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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Jan 10, 20191 min read
Ten Predictions for Rooftop Solar and Storage in 2019
With the solar industry chaos of 2018 behind us, many of us are looking toward more predictable growth from 2019…at least until the...
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...
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....
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...
Nov 27, 20182 min read
Avoiding a Global Warming Disaster
The bad news about global warming continues unabated. This fall the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (fondly...
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...
Nov 14, 20182 min read
High Electric Bill? - Consider These Money Saving Tips
People complain about their high electric bill almost as often as they complain about the price of gas. And for two good reasons. First,...
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...
Nov 1, 20182 min read
Protecting Your Rights to Go Solar with Dave Rosenfeld
We take it for granted that you can install solar on your home or business anytime, just as you can make any other energy saving...
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...
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...
Oct 1, 20182 min read
Cleaning Solar Panels
When a business or homeowner gets a new rooftop solar installation, the second question they always ask is “how often do I need to clean...
Sep 19, 20182 min read
The Commercial Solar Opportunity
There are there are three market segment for solar in the U.S.: residential, utility and commercial. Based on some rough math, in 2018 we...
Sep 10, 20182 min read
Climate Change - Time to Start Panicking
These days you can’t watch TV, read a news story or listen to the radio without seeing catastrophic fires, hurricanes, and high...
Sep 4, 20181 min read
Solar Monitoring - the Most Common Solar Problem
This week’s Energy Show is for solar power customers, contractors and inverter manufacturers who appreciate the need for reliable solar...
Aug 27, 20182 min read
Recycling Solar Panels with Sam Vanderhoof
On this week’s Energy Show were talking about old solar panels. Specifically, what do you do with them? Solar panels last 30 years or...
Aug 21, 20182 min read
Real World Solar Economics with Tom Beach
Great solar policy is just as important as great solar technology. Obviously we need the technologies for these products — but we also...
Aug 15, 20182 min read
There is a New Utility in Town - Silicon Valley Clean Energy
The electric utility industry is undergoing rapid change. There used to be two types of utilities: investor owned utilities (IOUs, such...
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,...
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