Solar Energy

40% Of U.S. Electricity Could Come From Rooftop Solar

April 18, 2016 S.E. Smith, www.care2.com Create! Electricity, Solar Energy

By S.E. Smith for Care 2 - With rooftop solar arrays becoming more common, the Department of Energy decided to do some exploring to quantify exactly how much energy Americans could generate if they installed photovoltaic systems efficiently and extensively. What they found was startling: The country could meet 39 percent of its energy needs through rooftop photovoltaics, and, surprisingly, small structures like private homes are likely to return the best results.

Duke Energy Versus Solar Energy

March 13, 2016 Alex Kotch, www.desmogblog.com Resist! Climate Change, Democracy, Duke Energy, Solar Energy

By Alex Kotch of DeSmog Blog. Around the nation, big utility companies are successfully lobbying lawmakers and regulators to restrict individual and corporate access to solar power, denying people significant savings on electricity bills and the opportunity to take part in the growing green energy economy. In third-party solar financing, a non-utility company installs solar panels on a customer’s property at little or no up-front cost, sometimes selling the solar energy back to the customer at rates typically lower than a utility would charge. Duke Energy, the largest utility in the U.S., has so far succeeded in keeping third-party solar illegal in North Carolina, but conservative and liberal factions alike are trying to change that, in different ways. At least four states—Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma and North Carolina—currently ban third-party sales of solar energy.

Newsletter: The Times Are A-Changing

March 12, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter 2016 Elections, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change, Drug War, Education, Nuclear Power, Solar Energy, Trade, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. Sometimes, when in the midst of transformational change, it is difficult to recognize that it is happening. We are in a transformational moment now. The new political culture that erupted with the occupy movement in 2011, but which has roots going back decades, and its evolution into activism on key fronts of struggle such as wages, racism, trade, militarism, capitalism and other issues, has grown to be so impactful that it is fracturing the two corporate political parties. A lot of change is occurring on many fronts. That should encourage all of us to keep building the movement of movements so we can create the transformation we need.

Protests Against Duke Energy Blocking Solar Energy in NC

March 9, 2016 Alex Kotch, www.desmogblog.com Resist! Duke Energy, North Carolina, Protests, Solar Energy

By Alex Kotch for Desmog - Around the nation, big utility companies are successfully lobbying lawmakers and regulators to restrict individual and corporate access to solar power, denying people significant savings on electricity bills and the opportunity to take part in the growing green energy economy. In third-party solar financing, a non-utility company installs solar panels on a customer’s property at little or no up-front cost, sometimes selling the solar energy back to the customer at rates typically lower than a utility would charge.

Red Lake Band to Go Fully Solar Within Five Years

February 27, 2016 Michael Meuers, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Create! First Nations, Indigenous Peoples, Solar Energy

By Michael Meuers for Indian Country Today Media Network - The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians has signed a formal agreement with the Winkelman Building Corp. and Innovative Power Systems Inc. to design, engineer, procure, construct and manage solar energy projects for the three Red Lake casinos and various other tribal government buildings. Red Lake will install 15 megawatts—equal to 15 million watts—worth of solar panels across the rooftops of the band’s largest buildings. When they’re done, the panels will generate enough power to light every bulb in the tribe’s three casinos, the tribal college and all government buildings.

World’s Largest Solar Plant In Morocco Has Gone Live

February 22, 2016 Staff, www.answersafrica.com Create! Morocco, Solar Energy

By Staff of Answers Africa - Morocco has activated the world’s largest solar power plant in the Sahara desert, near the city of Ouarzazate. According to Climate Investment Funds (CIF), the plant is capable of powering over one million homes by 2018 and will also reduce carbon emissions by 760,000 tons per year. The plant which is called the Noor-Ouarzazate power complex uses concentrating solar power (CSP) which enables energy to be stored and used for nights and cloudy days.

Newsletter: Why Protests Will Continue To Grow

January 16, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, #FightFor15, Black Lives Matter (BLM), China, Climate Change, COP21, Corporatism, Democracy, Economic inequality, Empire, Environment, FERC, Finance and the Economy, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Iraq, Jobs, militarism, Necessity defense, oligarchy, Poverty, Russia, Solar Energy, Stratfor, Syria, TPP, Trade, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. This week the reason that there are a growing protest movement and growing disenchantment with government was put on display. The divergence between government and reality was thrust in our faces. The entire government came together, Members of Congress, the Cabinet, military leaders, the Supreme Court, Vice President and President (minus the 'selected survivor' in case the Capitol was attacked, the head of Homeland Security) to hear the State of the Union. The choreographed self-praise of people who will spend $5 billion this year of mostly big business money to get re-elected was evident from the moment the door was opened. Hugs and kisses, backslapping all around, required applause as the President approached the podium, more staged applause when he was introduced and then, as if they were trained, dozens of standing ovations on cue – 89 times in a 58-minute speech the President was applauded.

Solar Chased Out Of Sunny Nevada

January 10, 2016 Michael Graham Richard, www.treehugger.com Educate! Climate Change, Corruption, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy

By Michael Graham Richard for Tree Hugger. To drive out solar power companies out of sunny Nevada, you have to do something pretty bad. This is exactly what happened while most of us weren't paying attention, enjoying the holidays (or stressing out, depending...). The Nevada Public Utility Commission (PUC) changed its rules surrounding net metering and increased fees charged to the owners of solar systems (who said the sun was free?): "The base service charge is rising from $12.75 to $17.90 per month [a 40% increase] for southern Nevada solar customers and from $15.25 to $21.09 [a 38.2% increase] for northern Nevada customers. The changes also reduce the amount the utility pays to buy power back from rooftop solar panels, from 11 cents a kilowatt hour to 9 cents [an 18.2% decrease] in southern Nevada and from 12 cents to 10.5 cents [a 12.5% decrease] in the north.

