Whites Creek High Senior Inspired by Solar
This blog is a guest post by Jalaysia Hagewood, a graduating senior at Whites Creek High School in Nashville, TN. Jalaysia and her classmates are designing and building the Whites Creek Solar…
Congress: Picking energy losers, over clean energy winners
This blog was written by Sara Barczak, former Regional Advocacy Director with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Time for Virgin Islands to Transfer Power, to Renewables
This blog was written by Simon Mahan, former Energy Policy Manager at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Lafayette restores smart solar policy
Late on November 7th, a local Lafayette, Louisiana newspaper (The Independent) posted a story, "About-face: LUS seeks repeal of ‘solar tax’ ordinance." Lafayette is restoring its smart solar policy! On November 1st, I published…
Local utility quietly clouds solar future
UPDATE: Lafayette restores smart solar policy Back in 2012, my family installed a new solar power system on our home. Federal tax credits coupled with Louisiana's solar power tax credits meant we spent…
North Carolina's Secret Agenda to Destroy Renewable Energy
Jennifer Rennicks, SACE's NC Liaison and Director of Policy and Communications, contributed to this post. North Carolina has been a lightning rod for controversy over the past few months with its passage…
Dirt cheap renewables beating fossil fuels on price
A new analysis shows that wind energy and solar power are more affordable than ever. Every year, Lazard Associates publishes its Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis on different types of power plants including…
A Bright, Sunny Forecast for the Tennessee Valley
This blog was written by John D. Wilson, former Deputy Director for Regulatory Policy at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.
Utilities and the Distributed Energy Paradigm Shift
This is the second blog in a series on the growth of distributed energy in the U.S. The first, "The Calm before the Solar Storm," was posted May 29. In a move…