As a parent, you want to do everything you can to protect your child. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has brought with it new challenges for families across the globe. The ways parents can support their kids Be calm and proactive Parents should have a calm, proactive conversation with their children about the disease (COVID-19), and [...]
Solar O&M is an integral part of any solar PV system. The rooftop plant requires less day to day maintenance but its still important to ensure that the system is well maintained and is performing at an optimum level. According to Solar Power World, "A well-maintained solar installation can actually perform 10 to 30% better [...]
COVID-19 outbreak which started from China, has infected more than 550,000 people. Its spread has left businesses around the world counting costs. The majority of the U.S. and the world’s solar panel production hails from China. For weeks no one was going to work, but now slowly workers are returning. Manufacturers are not operating at full [...]
The tariffs imposed by Trump are upsetting the economic equilibrium and, combined with the Iran oil banking sanctions, could triggger a recession. Beijing, June 24 (AFP) Jun 24, 2018 China's central bank announced last Sunday it would reduce the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for most banks by 50 basis points to free up funding for [...]
The economics of solar conversion are driven by government incentives. While the price of modules keeps dropping and reaching parity with grid electricity so that incentives will not matter much longer, the fact is that conversion is still subsidized, and that we can calculate exactly how much less a US system will save today as [...]
With 1.3 billion people, India is the world’s third largest consumer of electricity. 450 million ceiling fans are running and 40 million sold each year. Indians use 8x as much electricity as they did fifty years ago. Demand for power is growing at the same rate as in France and Germany. Source: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/immersive-story/2017/06/29/solar-powers-india-s-clean-energy-revolution India has [...]
Yesterday, the South Lake Tahoe city council voted unanimously to award its first solar project to Staten Solar: its airport. This vote of confidence is the result of months of patient attention, personal dedication, and sunny determination by Staten’s rainmaker, Scott Dubois. The man does not sell, he builds trust and helps his clients reach [...]
It increases over time, not the other way around. Take the case of a mid-sized California business in the Bay area, with revenues of $55MM, paying PG&E $550,000 a year in electricity, 1 percent of sales, for 3MW of power, or 18.3 cents a kWh in 2017. Not unusual for this size customer in PGE [...]
Volume 2 | June 2018
In its just released “US Solar Market Insights” report, SEIA and GTM show that solar grew 13% year over year, but registered a 37% quarter over quarter decrease (last quarter was the largest ever), and that 55% of all new generating capacity added last quarter came from solar, the second quarter solar registered the largest [...]
