The Evolving Auto Industry
Remember the EV1 - GMs experimental foray into electric vehicles? Although the EV1 was a failure in terms of mass market sales, it...
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The Energy Show
Jan 24, 20191 min read
Solar Innovation Lifecycle with Jamey Johnston
According the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) there are about 70 million residential and commercial buildings in the US that are...
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The Energy Show
Jan 9, 20192 min read
Is There a MicroGrid in Your Future
You know what they say: “Video killed the radio star.” Well I’m going out on a limb and adding video to this week’s podcast. But since my...
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The Energy Show
Dec 11, 20182 min read
Manufacturing Solar in the US with Auxin Solar
Attention U.S. Department of Commerce: your well-intentioned efforts to help the U.S. solar panel manufacturing industry are not working....
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The Energy Show
Dec 5, 20182 min read
Flow Batteries with Matt Harper from Avalon
It’s depressing that lithium batteries get almost all of the focus in the energy storage industry. Lithium batteries have a number of...
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The Energy Show
Nov 19, 20182 min read
The Sun Also Rises - At Night With Battery Storage
One of my favorite Hemingway books is “The Sun Also Rises.” It’s about Spain, bull fighting and a group of lost generation friends in...
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The Energy Show
Nov 7, 20181 min read
Utility Power Plant Economics
We have all seen those big power plants outside cities that provide power — historically from coal, oil and nuclear and now more...
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The Energy Show
Oct 24, 20182 min read
Energy Toolbase with Adam Gerza
Solar combined with battery storage seems like magic to many residential and commercial customers. With a million and a half systems...
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The Energy Show
Oct 14, 20182 min read
Fuel Cells Are Making a Comeback
Energy storage is critical to our ability to eliminate the use of fossil fuels. Basically, we need a way to store the abundance of...
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The Energy Show
Jul 31, 20182 min read
Ten Electric Utility Company Myths
Electric utilities got their start in the U.S. in the 1880s. Thomas Edison began transmitting DC power as he literally illuminated the...
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The Energy Show
Jul 24, 20182 min read
California Requires Solar on all New Homes
California continues to lead the country when it comes to clean and inexpensive energy. Here is an example – In May the California Energy...
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The Energy Show
Jul 5, 20182 min read
Planning for an All Electric Future
There is no doubt in my mind that the “All Electric future” is inevitable. The only question is how fast…20 or 50 or 75 years? Electric...
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The Energy Show
Jun 27, 20181 min read
What are the best solar panels?
What are the best solar panels? That’s a question we are asked all the time. When customers look for the “best” solar panels they...
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The Energy Show
May 30, 20182 min read
John Farrell on Why It Costs More For Utilities to Sell Power
For over a hundred years our civilization has been getting electricity from centralized generation. This utility business model relies on...
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The Energy Show
May 3, 20181 min read
Can the Battery Storage Industry Avoid the Same Mistakes as the Solar Industry?
The battery storage industry is roughly where the solar industry was in the early 2000’s. It’s a tiny market now, with fewer than 1,000...
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The Energy Show
Apr 28, 20181 min read
Gigawatt Scale Solar Installations
We often talk about smaller solar power systems on homes or commercial buildings. On this week’s Energy Show we are discussing gigawatt...
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The Energy Show
Apr 10, 20181 min read
What are Microgrids?
We call our power system an electric “grid” because it is composed of a network of wires that move the power around from node to node –...
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The Energy Show
Apr 3, 20181 min read
What Do You Do When Your Solar Inverter Dies?
We’ve been installing rooftop solar panels and solar inverters for almost 20 years. Solar panels are incredibly reliable – guaranteed for...
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The Energy Show
Mar 19, 20181 min read
Solar and Battery Storage System Engineering with Josh Weiner of SepiSolar
Solar and battery storage systems are constructed on-site with components from a number of different manufactures. It’s not as if one...
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The Energy Show
Jan 9, 20182 min read
Commercial Energy Storage with Neil Maguire of Adara Power
For the past 15+ years companies have been installing PV solar systems to reduce their energy costs, measured in kilowatt hours (kwh)....
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