Category Archives: Commercial solar

Don’t Be Fooled: Solar is Hot

There’s a lot of confusion about the promise of clean energy jobs, and the picture only got murkier two weeks ago with the bankruptcy of Solyndra, a start-up US solar equipment manufacturer.  Given the funereal coverage of the Solyndra collapse, … Continue reading →

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The little program that could

The Treasury Grant Program (TGP) is a small, little-known component of the 2009 Recovery Act. TGP provides businesses that invest in renewable energy a 30% cash grant  (parallel to the 30% tax credit tax credit individual taxpayers get when they … Continue reading →

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Lost in transmission

Americans like big things–big cars, big houses, Big Macs.  And the conventional wisdom around electricity transmission is that we have to spend trillions of dollars revamping the national grid so that it can carry intermittent wind and solar energy more … Continue reading →

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Got kids? Get a solar school!

With public school budgets being cut to the bone, this may seem like an unlikely time for school districts to start installing solar PV systems.  But a number of new incentives make this the ideal time for schools to solarize. … Continue reading →

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