Via PV Magazine, a report on India’s ambitious rooftop solar plans: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced ‘Pradhan Mantri Suryodaya Yojana’ under which 10 million households will get rooftop solar. The scheme is intended to not only reduce the electricity bill of the poor and middle class but also make India self-reliant in the field […]
Read more »Via Solar Daily, a report on plans to put rooftop solar panels on the Pentagon: Solar panels will be installed on the roof of the Pentagon as part of a push for clean energy at federal facilities, the US Department of Energy said Wednesday. The Pentagon is slated for upgrades including “rooftop solar panels, a […]
Read more »Courtesy of the New York Times, a report that some companies are leaving the state or reducing their presence there after California greatly reduced incentives for homeowners to install rooftop solar panels: California has long championed renewable energy, but a change in the state’s policies last year has led to a sharp decline in the installation […]
Read more »Via Energy Daily, an article on a new report stating that roof top solar proves to have key benefits over large solar farms: A new study shows size matters in solar energy. The first ever life-cycle analysis comparing big and small solar photovoltaic systems has concluded that small-scale solar systems are in fact better for […]
Read more »Via the Los Angeles Times, commentary on California’s solar power regime: As global leaders celebrated a hard-fought agreement to triple the world’s renewable energy production and transition away from fossil fuels, an attorney for the state of California was in a San Francisco courtroom Wednesday, defending a decision by appointees of Gov. Gavin Newsom to […]
Read more »Via The Guardian, a look at Australian efforts to scale use of solar panels quickly: For a brief period over several weekends this spring, the state of South Australia, which has a population of 1.8 million, did something no other place of a similar size can claim: generate enough energy from solar panels on the […]
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