Residential Solar Power News
In the wake of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear incident, rumors have surfaced that China – the world’s leading exporter of solar photovoltaic (PV) products – will double its PV capacity. The ramp-up, from 5 gigawatts (GW) in 2010 to 10 GW by 2015, recognizes some harsh realities in the electricity generation sector; namely, that nuclear [...]
Thanks to various reports coming out of Texas, we have unearthed another clean energy Grinch. This one is El Paso Electric, which in June of 2010 changed its rate for buying energy from installed residential solar energy systems. That rate, which is set at 12 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for most of the utility’s service [...]
The people behind the technology are Highview Power Storage engineers, and thanks to their know-how, storing energy from a utility-scale solar energy system or wind farm may be as simple as converting that energy into liquid air. At least, that is what their pilot project aims to do. Under the name cryo-energy systems, it also [...]