Remember the EV1 - GMs experimental foray into electric vehicles? Although the EV1 was a failure in terms of mass market sales, it...

According the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) there are about 70 million residential and commercial buildings in the US that are...

You know what they say: “Video killed the radio star.” Well I’m going out on a limb and adding video to this week’s podcast. But since my...

Attention U.S. Department of Commerce: your well-intentioned efforts to help the U.S. solar panel manufacturing industry are not working....

It’s depressing that lithium batteries get almost all of the focus in the energy storage industry. Lithium batteries have a number of...

One of my favorite Hemingway books is “The Sun Also Rises.” It’s about Spain, bull fighting and a group of lost generation friends in...

We have all seen those big power plants outside cities that provide power — historically from coal, oil and nuclear and now more...

Solar combined with battery storage seems like magic to many residential and commercial customers. With a million and a half systems...

Energy storage is critical to our ability to eliminate the use of fossil fuels. Basically, we need a way to store the abundance of...

Electric utilities got their start in the U.S. in the 1880s. Thomas Edison began transmitting DC power as he literally illuminated the...

California continues to lead the country when it comes to clean and inexpensive energy. Here is an example – In May the California Energy...

There is no doubt in my mind that the “All Electric future” is inevitable. The only question is how fast…20 or 50 or 75 years? Electric...

What are the best solar panels? That’s a question we are asked all the time. When customers look for the “best” solar panels they...

For over a hundred years our civilization has been getting electricity from centralized generation. This utility business model relies on...

The battery storage industry is roughly where the solar industry was in the early 2000’s. It’s a tiny market now, with fewer than 1,000...

We often talk about smaller solar power systems on homes or commercial buildings. On this week’s Energy Show we are discussing gigawatt...

We call our power system an electric “grid” because it is composed of a network of wires that move the power around from node to node –...

We’ve been installing rooftop solar panels and solar inverters for almost 20 years. Solar panels are incredibly reliable – guaranteed for...

Solar and battery storage systems are constructed on-site with components from a number of different manufactures. It’s not as if one...

For the past 15+ years companies have been installing PV solar systems to reduce their energy costs, measured in kilowatt hours (kwh)....