by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Industry News
The easy answer? Yes. Now, send me a deposit so I can start engineering. Right? The hard answer? Still yes for many, but also a “no” for some. We need to figure out if that is actually the case. And that is what I do for a living. I’ll start with an...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Industry News
The business sector is going solar big time. In the case of Ikea – the biggest. Commercial solar power makes good financial sense – it makes good sense because you will save on your energy costs, but it also makes good sense because your customers give a...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Industry News
The Navy announced Thursday that it will buy power from a sprawling solar farm in the Arizona desert to help power 14 military installations in California, in the largest renewable energy purchase by the U.S. government to date. San Diego-based Sempra Energy expects...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Industry News
Phil Cavallo surveys a large plot of land off MacArthur Drive in Bourne, not far from the Bourne Bridge. Bulldozers hum in the background, clearing the 7-acre tract, which, by mid-October, will be covered with 4,300 solar panels. This is the future home of the Bourne...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Industry News
What would a Trump presidency mean to the US solar industry? Since Solar Tribune published the “Solar Scorecard” of 2016 presidential contenders in January, The Republican field has grown even larger, while the field has narrowed on the Democrat’s side of the race. In...
by John Fitzgerald Weaver | Industry News
In the past five years, rooftop solar has revealed the limitations of the archaic electric utility business model, as customers have found generating their own power more cost effective than taking 100% of their energy from the incumbent monopoly. For years, utilities...
