The Calm Before the Solar Storm
This blog by Rocky Mountain Institute’s Senior Electricity Consultant, Virginia Lacy, originally appeared on the RMI Outlet, here. This is also the first blog in a series on the growth of distributed…
Enlisting the Sun: A Solar Powered Military in the 21st Century
This blog was written by Jennifer Rennicks, former Senior Director of Policy & Communications at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Unusual Bedfellows at the Georgia PSC
What do the Georgia Tea Party, low-income advocates, faith leaders, and green business have in common? They were all at the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) this week calling for more clean…
Florida residential solar market gets a little sunnier
Installing a solar energy system on a home in Florida may soon be less of a financial headache for residential property owners. That’s because the Florida legislature recently passed House bill 277.…
TVA Continues to Mismanage Solar Power
Charlie Coggeshall, SACE Renewable Energy Manager, also contributed to this post. Last month the Tennessee Valley Authority proudly announced what they considered to be good news: That their 2013 Green Power Provider…
Google pressures largest US utility company to put renewable energy on the menu
This guest blog was authored by Gary Cook, senior policy analyst at Greenpeace, USA. Google's own blog can be found here. Thanks to some pressure from Google, the largest utility company in the…
Duck River EMC Offers You a Piece of the Sun
Do you want to invest in solar, but you can’t? Maybe your roof doesn’t point south, or it’s shaded most of the time. Maybe you rent. Maybe you just can’t come up…
There Is No Such Thing as a Solar Ash Spill
Although it has been over four years since more than a billion tons of coal ash were dumped on the small town of Kingston, TN, the city is still working to clean up…
State Legislature paying attention to Florida nuclear tax
On March 18th, I attended the Florida State Senate's workshop on nuclear cost recovery, also known as Florida's "nuclear tax," where industry advocates and the big power companies extolled the many virtues of…
SACE Solar Array Shines In Its First Year
Just over a year ago we made the decision to continue to practice what we preach with the installation and activation of our own solar photovoltaic array at our Knoxville, TN office. …