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New Jersey’s Rise to Prominence in Solar Energy
Jersey: the first images that come to mind are industrial smoke stacks, chemical waste, and refineries. So, how can it be then that the Garden State has risen to national prominence for its leadership in solar energy? In an article for Daily Finance,Mark Svenvold suggests it has more to do with old fashion policy changeand [...]
Massachusetts approves solar power ownership by utilities
The state Department of Public Utilities approved a proposal by Western Massachusetts Electric Company to build a 6MW solar installation to generate power for commercial and residential customers. Regulators say the utility will have its project fully on line by the end of 2012. DPU says it also is considering solar programs submitted by National [...]
Growing renewables by deregulating utilities
A utility substation, the final stop between supply and demand. Thequestion of whether or not to open up wholesale electricity markets tononutilities is an important one for the renewable energy sector. Currently, there are three components to our electricity markets; poweris generated, transmitted, and distributed. In the past, allthree of these processes were managed by large, [...]
Are California Solar Subsidies A Victim Of Their Own Success?
Ever since the inception of its highly successful $3.3 billion solarsubsidy program, California has been continually touted by solar powerenthusiasts—ourselves included—as the model state for renewable energyadoption in the United States. As the LA Timesreports this week, however, not everything is coming up roses in solarcountry. Due to the overwhelming success of the program, the [...]
Are There Enough Believers In Energy Efifciency?
The CEOs of Duke Energy andSan Diego Gas & Electric say not enough is done to promote energyefficiency despites a lot of discussion between policy makers and theutility industry. Lawmakersand utilities have talked a lot about how much they love energyefficiency measures – technologies and programs to encourage consumersto conserve, particularly during peak hours. But [...]
Solar and utility profits: the great debate
Two bills that would improve the affordability and accessibility of solar in California have met with oppostionfrom an unexpected quarter: Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), autility company that has previously been a champion of solar within thestate. The utility, in fact, manages the impressive and complicatedstate-wide California Solar Initiative solar PV rebate program.Everyone knew the [...]
GridPoint releases GridPoint Platform 3.0
GridPoint Inc., a leading smart grid company, has released GridPointPlatform 3.0, a standards-based open platform that provides utilitieswith an intelligent network to manage and control distributed energyresources. GridPoint Platform 3.0 enables utilities to offerconsumers online energy programs, delivers advanced demand responseprograms based on consumer preferences, grid status, real-time marketprices and analytics, and expands the variety [...]
Solar at the heart of utility corporate strategy!
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Solar at the Heart of Utility Corporate Strategy" report to its offering. Thedevelopment of solar power is proceeding at a strong pace, yetnecessary technological breakthroughs must now come from solarcomponent manufacturers for the sector to undergo exponential growth.As the technology draws near grid parity, involvement from [...]
SEPA Names Top 10 Solar Utilities
CA utilities rank 1, 2, 3 and 9 TheSolar Electric Power Association (SEPA) released its second annual "TopTen Utility Solar Integration Rankings" based on data through 2008.U.S. utilities were ranked according to installed solar capacity incategories including customer-side of the meter (net metering);utility-side of the meter; solar capacity per customer and more. Asexpected, California held [...]