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

We’re talking about hot water this week. No — I’m not in trouble with my local utility again — just discussing the best ways to heat...

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...

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)....

Some people just love riding the “solar coaster” – both the exciting up times and the death-defying plunges…usually from some totally...

Here’s a solar industry secret: all solar panels generate the same amount of electricity on a per watt basis. In other words, twenty 300...

Millions of Americans were using cereal boxes, telescopes, and flimsy plastic solar viewing glasses to witness the Solar Eclipse on...

With much higher volume manufacturing, prices for solar panels have come down tremendously over the past 20 years — from about $1,000...

20 years ago the problem with rooftop solar was that customers needed a large collection of lead acid batteries to store their daytime...

Future energy sources in our homes and businesses will be a combination of rooftop solar, battery storage and power delivered by the...

In spite of the fact that it’s neither fast nor furious, the Chevy Bolt is currently the most practical and economical Electric Vehicle....

There’s no doubt in my mind that the home of the future will be solar powered. Intuitively it would be great if the roofing material...

It may seem counter-intuitive, but you can have too many solar panels on your roof. With conventional net metering, your utility will not...