Notes from the Solar Underground: Conferences, Conferences Everywhere

Paula Mints

June 22, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Considering its relatively small size, the solar industry has always had too many conferences. Most conferences are highly subjective and trend driven. Full Article

In SolarCity Bid, Tesla’s Musk Targets Customers Wanting All

Chris Martin

June 22, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Tesla Motors Inc.’s offer to buy SolarCity Corp. would combine two already deeply linked companies to offer clean energy enthusiasts a one-stop shop. Full Article

On Solar Wings Around the World

Olga Cherny

June 21, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Solar Impulse 2, a solar powered plane that started its historic round-the-world journey in Abu Dabhi, Arab Emirates, in March 2015, made a 4:00 a.m. landing at New York's JFK Airport Full Article

Beamreach Says Its Lightweight Solar System Slashes Commercial Solar Install Time by up to 80 Percent

Jennifer Runyon

June 21, 2016 | Post Your Comment

One of the problems with traditional commercial rooftop solar is that it’s mighty heavy. Since commercial roofs tend to be very flat and commercial systems very large, the roofs often cannot withstand Full Article

Renewable Energy for Security: Electricity and the Boko Haram Kidnapping

Peter Lilienthal

June 21, 2016 | Post Your Comment

It’s 10 p.m. The lights in your village of Chibok, in a remote corner of Nigeria, went out for the night half an hour before. Blackness and quiet cover the land, and you drift off to sleep in your bed in the girls’ dormitory. Full Article

Momentum for Solar-diesel Hybrid Microgrids in the Zambian Mining Industry

Dr. Thomas Hillig

June 21, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Load shedding, increased electricity rates for mining companies and a solar tender at 6.02US¢/kWh redefine the rules of power generation in Zambia Full Article

Whitepaper: Bridging IT and OT for the Connected Asset Lifecycle Management Era

ABB

More assets, more sensors, more data and more analysis are bringing asset-intensive industries into a new era of asset management, one of unprecedented connection and information. But how do utility companies take advantage of these new opportunities? Full Article

Sustainable Women Series: Blowing Emissions Away: Building a 6-MW Wind Farm

Gabrielle Rossetti

June 21, 2016 | Post Your Comment

The Kingston Wind Project, a 6-MW farm, has produced 48,360,370 kWh to-date, eliminating 35 metric tons of CO2 that would have been produced by a coal mine and equivalent to Full Article