News & Articles on Solar Energy
While I have primarily worked with wind energy, I have long been a proponent of renewable energy in the broadest sense. This includes solar energy. My work in Canada, especially Ontario, stressed inclusion of solar energy because it had been previously overlooked. At one time Ontario was one of the leading jurisdictions in North America developing solar photovoltaics due in part to the programs I and others pushed. The political winds changed and these policies were abandoned and with it Ontario’s progress toward a renewable energy future.
Madison County Indiana gives OK for $12 million solar park
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The Indiana Municipal Power Agency plans to invest up to $12 million for the installation of 30,000 solar panels. The electricity produced would be the equivalent of what’s needed to power 1,200 homes.
Higher Penetration of Wind Energy in Ontario than in California
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Paul Gipe
The Canadian province of Ontario generated a higher percentage of its electricity with wind energy than California in 2015.
Indian Solar tariff crashes below grid power cost
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State guarantee helps private firm bid Rs 3.3 a unit for Madhya Pradesh plant.
Solar provides 4.3% of Japan’s electricity during 2016
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Christian Roselund
Japan’s Renewable Energy Institute has published data on renewable energy’s contribution to the nation’s energy mix, using data from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The METI data shows solar PV rising to 4.3% of electricity production over the course of 2016, a dramatic increase from 2015, when PV represented only 2.7% of production.
French solar roads – silly walks
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Craig Morris
France’s environmental minister Ségolène Royale is rolling out 1,000 kilometers of a technology that will both be bad solar and bad road.
Solar can already generate more energy than oil, says major scientific review
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Nafeez Ahmed
For every unit of energy invested, solar can now generate the same if not more energy than oil and gas.
Re-assessment of net energy production and greenhouse gas emissions avoidance after 40 years of photovoltaics development
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Atse Louwen, Wilfried G. J. H. M. Van Sark, André P. C. Faaij
As a result, we show a break-even between the cumulative disadvantages and benefits of photovoltaics, for both energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, occurs between 1997 and 2018, depending on photovoltaic performance and model uncertainties.
Why Minnesota’s Community Solar Program is the Best
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John Farrell
Why? Because there 10 times more community solar projects in the queue—400 megawatts—in Minnesota than have been built in the history of community solar in the United States (40 megawatts).
Solar Charging an Electric Vehicle—on the Road
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Paul Gipe
John Rowell likes to push boundaries. Rowell, the man behind EVSEadapters.com pushed his Nissan Leaf, a mass-market electric vehicle (EV), to the end of Mineral King National Park and had to coast back down to the San Joaquin Valley to regain enough charge to make it home. That’s how I came to know him.
How the sun can heat up your bank account
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Installing solar panels has been paying off for these Ontario homeowners.
