Falling Solar Panel Costs are Great for Buyers, Bad for Producers (sort of)
A recent industry analysis by Lux Research projects the amount of solar power installed is to grow 15.5 percent per year, but revenues are to stay flat, until 2016. A report from Navigant Consulting...
View ArticleSolar PV Reducing Price of Electricity in Germany
Oh, the solar power haters* are going to love this one---a recent study by Germany's Institute for Future Energy Systems (IZES), conducted on behalf of of the German Solar Industry Association...
View ArticleNew Solar Power Charts
Greentech Media posted a number of solar power charts yesterday on its website, charts which Shayle Kann presented at the SolarTech Solar Leadership Summit in San Jose, California yesterday. This is...
View ArticleSolar “Learning Curve”&“Golden Goal” (Bloomberg Charts)
Along with the fun charts just released by SEIA and GTM Research yesterday, Bloomberg just released some pretty awesome ones that a friend on Google+ shared with me. The first, above, is on the solar...
View ArticleSolar Grid Parity in North Carolina (New Study)
As John Farrell noted in an article in January, grid parity is a complicated matter (and doesn’t take into account important health costs, greenhouse gas emissions costs, and grid costs). But grid...
View ArticleOngoing Sharp Drop in Solar PV Cost Overlooked Amidst Trade Wars & Insolvencies
Solar PV manufacturing and overall costs continue to fall sharply, but that's being overlooked as the media focuses on solar trade wars, price wars, scandals and insolvencies Ongoing Sharp Drop in...
View Article10 Huge Lessons We’ve Learned From Solar Power Success In Germany
Fox & Friends last week had the apparent bravery (or ill-conceived agenda) to mention Germany’s huge solar power success. We’ve written three articles in response to the Fox & Friends clip: Fox...
View Article49% Of New US Electricity Capacity Is From Solar, Q1 Record (Report)
A couple of big solar records were set in Q1 2013 in the US. For one, 49% of all new US electricity generation capacity came form solar, the most ever for a first quarter. Secondly, 723 MW of solar...
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New Wind & Solar Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions & Cost Less Than Keeping...
Recently, we have seen a spate of older nuclear reactors shut down by their owners for economic reasons. One of the first bellwethers of this trend was the Kewaunee power plant closure. While the...
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Solar PV Panels Were 12× More Expensive In 2010, 459× More Expensive In 1977
Let's take a look at home rooftop solar power system costs, how solar panel costs have come down in time, and Tesla solar's extremely low cost.
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