Major retailers now started to clean up their shipping pollution. Earlier this week nine global giant retailers, including Amazon.com Inc, IKEA, Unilever, Patagonia, and Inditex, the fast-fashion retailer that owns Zara, announced that they are aiming to switch to zero-carbon vessels to ship their goods by 2040. Joining Amazon and Ikea in the commitment [...]
Solar Energy promises a cleaner and brighter energy future. While operating large scale solar parks, project managers were seen struggling to keep the output max. Mostly harsh and arid environments are become key challenges in getting optimum output from a largescale solar power plant. Alone soiling is one of the greatest impediments to solar [...]
You will be amazed to know that the Sun emits enough power onto earth every second to satisfy the entire human energy demand for complete two hours… at least some studies suggest that! Historically, solar energy harvesting was expensive and comparatively less efficient. However, the improvement over the previous two decades and with technological [...]
In an effort to make the U.S. Clean Energy Infrastructure that, by itself, would rank as one of the most ambitious, President Joe Biden unveiled a sprawling and ambitious infrastructure plan. Apart from big infrastructure fixes, initiatives like lower the country's greenhouse gas emissions, providing better Internet connections, increase the quality of water, and [...]
In what may now look like a signature Trump reversal, the Section 301 tariffs targeting $150 B in Chinese goods have been placed on hold. This hold relates to the Intellectual Property challenge raised by the administration, it is not about the steel and aluminum Tariffs. The tariffs placed on hold are separate from the [...]
Recently released SEIA Solar Means Business Report shows 2017 was the third largest year on record for new installations with 325MW deployed by large corporations. 5 of the top 25 corporate users were national retail chains led by Target which added over 40 MW of solar to its stores. Amazon placed third for new installations [...]
The Great Transition into an electrified economy is underway, but proceeding faster in some states than others. And no movement, backward or forward, takes place in this industry without the input of expert lobbyists. Every state has its own energy regulations, its own economic goals, its own priorities. The US energy map is a quilt [...]
Decentralization Strategies, a three part series Part One: Community Solar Part Two: Corporate Creativity The fastest growing segment of the US solar industry in 2017 was community solar. According to a Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) report based on cooperative procurement in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, community solar gardens are large enough (0.5Mw to 5MW) [...]
The Great Transition out of fossil fuels is accelerating with China and India leading the way in solar and with Europe considered best prepared to overcome challenges imposed by operating legacy infrastructure. This according to the World Economic Forum’s Effective Energy Transition report, based on analytical support from McKinsey & Co who assessed the energy [...]
