LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy-Producing Retail Realty, Inc. ('EPR2') announces the first commercial solar installation in the US to take advantage of innovative financing that is poised to disrupt the commercial solar industry. The company's patent-pending business method enables the deployment of solar on commercial buildings through its proprietary Next Level Solar [...]
Katie Fehrenbacher AUGUST 17, 2015, 1:37 PM EDT Could a simple site hacked together by a Google engineer help lower costs in the solar industry in the U.S.? Google, which has long funded big solar and wind projects around the world, is stepping into the solar industry in a more web-based and traditionally Google-style way. [...]
TIM SHEEHAN ([email protected]) August 12, 2015 About 200 energy-industry representatives, environmentalists and elected officials from throughout the Valley gathered Wednesday at Fresno State for a daylong summit on the challenges and opportunities of building the region’s capacity for solar power and other renewable energy sources. Discussions at the summit explored how renewable energy can help [...]
A steel disc promises far more than grid balancing. Katherine Tweed August 10, 2015 In 2013, Camp Pendleton was awarded $1.7 million from the California Energy Commission for a microgrid demonstration project to be sited at the San Diego military base. The project, called FractalGrid, involves smaller microgrids, such as a parking garage and server [...]
Dan Merica, CNN Updated 7:38 AM ET, Mon July 27, 2015 Clinton sets a 10-year target Blasts climate change skeptics Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - Hillary Clinton pledged Sunday that as president she would put the United States on a path toward generating enough renewable energy to power every home in the country by 2027 [...]
These six shifts will transform markets over the next 25 years Tom Randall June 23, 2015 — 4:00 AM PDT The renewable-energy boom is here. Trillions of dollars will be invested over the next 25 years, driving some of the most profound changes yet in how humans get their electricity. That's according to a new [...]
The Energy Gang looks at the tangible progress that’s been made in utility reform. Stephen Lacey May 21, 2015 Discussion about changing utility business models has always been abstract. But with large utilities now getting hit financially by distributed energy, “utility 2.0” is starting to seem much more real. This week, we’ll look at the [...]
Re-Essa Buckels | @ReessaBuckels Sunday, 17 May 2015 After a big run leading into its first-quarter earnings report, shares of Vivint Solar fell 5 percent last week after posting disappointing earnings. Despite the Street's reaction, however, CEO Greg Butterfield says he's excited about the company's move into the commercial solar business. The solar installer reported a [...]
David Roberts 4/28/2015 I plan to write a great deal about the short-term prospects for clean energy, both economic and political, but I want to begin life here at Vox with an imaginative exercise, a bit of musing about what energy might look like in the future — not 10 or 20 years from now, [...]
Last year was a lull for commercial solar compared to other sectors. It won’t always be that way. Mike Munsell April 1, 2015 In 2014, the U.S. commercial market segment was surpassed by the residential segment for the first time in decades. According to the most recent U.S. Solar Market Insight report, the commercial segment [...]
