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Bringing life-saving power to Puerto Rico
In this interview, Solar Foundation President and Executive Director Andrea Luecke talks about how Solar Saves Lives came together, what the organization is doing now and what it needs.pv magazine:...
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Sunnova begs Congress: You must help Puerto Rico restore power
The island's largest residential solar installer is asking Congress to modify the investment tax credit (ITC) into a cash-grant program, which it says would encourage private investment in the...
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Surviving and thriving in Puerto Rico with solar power and energy storage
In this interview Maximo Solar CEO Maximo Torres talks with pv magazine about the role that solar and energy storage are playing in the recover of Puerto Rico, and what he sees for the future of the...
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Distributed energy, with fewer wires
A SEIA white paper describes the concept of non-wire solutions and how this innovation can boost solar PV and other distributed energy resources.When widespread electricity usage was becoming a...
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How Trump inadvertently proved that solar and wind are the future
The Trump Administration's domestic energy policy has attempted a focus on strategic safety to support coal and nuclear, with zero focus on long term viability or cost, while forgetting that the sun...
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Saving the stadium: how microgrid integration can improve venues’ disaster...
By using real-time weather data and energy management stadiums can better manage their own consumption, as well as sheltering local residents in the event of a natural disaster.What do all truly great...
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How to install solar power strong enough for a hurricane
The 2017 hurricane season gave analysts at the Rocky Mountain Institute a broad dataset of storm-related solar power plant outcomes, from which they have delivered a list failures and specification for...
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California aims beyond 100% clean electricity: negative emissions after 2045
Along with SB100 California Governor Brown has signed an executive order directing the state to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 and net negative greenhouse gas emissions after that.While the headline...
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SunCast: Andrea Luecke and John Berger on the 1-year anniversary of Hurricane...
As part of the collaboration between pv magazine USA and SunCast, we bring you an audio special edition marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria and looking at the role that solar and energy...
View ArticleSolar slowly comes back online in North Carolina
Failures of the electric grid have affected large solar plants after Hurricane Florence, just as they are affecting centralized generation.As floodwaters recede from one of the largest and most...
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SPI 2018: Contradictions, disasters, resilience
This year’s opening session for largest gathering of solar professionals in the United States alluded to many of the themes that the solar industry is grappling with.Solar Power International...
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In case of hurricane, apply Enphase, tighten bolts and mind your wind codes!
FEMA's recommendations for solar system hurricane preparedness focused on structural engineering, installation competence, plus simply tightening the bolts regularly, along with microinverters to...
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As corporate renewable energy purchases expand, so do the risks
Rocky Mountain Institute offers insight into five corporate renewable energy procurement risks - price, shape, basis, volume, and operation - and follows with mitigation strategies and tools to widen...
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Solar insurance needs to “reset benchmark” with higher loss expectancy
Solar insurance company GCube is suggesting that renewable developers in the United States consider slightly higher loss expectancy in the risk models due to accelerated installation times, newer more...
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A dream of distributed generation powering New Jersey
Gridworks, GridLab and the Center for Renewables Integration have authored a paper which outlines the benefits of and necessary steps to most effectively power the state's 100% clean energy target with...
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PVEL & Heliolytics team up for solar disaster investigation
The two companies have teamed up to provide an Incident Response service to help asset owners and managers recover from natural disasters, including providing data to file more accurate insurance...
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Solar + storage to survive disasters
A research note by Roth Capital Partners predicts the residential storage market in the United States to grow more quickly than expected. This prediction is founded just as much in disaster mitigation...
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Energy access for Puerto Ricans two years after Hurricane Maria
In this op-ed for pv magazine, Roy Torbert and José Juan Terrasa-Soler, of Rocky Mountain Institute and Resilient Power Puerto Rico, respectively, analyze the cost of energy recover in Puerto Rico and...
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Power shutoffs cause a battery boom in California
Contractors across California are seeing greater demand for battery storage than ever before in response to PG&E's Public Safety Power Shutoffs. With the threat of blackouts on the 10-year horizon,...
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PG&E, but run by the people
California Governor Gavin Newsom, in expressing his dissatisfaction with PG&E, has proposed that it is not out of the question that the state could intervene in the restructuring of the utility....
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