NREL analysis shows adding more solar to the grid can increase the ability of battery-based energy storage to support peak electricity demand. In other words, the technologies work better together than they do alone.
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Solar + Storage: Energy’s New Power Couple
Friday, December 7th, 2018Community Building Through Renewable Energy | GRID Alternatives
Friday, October 5th, 2018
Solar Works DC is a solar installation and job training program led by GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic, in Washington, DC. The program provides no cost solar to low-income communities and offers community members solar installation training and hands-on experience needed to pursue careers in the industry.
View this complete post...The Transition Takes Hold: Why the Clean Energy Transition Now Appears Irreversible
Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
In the U.S., the renewable energy sector has become a major job creator: since 2009, the solar industry created one out of every 80 new jobs, and the country’s fastest-growing occupation is wind turbine technician. While President Donald Trump may have promised to bring back coal jobs, he will no doubt find resistance—in both Congress and statehouses—should his efforts come at the expense of clean energy jobs.
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
“Fossil fuels, which provide 85% of our current energy, suffer from two fatal drawbacks. One of which is the fact that they produce greenhouse gasses that are undermining the viability of our climate and therefore our future of industrial society…The other drawback of fossil fuels is that fact that these are depleting, non-renewable resources…So one way or another we will be moving away from fossil fuels as time goes on, it’s just a question of whether we do it in a planned and organized way, or just wait until we can no longer afford to extract the stuff that’s left.”
View this complete post...Rooftop solar: Net metering is a net benefit
Monday, May 30th, 2016
GOOD Magazine: What Would it Take to Power the United States with Solar Energy?
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
We calculated the land area needed to supply the entire United States with solar power.
View this complete post...Low-Income Solar Policy Guide
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016
GRID ALTERNATIVES
VOTE SOLAR
CENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION
There are many effective policy tools for supporting solar adoption among consumers at large, and nearly all of them help expand low-income access to solar power to some extent. However, fully enabling low-income solar participation requires policies and programs that are specifically designed to address the unique barriers faced by these communities. This guide provides an overview of those barriers, as well as underlying principles for successful programs, existing policy tools that can be used to create programs, and examples of state and local models that have successfully improved access.
NYC’s Underground Park: Touring the Lowline Test Lab
Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
A test lab for the Lowline – the world’s first underground park – opens its doors to visitors in New York tomorrow. Here, founder James Ramsey leads us on an exclusive tour of the 1,200 sq m garden, which brings his vision to turn a disused trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street into a public green space closer to reality.
View this complete post...Shared Solar: Current Landscape, Market Potential, and the Impact of Federal Securities Regulation
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY
This report provides a high-level overview of the current U.S. shared solar landscape and the impact that a given shared solar program’s structure has on requiring federal securities oversight, as well as an estimate of market potential for U.S. shared solar deployment. Shared solar models allocate the electricity of a jointly owned or leased system to offset individual consumers’ electricity bills, allowing multiple energy consumers to share the benefits of a single solar array. Despite tremendous growth in the U.S. solar market over the last decade, existing business models and regulatory environments have not been designed to provide access to a significant portion of potential PV system customers.
Wilsonville, OR: Aerial Inspection of the Baldock Solar Station
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
Earlier this summer, the Oregon Department of Transportation participated in an aerial inspection of the solar panels at the Baldock Solar Station Array. The inspection was performed by Aerial Inspection Resources, who flew a drone equipped with a high resolution infrared camera that can detect malfunctioning solar cells by the extra heat they emit. PGE owns the nearly 7,000 panel array that is located at the French Prairie Rest Area, south of Wilsonville, and was interested in seeing how they could save time and manpower by inspecting the panels with this type of system.
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