Via Renew Economy, a look at the next trend in solar – leasing plus storage: Last week, RenewEconomy broke news that Macquarie Group has obtained an electricity retail licence in Australia and that it intends establishing a solar leasing business. We have also seen in the last few months reports that various companies, including Sungevity, […]
Read more »Via The Conversation, an article on the potential of planted or painted roofs: It’s getting hot in the city, and our overheated cities are only going to get hotter still as more people pile in and development and energy use intensifies. But planting away the problem could be a surprisingly low-cost solution to create […]
Read more »Via Scientific American, a report on how – as the cost of solar power drops – more consumers find that they hold the upper hand as utilities fight to maintain paying customers and the relevance of the grid: Americans have begun to battle over sunshine. In sun-scorched Arizona a regulatory skirmish has broken out over […]
Read more »Courtesy of McKinsey, a commentary on solar power and how, as costs fall, the importance of solar power to senior executives is rising: The economics of solar power are improving. It is a far more cost-competitive power source today than it was in the mid-2000s, when installations and manufacturing were taking off, subsidies were generous, […]
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