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Oak Park, IL Microgrid Project Moving Forward
I posted back in 2013, here and here, about the pioneering project to turn more than 100 homes in Oak Park, IL into a resilient microgrid. The project is moving forward as you can see from this link....
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Karl Cates – The Other War: Underreported but Not Insignificant
Karl Cates has an excellent piece over at the IEEFA blog that will give you a good look at how decentralized solar power is under attack by the electrical industry around the US. Cates also describes...
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Kenya’s M’KOPA Pioneers Decentralized Power
Kenya is on the leading edge of decentralized solar power. M’KOPA provides a 4 watt solar panel, three LED lights, a DC radio and a cell phone charger, all in a box. The kit costs about $200. The...
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Nigeria – One of Africa’s Most Prosperous Countries Has Collapsing...
This article from yesterday’s New York Times is a good companion piece to my recent post about Kenya’s M’KOPA. Nigeria, the subject of the Times article, is more than 2000 miles from Kenya, but both...
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Solar Economics Picking Up Momentum in US
A recent study calculates that home solar power generation is now cheaper than centralized power in 42 of the 50 largest cities in the US. “Right now, buying an average-sized, fully-financed solar PV...
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Gov. Tomblin Signs HB 2001 Into Law
Gov. Tomblin signed HB 2001 into law today. The bill repealed the Alternative and Renewable Energy Act of 2009 and replaced it with a statute titled “Net Metering of Customer-Generators,” preserving...
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Electric Industry’s War on Solar Comes to WV
In the fight over preserving net metering, the electric industry’s war on solar, declared in 2013 by the Edison Electric Institute, has come to the WV Legislature. The war has come in the form of two...
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HB2201 Now on Gov. Tomblin’s Desk: Veto Needed
HB2201 is back on Gov. Tomblin’s desk. He has until Saturday to veto it. He needs to veto HB2201 a second time. HB2201 is completely unnecessary, because net metering was protected in HB2001, and...
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And FirstEnergy Shows Its Hand on HB2201
Today, The State Journal published energy reporter Sarah Tincher’s story on the differing views of HB2201. In her story, she quoted FirstEnergy PR guy, and our old friend, as follows: “FirstEnergy is...
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Hawaii Is a “Postcard from the Future”
Today, the New York Times published a good look at how Hawaii’s residential solar power industry, the most advanced in the US, is forcing obsolete power companies to change, and how those power...
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