The solar industry is one of our most obvious success stories. Our industry directly employs 261,000 people. We generate energy that is...

We used to worry about the time when the world would start running out of fossil fuels, defined as Peak Oil. The concept of Peak Oil is...

Electricity is a commodity – indistinguishable regardless of the source (all kwh are the same), available from different suppliers and...

Traditional finance theory characterizes investments by their risk and their return. High risk investments, such as junk bonds, have to...

– $31.03 per barrel – current spot crude oil price – $59.95 per barrel – price of an empty steel oil barrel on Amazon – $82.50 per barrel...

If you are on the current E-6 TOU rate you don’t need to do anything. This E-6 rate is currently slated to stay in place until 2020 or...

Over the past few months you may have seen or heard a continuous stream of ads warning about the imminent demise of solar incentives,...

Whenever I land in a city I can’t help noticing how few — if any — commercial rooftops have solar panels. Historically, there have been...

Mankind has been in an energy transition ever since two cave-boy scouts rubbed two sticks together and created fire. Although the world’s...

According to Doc Brown, Marty McFly’s DeLorean needed 1.21 gigawatts to travel back in time. To put this in perspective, new gas power...

I bet you don’t know that there is a home improvement investment that you can make that will increase the value of your house more than...

It’s the environmentalist’s third rail question: “Should we promote nuclear power as an expedient way to reduce CO2 emissions?” On the...

Over 95% of climate scientists have concluded that CO2 is the primary cause of global warming. Solving the problem requires a dramatic...

Filing For Your Solar Investment Tax Credit - Feb 2015 It's getting to be that time of the year again -- tax time, that is. As all new...

“Comparison Shopping” for a solar power system is a great way for a homeowner to find the cheapest/best system for their needs. BUT IT...

With all the bad press about the renewable energy industry, it’s easy to miss the fact that we are moving steadily down the road towards...

Hmmm. Seems like our solar industry’s crystal ball is a bit blurry these days. Or maybe we don’t like the picture. With prices for panels...

Did anyone notice the juxtaposition of two utility news blurbs in the August 8th, 2007 Mercury News? Are we really that naive that we...

For the past few years I’ve been hearing about how efficient and less expensive it is to install solar power systems in Germany. Many...

Since the “silicon shortage” began two years ago in the solar industry, it had the following financial impact: – Silicon refiners made...