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RECAP: Solar Market Insight 2012 “Google Hangout”
The Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA)’s and GTM Research’s “Google Hangout” on their new Solar Market Insight 2012 report just ended, and it was highly informative. If you missed it, here’s a quick recap. According to SEIA, “2012 was a historic and busy year for the U.S. solar energy industry,” in which PV installations “grew [...]
Secretary Chu Discusses The State of U.S Solar
Last Friday (Feb. 22) outgoing Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu hosted a Google+ Hangout along with a host of solar experts and discussed the progress that solar has made in the past few years. Particularly regarding the progress that the U.S. has made on reducing the costs of solar power and the trajectory the [...]
The Princeton Satellite Systems’ SunStation EV Charging Station
Solar EV charging stations are hardly new – as regular readers of SolarChargedDriving.Com surely know. But every now and then something comparatively new comes along in the world of solar EV charging. Now is one of those times, at least according to Princeton Satellite Systems, which claims it will soon be producing “the first 100 [...]
Obama Discusses Climate Change with College Students
The Democratic National Convention officially kicks off tomorrow in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event will be three days of political theatre, as the party officially announces Barack Obama as the Democratic Presidential nominee. But while the state of the economy has very much overshadowed the campaign rhetoric, many American voters are anxious to hear what [...]
U.S. Carbon Tax Talk on the Rebound
It might only apply to industry emissions and nary a Republican would dare admit to seriously considering it, but talk of a possible carbon tax is making the rounds in political Washington and elsewhere. Think about it. A carbon tax does not lack for support among mainstream energy and fiscal policy experts; it has drawn [...]
Interview: Tex Wilkins Discusses CSP Industry
Last week, we interviewed Belen Gallego, Founder & Director at CSP Today and PV Insider, in conjunction with the CSP Today 6th Concentrated Solar Thermal Power USA ConferenceGallego’s putting on in Las Vegas this Wednesday and Thursday (June 27-28). Today, with the conference starting in just 48 hours, we present our interview with Frank “Tex” Wilkins, Executive [...]
U.S Renewable Energy Policy Discussed at WREF
Closing the World Renewable Energy Forum (WREF) last week was a panel led by former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter (D) discussing how state policies in the U.S. are leading the country’s charge for adding solar into the grid. The panel was comprised of energy policy experts from Colorado, Maryland and Washington state. Each state has [...]
12 Experts Discuss Energy Efficiency
Using state-of-art video technology, 12 energy experts met simultaneously in London, Washington DC and São Paulo to discuss the technological, behavioral and policy solutions to help the world achieve long-term energy goals. The event was called Global Energy Conversation and it attracted the participation of 1,300 people worldwide. It was promoted by the Economist’s Intelligence [...]
The Renewable Energy Discussion — Patterns Emerge
When I get up every morning, I take my cup of coffee, sit down, andread the news in the energy sector – often including a few comments from bloggers. As one might expect, there are patterns that develop, acommon one of which is exemplified below here: the argument thatfree-market economics has determined that fossil fuels [...]