Improving Solar

Mar 14, 20222 min read

Streamlining Solar Design with Aurora Solar

The Energy Show · Streamlining Solar Design and Installation with Aurora Your friendly local solar contractor has to contend with two...

Jan 7, 20201 min read

SolarEdge-Perspective for a Distributed Grid

People talk about solar panels and batteries a lot (at least the people I talk to). The reasons are that solar panels are conspicuous on...

Aug 7, 20181 min read

Upgrading Your Solar System

Over a million buildings in the U.S. have rooftop solar. These systems are extremely reliable: solar panels are guaranteed for 25 years,...

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...

Nov 21, 20171 min read

Inovateus Solar with T. J. Kanczuzewski

The “climate” for solar is most favorable when there are high electric rates and incentives. For these reasons the PV industry grew...

Sep 11, 20171 min read

Designing a Reliable Electric Grid

Over the past few months we’ve experienced a solar eclipse, several devastating hurricanes, another under-construction nuclear plant...

Sep 5, 20172 min read

Which solar panels are best?

Here’s a solar industry secret: all solar panels generate the same amount of electricity on a per watt basis. In other words, twenty 300...

Aug 20, 20172 min read

The Solar Eclipse Is Increasing Solar Prices

Millions of Americans were using cereal boxes, telescopes, and flimsy plastic solar viewing glasses to witness the Solar Eclipse on...

Aug 13, 20171 min read

SolarRoofHook with Rick Gentry

With much higher volume manufacturing, prices for solar panels have come down tremendously over the past 20 years — from about $1,000...

Aug 1, 20172 min read

LG Battery Storage with Linh Tran

20 years ago the problem with rooftop solar was that customers needed a large collection of lead acid batteries to store their daytime...

Jun 5, 20171 min read

Tesla Solar Roof Tiles – Customer and Installer Perspectives

There’s no doubt in my mind that the home of the future will be solar powered. Intuitively it would be great if the roofing material...

May 29, 20171 min read

The Solar Coaster

I think Charles Dickens was describing the Solar Coaster in his introduction to “A Tale of Two Cities”: It was the best of times, it was...

May 22, 20172 min read

Key Factors for Long Term Solar Satisfaction

Many industries have boom and bust cycles as manufacturers try to adjust supply to customer demand. These challenges are accentuated in...

Mar 13, 20172 min read

Coal, Nuclear and Oil are Losing Steam - Can They Compete?

Our sources of electrical power are quickly shifting. In 2016 there was 26 gigawatts of new electrical-utility capacity added in the U.S....

Mar 7, 20171 min read

Future Rooftop Solar Costs - Getting to $2.50/watt

The solar industry is one of our most obvious success stories. Our industry directly employs 261,000 people. We generate energy that is...

Dec 26, 20161 min read

Solpad with Chris Estes

In 2016, more solar generating capacity was installed than any other fuel source. Because of the low cost of solar-generated electricity,...

Dec 5, 20161 min read

Concentrating Solar Power with Fred Morse

As technology advances, our favorite science-fiction and spy-thrillers become both laughably more unrealistic and eerily based on truth....

Nov 20, 20162 min read

Costs and Savings for Tesla's Solar Shingles

Tesla’s recently announced solar shingles are a great looking and potentially ground-breaking Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV)...

Nov 7, 20162 min read

Solar Inverters, More Than AC-DC

With so many options for solar inverters, choosing the right one for your home or business can get a little overwhelming. In the way of...

Sep 5, 20166 min read

An Urgent Letter to the Solar Industry and our Customers from Jigar Shah and Barry Cinnamon

We don’t call it the “Solar Coaster” for nothing. U.S. solar installations will hit 16 GW in 2016. These solar installations are having a...