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Sustainable Cities: Challenges and Opportunities in Japan
Thought leaders from across Japan’s energy sector gathered in Tokyo last week to discuss the role energy will play in adapting the country’s cities to a challenging environment of aging and declining...
View Article4 Questions About New Caledonia’s Planned Heart-Shaped Solar Field
Last week a solar power company based in Australia announced plans to build the world’s first heart-shaped solar field in New Caledonia, a French island in the South Pacific that currently gets most of...
View ArticleSome See Garbage, Others See an Opportunity: Installing Solar on Landfills
by Laurie Guevara-Stone Green Mountain Power just broke ground on a 2 megawatt photovoltaic (PV) plant in Rutland, Vermont. While some other large PV systems planned for the area have met with strong...
View ArticleU.S.-China Solar Fight Lurches Forward
If last week’s news that the U.S. Department of Commerce was imposing new duties on Chinese solar imports left you with a bad case of déjà vu, or at least wondering if the story would ever end, that’s...
View ArticleSolar Roadways and No-New-Impact Energy Development
You’ve probably seen or heard something about solar roadways, or as one promotional video puts it, “solar freakin’ roadways!” The bold idea to turn roads into solar generation infrastructure has...
View ArticleIEA Sees Dire Need for More Clean Energy, Efficiency Investment
The Obama administration’s proposed new rules on power plant carbon emissions have been cause for celebration among U.S. climate-change activists, many of whom believe the policy sets the stage for a...
View ArticleCan China Help Boost U.S. Clean Energy Investment?
Zero percent: That’s the U.S. clean energy investment growth rate over the past five years, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. It might be a distressing sign in the face of the climate-change...
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Sunshine Cinema: Traveling Solar-Powered Theater Aims to Provide Inspiration...
Working in various areas of Southern Africa, we have met incredible people. One of them is Lloyd Maanyina, the star of our short film, Amazing Grace, which recently won an award at the D.C....
View ArticleFight Over Solar in Bridgeport: Two Types of Environmentalism Collide
Late Monday night, the Parks Commission in the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut voted to approve the placement of a solar-panel array atop an old, disused landfill. The project, which will consist of...
View ArticleU.S. Solar Power Surges Ahead in New Report, But Tax Credit Battle Looms
Thanks to a record year in 2013, the solar industry installed more photovoltaic power over a period of 18 months than it did in the preceding 30 years. It’s a startling fact, and it captures the flavor...
View ArticleWhy You Don’t Need Fossil Fuel to Fight Poverty. (Clean Energy Does it Better.)
Last year President Obama launched Power Africa, an initiative to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than two-thirds of the population is without electricity. In a parallel move,...
View ArticleTime to Break Free of Net-Metering; We Need a “FIT” Policy for Renewable...
Maybe the electric utilities are right, for a change. Maybe net-metering—the ability to run your kilowatt-hour meter backwards, with solar panels on your roof or a windmill in your backyard–is not the...
View ArticleAre Those Solar Panels Facing the Wrong Direction?
Conventional wisdom says that if you put solar panels on your roof in the Northern Hemisphere, you should point them within 30 degrees of true south to generate the most energy in the course of a year....
View ArticleSolar Researchers Dig Deeper Into Snow Issue
Our recent story on a net-zero town hall in Upstate New York prompted a question about what impact snow might have on the solar panels that are installed, at a slight angle, on the building’s flat...
View ArticleSolar ‘Gardens’ Let Communities Share Renewable Power
In northern New Mexico the sun shines nearly every day of the year. If solar energy is going to be viable anywhere, it will be here—and a small electric cooperative in historic Taos is taking...
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Seven of the Greatest Solar Stories Over the Millennia
By John Perlin Many people believe that solar energy is a twentieth century phenomenon, untried and untested. But I discovered through writing my new book Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar...
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Shedding Light in the Night: How Solar Energy and Mobile Charging Improves...
In this installment of Digital Diversity, Gwen Kidera – Project Associate at S3IDF (Small Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund) – explains how their non-profit organisation provides...
View ArticleKosovo is a Chance for World Bank, Obama to Show Global Leadership on Climate...
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s now famous comment, “Never let a serious crisis to go to waste,” could not have been more true of Hurricane Sandy, which was a harbinger of the costly...
View ArticleWith a New Look, French Teams Take Top Prizes in Shell Eco-marathon Europe
For several years running, French engineering students from two neighboring Loire Valley schools, Polytech Nantes and La Joliverie, have shared engineering and effort to build rocket-shaped vehicles...
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Purdue Solar Racing Seeks to Boost Sun Intensity
Purdue University students prepare their solar car for Shell Eco-marathon. Photo courtesy of Shell Eco-marathon. Zack Lapetina of Purdue University explains how the Purdue Solar Racing team uses...
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