1,000 year old cathedral goes solar
From TreeHugger Solar panels are great. So is architectural conservation. But what should we do when historic buildings want to incorporate cutting edge clean energy technology? It’s [...]
Solar panels surpass coal-fired electricity in previously ‘unthinkable’ feat
For six months until September, more electricity came from sunlight than coal-fired power stations From The Independent Solar panels generated more electricity than coal in the past six months in [...]
Solar Means Business 2016
From SEIA The top corporate solar users in the United States have now installed more than 1 gigawatt (GW) of solar capacity, enough to power 193,000 homes. These Fortune 500 companies have [...]
Wal-Mart Leads the Nation in Corporate Solar Deployments. What Will It Do With Storage?
The big-box giant mulls its next move in distributed energy. by Julian Spector for Greentech Media The leading corporate adopter of solar doesn’t hail from California, as might be expected, [...]
City turning landfill site into solar energy field
by Kevin D. Thompson Palm Beach Post Staff Writer For about 30 years, the old 63-acre landfill off Washington Avenue, just a few blocks west of South Dixie Highway on the south end of Lake Worth, [...]
Can Solar Keep Up Its Exponential Growth?
From Triple Impact Solutions We’ve seen a lot of hype about the growth of solar in recent years and how it’s expected to be the dominant source of energy by 2030. Just in case you’ve been hiding [...]
This Week in Tech: Greenbuild 2016 Takes L.A.
From Architect Plus, the cost of solar panels could continue to lessen, Sefaira adds a new functionality to its program, and more from this week’s design-tech news from around the internet. [...]
Solar outstrips coal in past six months of UK electricity generation
From the Guardian Electricity generated by solar panels on fields and homes outstripped Britain’s ageing coal power stations over the past six months in a historic first. Climate change analysts [...]
