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.
Nuclear Roulette: The Case Against a “Nuclear Renaissance
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Written by award-winning journalist Gar Smith, edited by Ernest Callenbach, with a foreword by leading Japanese anti-nuclear activist, Aileen Mioko Smith, Nuclear Roulette is a rigorously researched and compelling rebuttal to about the viability, sustainability, and safety of nuclear power.
Fly-by of World’s Largest Solar PV Farm in Ontario
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Video of Enbridge’s 80+ MW solar PV plant near Sarnia .
PV Magazine: Photovoltaics – the energy alternative that is immediately available in large and affordable quantities
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Publisher Karl-Heinz Remmers takes aim at those who continue to label photovoltaics as the most expensive renewable energy source – particularly in context of the German renewable landscape. . .
Proposed revised solar PV feed-in tariffs for Ontario in 2012
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Paul Gipe
December 9, 2011 December 16, 2011 edits: Corrected date. Added the expression “indicative” to describe the proposed tariffs. Added further …
CleanTechnica: North American Solar Photovoltaic Market to Double in Q4 2011
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The U.S. is projected to account for 84% of the market this quarter, and Canada (largely Ontario, because of its world-leading feed-in tariff and the “cool” or “contagion” factor), the other 16%. Breaking it down by states and provinces, it would look like this: California: 21%; Ontario: 16%; New Jersey: 11%; and Other U.S. States: 52%.
Solar PV Leads Small Town into Solar Big Leagues
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Paul Gipe
Gainesville Expects 7 MW Solar PV by Year End Florida Town Rivals California in Per Capita Solar
Reuters: Italy solar capacity seen up to 12.5 GW end: 2011
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By now, we are well above 11 gigawatts of installed capacity … probably we will be at 12.0-12.5 gigawatts by …
1000 Solar Rooftops Going solar in the Ottawa area
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It could be the national capital’s new look for the 21st century: A skyline dotted with 1,000 solar rooftops.
Craig Morris: Belgium to phase out nuclear
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Craig Morris
Though it has no government, Belgium has resolved to shut down its nuclear reactors, with the first three to be taken down in 2015 — provided power supply is not endangered.