Navajo Nation ‘Goes Green’ With New Solar Plant

January 2, 2016 Mark Richardson, www.nmpoliticalreport.com Create! Indigenous Peoples, Solar Energy

By Mark Richardson for NM Political Report - The Navajo Nation is going green by building its first utility-scale solar farm on tribal property. The facility, to be located on 300 acres near Monument Valley, is expected to generate enough power for 7,700 homes in New Mexico, Arizona and Utah after it is completed in late 2016. Deenise Biscenti, public affairs director for the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, said building the solar plant is part of a long-term strategy to change the way the tribes deliver power. “For the past several years, NTUA has explored renewable-energy resource possibilities,” she said. “This solar farm is our move into that field, to establish a green economy for the Navajo Nation.”

Community Solar Brings Renewable Energy ‘To The Masses’

December 19, 2015 Lynne Peeples, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Climate Change, Solar Energy

By Lynne Peeples for The Huffington Post - Solar panels aren’t just for Arizonans living in sprawling ranch houses anymore. Homeowners who lack adequate roof space or who enjoy the shade of big trees -- even condo owners and renters such as Joe and Vanessa Goldberg of notoriously rainy Seattle -- are now teaming up with their neighbors to buy electricity from shared solar power projects. "Because we rent, we don't really have the option of putting solar on our house," said environmentally conscious Joe, 35, who once made a local move using only bike trailers.

U.S. Solar Market Prepares For Biggest Quarter In History

December 11, 2015 Staff, www.seia.org Create! New Economy, Solar Energy

By Staff of SEIA - BOSTON, Mass. and Washington D.C. – A new report shows 2015 shaping up to be the United States solar market’s best year in history with record-breaking fourth quarter projections. The U.S. installed 1,361 megawatts[i] (MW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in the third quarter of the year. According to GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association’s (SEIA) U.S. Solar Market Insight Report, Q3 2015, this marks the eighth consecutive quarter in which the U.S. has installed more than a gigawatt (GW) of PV capacity.

China Rapidly Expanding Solar, Becoming World Leader

October 28, 2015 Zhang Yuan, www.en.people.cn Create! China, Solar Energy

By Zhang Yuan for People's Daily Online, China’s photovoltaic industry is booming even when the global economy is gloomy. The installed photovoltaic capacity increased 161 percent in the first three quarters year on year. It is predicted that Chinese photovoltaic industry will surge and its cumulative installed capacity will reach 43 million kilowatts. China is likely to replace German to rank first as to photovoltaic application. With the support of related policies, Chinese photovoltaic industry gradually got out of downturn and began to recover in 2015.

Europe Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions To Lowest Recorded

October 22, 2015 Tree Alerts, www.PopularResistance.org Create! Carbon, Climate Change, Europe, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy

By Tree Alerts - Greenhouse gas emissions in Europe are at their lowest level ever recorded, while the EU’s economy continues to expand, a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) reveals. The bloc has already gone past the 20 per cent cuts pledged for 2020, with emissions down 23 per cent on 1990 levels last year, according to the analysis. The EEA report shows that while emissions have plunged, the European economy has grown by 46 per cent. Renewable energy - which now provides over a quarter of European electricity - both cuts emissions and contributes to Europe’s economy. Last year 1.2 million people were working in the renewables industry in Europe, which is a major exporter and has breathed new life into areas across the continent.

California Trying To Make Solar Energy More Accessible

October 8, 2015 Mike Gaworecki, www.desmogblog.com Create! California, Solar Energy

By Mike Gaworecki for DESMOG, The California legislature has sent a bill to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk that aims to extend the benefits of solar energy to communities that often have no access to clean energy technologies. Assembly Bill 693 would create the Multi-Family Affordable Housing Solar Roofs program, which would be authorized to spend $100 million a year for at least 10 years to install solar panels on 210,000 affordable housing units in the Golden State. It’s estimated that beneficiaries of the program would save more than $38 million per year on their electricity bills and receive another $19 million a year in solar tax credits and other benefits, a total of $1.8 billion over the life of the program, according to Al Jazeera America. Other programs already in place in California have led to the deployment of solar in communities across the state that otherwise would have had little access to solar energy.

Solar Power Just Broke Another Record In The U.S.

September 11, 2015 Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Climate Change, Solar Energy

By Lorraine Chow in EcoWatch - When it comes to the country’s energy future, the path is looking very bright—especially on rooftops across the U.S. American homes are going solar at rates higher than ever before, according to a new industry report. GTM Research and Solar Energy Industries Association (or SEIA, the national trade organization for America’s solar energy industry) released its Q2 2015 report showing that the country has exceeded 20 gigawatts of solar electric capacity in the first half of 2015—enough power for 4.6 million homes. This could make 2015 on track for another banner year. So while 2014 already smashed records, it looks like 2015 is poised for even better growth. “The second half of the year should be significantly larger than the first in terms of new deployments,” the report said.

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