Jun 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
Bloomberg News, one of the pre-eminent business news sources in the U.S., is coming out with revised estimates on the outlook for renewables. These show that solar is taking over in a big way — faster than most of us thought just a few years ago. A June...
Jun 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
The addition of hundreds of solar panels on the roof of the UVA Clemons Library has gotten a lot of attention this spring, in news outlets and locally, as state government officials made their appearances. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe visited the campus in April...
Jun 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Farmers and manufacturers and other small business leaders are flocking to a program called Rural Energy for America or REAP that was first established in 2002 — over the years, the USDA has been busy awarding eligible beneficiaries grant funding through this...
Jun 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Internet is abuzz with reports that utilities company Excelon may be planning to put Pennsylvania’s famous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, one of America’s most iconic energy installations, on ice. Thirty-eight years after near meltdown, one of the most...
Jun 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
News from the federal Naval Research Laboratory shows how solar energy is becoming more important to national defense and military systems. A May release described the use of photovoltaic arrays and solar gear in ‘unmanned aerial vehicles’ or ‘UAVs,’ also referred to...
Dec 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
The 30 percent solar tax credit was set to expire next year and will now extend through 2019 before tapering to 10 percent in 2022. FYI, the wind credit had expired at the end of 2014, and the extension will be retroactively applied from the start of 2015 through...
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