The International Battery and Energy Storage Alliance has Recently been Established!
The International Battery and Energy Storage Alliance (IBESA) has recently been formed to help facilitate collaboration between solar, electrical energy storage, and smart grid technologies companies. IBESA was created by the International PV Equipment Association (IPVEA) and solar research group EuPD to represent the emerging solar storage sector. This alliance will help give access to market [...]
SOLAR 2013: What We can Learn from the Germans
There are many things we can learn from the Germany, as the country has become a world leader in renewable energy in just a few short years. The German government has made it a point to decentralize power generation, so over half the country’s clean power is owned by individuals or farmers, providing political support [...]
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 [...]
Lawrence Berkeley Revises German Solar Cost Calculation
Why Americans Pay 80% More for PV In a study supported by the Department of Energy’s SunShot program, the Lawrence Berkeley Lab has revised its assessment of why solar installations are cheaper in Germany than in the United States. It’s not because labor rates are lower; instead, standard practices mean fewer labor hours on each [...]
Offshore Wind Power Expected To Grow Ten Times by 2020!
GlobalData’s latest report on offshore wind power expects the global market to grow immensely by the end of the decade, with the UK as a leader in the industry.
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