Solar Energy
Solar Leases Attracting New Demographic The sun is shining on homeowners in less affluent neighborhoods who are discovering they can afford solar energy after all — by leasing rather than buying the panels on their roofs.read full article |
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In the Canadian province of Alberta, the Athabasca Oil Sands and the Keystone Pipeline are not the only important energy stories. In Alberta's capital of Edmonton, Montreal-based Enerkem is building a full-scale commercial plant that will use a thermo-chemical process to convert up to 100,000 metric tons of municipal solid waste into syngas, which is then converted into methanol and ethanol.
The solar industry is moving to the south, and for concentrating photovoltaics (CPV), this is a good thing.
In a New York Times Sunday Review piece last month — Drawing the Line at Power Lines — Elisabeth Rosenthal suggested that our desire for clean energy will require significant tradeoffs:
There are pipelines, trains, trucks and high-voltage transmission lines. None of them are pretty, and all have environmental drawbac
Last week, Mark Gaspers, U.S. energy manager with IKEA North America, and Pete Kadens, president of SoCore Energy, joined AltaTerra Research for an online conference on how corporate solar power strategies are evolving beyond isolated or pilot installations and moving toward portfolio-wide deployments.
Pete and Mark are highly knowledgeable
If you measured the southwestern United States by its solar and wind capacity, it'd barely register on the map. Dig a little deeper and you'd realize that even without the mega-PV farms and the sprawling fields of turbines, the region plays a vital role in the overall health of the industry.
There are few environmental holidays in the United States, so Earth Day is certainly a great time to market solar. However, it is late in the game, so if you haven't planned anything yet, here are five quickie/fairly cheapie guerrilla marketing ideas that you can do to build solar brand and customer relationships on April 22, 2012, a.k.a. Earth Day
