Via Mens Journal, a report on Elon Musk’s vision of the future of solar: Elon Musk is convinced that humanity won’t need to make use of his SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets to flee this warming planet if we just do one thing: embrace solar energy. This weekend, from the Tesla headquarters, Musk made an announcement […]
Read more »Via Bloomberg, commentary on the slowing growth of rooftop solar in the United States: Rooftop solar, which has surged more than 1,000 percent since 2010, will barely grow at all next year. Residential installations are expected to increase by 21 percent this year, but in 2017 the figure will inch upward by about 0.3 percent. […]
Read more »Courtesy of GreenBiz, a report on Prologis, a $65 billion real estate investment trust that controls 149 megawatts of solar generating capacity atop its global portfolio of warehouses and industrial facilities: If we asked you to name the three U.S. companies with the largest corporate solar footprints, there’s a pretty strong chance that you would get at least […]
Read more »Via NBC News, a report on Elon Musk’s vision for rooftops: If Elon Musk has his way, a roof entirely made of solar-gathering materials could one day be used to power homes. Musk, who is chairman of the clean energy company SolarCity, explained how a complete solar roof could play a “fundamental part of achieving […]
Read more »Via Clean Technica, a report on San Francisco’s new rooftop solar law: The City of San Francisco has just become the first major US city to require new buildings to be constructed with solar panels or solar thermal water heaters. If that sounds like putting the cart before the horse in terms of building design, […]
Read more »Via Vox, a look at the promise of shared solar: To date, solar power has mostly been available to utilities (as big power plants) or individual home and business owners (as rooftop panels). Left out has been … well, everyone else, those of us who are not utility executives and do not have the money, […]
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