Transportation is responsible for 30% of our global carbon footprint. And it's 2/3 more efficient to drive electric vehicles than to burn gasoline.  But the US still lags far behind China and the EU when it comes to EV adoption.  So, what do prosumers and energy professionals need to know about furthering the electrification of…

Jack’s Solar Garden is the largest agrivoltaics research site for vegetable production thus far in the United States!  Alongside research partners, Sprout City Farms is trailblazing larger scale crop cultivation under solar panels, in an innovative farming practice called agrivoltaics.  Research partners include: Colorado State UniversityUniversity of ArizonaNational Renewable Energy LaboratoryColorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center Speeding…

Installing solar energy systems in our homes and businesses is a good first step. But how do we keep those solar farms up and running?   Is there a solar asset management service that can monitor your system, remotely diagnose problems and send a technician when necessary?   Better yet, is there a service that…

Schools, municipalities, nonprofits and small for-profit companies that want to go solar typically don’t have the resources to do so on their own. They need investors in clean energy projects to make it work. Yet local EPCs tend to shy away from selling third-party-owned solar PPA projects to their customers and focus solely on cash…

Schools, municipalities, nonprofits and small for-profit companies that want to go solar typically don’t have the resources to do so on their own. They need investors in clean energy projects to make it work. Yet local EPCs tend to shy away from selling third-party-owned solar PPA projects to their customers and focus solely on cash…

The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by the Clean Power Consulting GroupAll content can be found at: http://www.CleanPower.Group/podcast Simon Moores is the CEO of London-based Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, the world’s leading Price Reporting Agency (PRA), data and intel provider for the lithium ion battery to electric vehicle supply chain. He has has been…

Clean Power Hour LIVE with Tim Montague | March 3, 2022 Check out these events: April 5-7 Oakland, CA – Solar Plaza: SAMNA Solar Asset Management North America Jun 20-22 Minneapolis, MN – Midwest Solar Expo Simon Moores is coming on the Clean Power Hour LIVE show next week for our LIVE on Thursdays.  Watch that…

Thomas Folker describes Leap as the Stripe for energy.  The same way that Stripe provides the infrastructure for online payment processing, Leap allows anyone with energy resources (battery or EV companies, for example) to connect to the grid and trade energy as if they were a power plant. In other words, Leap is a one-stop…

Less than 1% of the solar that’s going to be built has been built. And in the wake of climate change, it’s imperative that we build solar plants faster and make the process cheaper.  But what will it take to achieve terawatt-scale solar power? Matt Campbell is the Cofounder and CEO of Terabase Energy, a…

Solar & Storage News LIVE from Boston at RE+ Northeast Reducing the cost of solar – John Weaver gives us some perspective as the owner of Whaling City Solar a residential solar installer in MA and RI. How does Australia and Germany achieve dollar a watt solar pricing? Standardization and streamlining of the permitting and…