Thursday Plenary: Climate and Resiliency!
At today’s plenary session, we were thankful to have the ability to Skype with Bill McKibben for the session, as he was unable to join us in Baltimore. Bill McKibben is a radical grassroots activist, author, and president/co-founder of 350.org. He is a fantastic speaker and we were lucky to have the opportunity of listening [...]
Extreme Weather- Planning: Creating the Framework for Resiliency
As a nation, we have experienced a number of extreme weather catastrophes in recent years. We have continuously been able to connect the extremity of these events with our need to address climate change in order to prepare in the best way possible for the next major disaster. Extreme Weather is a prominent theme at [...]
SREC Market Uncovered- East Coast Update
This morning started with a session serving as an update on the SREC market in the east coast states. Our first panelist was Michael Judge, an associate RPS/APS program manager with the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Program. Michael discussed the solar development strategies in Massachusetts and the outlined qualifications for eligibility. A unique aspect [...]
Solar Forecasting I
Solar Forecasting I, the first of two solar forecasting sessions in the Resource Application and Integration track, took place today here at SOLAR 2013. Forecasting for both solar and wind is a very crucial contributor to solar PV systems, and newly advanced technologies are being tested and used today. John “Skip” Dise, product manager at Clean [...]
Hard Challenges: Soft Costs
If you’ve ever wondered why it costs twice as much to install a PV system in the US as Germany, the answer is red tape and bureaucracy, known in the industry as “soft costs” or “balance of system (BoS)” costs. While solar hardware prices continue to plummet, soft costs – which include customer acquisition or [...]
SOLAR 2013: NREL Tool Estimates Economic Impacts of RE
SOLAR 2013 kicked off this morning in Baltimore with nine tracks of parallel sessions that included a forum about the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s JEDI models. JEDI, which stands for Jobs and Economic Development Impact, is a series of free online calculators for estimating employment and other impacts that result from investment in new power generation or fuel production.
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