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SEIA Has California Solar’s Back
The good folks over at the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) are all too aware of the threat facing the solar industry from utility attacks and they are fighting back – with facts about the industry and its importance. Here’s our take. Nowhere is the solar industry more vital than right here in California. Indeed, [...]
Solar Industry: 2012 Growth Borderline Ridiculous
Solar is continuing to become a more important part of the U.S.’s energy mix as it continues to grow at a rapid pace—in fact the amount of solar added online in the U.S. in 2012 was 76 percent higher than in 2011, the previous record holder. That’s according to the GTM Research and the Solar [...]
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 [...]
Solar Industry Standards: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
To bring next-generation pv to market in a way that’s standardized both for manufacturers and end-users, SEMI, a semiconductor manufacturers industry organization has partnered with the U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC), a DOE SunShot Initiative program focussed on reducing the costs PV. The two organizations announced Jan. 29 a memorandum of understanding to more directly [...]
The Solar Industry is on a Tear
The Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA), along with GTM Research, today released the Q3 U.S. Solar Market Insight Report., and the record-breaking news keeps on growing. It is remarkable how in a world of so much financial and employment disappointment, the solar industry continues to prevail quarter after quarter, surging 44 percent from this time [...]
Georgia Power to Triple Solar Capacity
Georgia Power filed a request with the Public Service Commission (PSC) today in order to expand its solar energy capacity between now and 2015. The utility is looking to triple the amount of solar from 61 MW annually to 210 MW over a three-year period. This is an abrupt shift from Georgia Power’s previous position [...]
Support the 10 Million Solar Roofs Act
Would you like to see 10 million American rooftops with solar on them? Of course you would! The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is asking for our help to encourage Senate to vote on a very important piece of legislation. If your company supports the goal of reducing permitting times and costs, please consider adding [...]
Solar Industry Commits to Environmental Responsibility
While solar offers clean renewable energy, that doesn’t mean making PV has always been an entirely environmentally or socially responsible business. To address the issue, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and a growing number of solar companies are working to develop the voluntary Solar Industry Commitment to Environmental & Social Responsibility, which will ensure [...]
My Open Letter to Fox & Friends
Those silly kids over at Fox & Friends really went on a rant against solar the other day and capped it off by asserting that the German solar industry does so much better than ours here in the U.S. because, after all, Germany gets so much more sun that we do in the States. Here’s [...]