Financing, Solar Industry, Solar Installers

The solar industry is one of our most obvious success stories. Our industry directly employs 261,000 people. We generate energy that is both clean and renewable. And we generate this energy at prices that are less than conventional utility power – as low as 6 cents...
DOE Jobs Report

DOE Jobs Report

Feb 17, 2017 | Energy Politics, Government

In January the Department of Energy (DOE) published their annual jobs report. The U.S. energy industry employees 6.4 million people. The largest two employment categories are oil extraction and solar, with solar growing the fastest among all fuel types. According to...
Carbon Tax

Carbon Tax

Jan 27, 2017 | Energy Politics, Energy Technology, Tax Incentives

“Pigovian Tax.” If you know what this means, then you can skip this week’s Energy Show on Renewable Energy World. For everyone else (including me until I looked up the word) a Pigovian tax is a tax levied on an undesirable market activity to offset the negative...
I Was Wrong About Peak Oil

I Was Wrong About Peak Oil

Dec 12, 2016 | Economics, Energy Politics

We used to worry about the time when the world would start running out of fossil fuels, defined as Peak Oil. The concept of Peak Oil is when the maximum rate of extraction of petroleum is reached, after which production is expected to enter terminal decline causing...
Solar Under the Trump Administration

Solar Under the Trump Administration

Nov 21, 2016 | Energy Politics, Solar Installers

Our country had a surprise when Trump was elected as our next President. He takes office in fewer than two months. Compared to his predecessors, President Elect Trump has very different views about energy, manufacturing and business in general. Many of these views are...