Solar Decathlon Build-out Gathers Pace By Chris Stimpson Solar Nation Executive Campaigner The sun rose this morning on a new development in progress in downtown Washington — about as downtown as you can get, in fact. On the National Mall, stretching from the Washington Monument east to the Smithsonian ‘Castle’, twenty small houses were in different stages of construction. They had started their journey to the capital from points as far away as Darmstadt, Germany and as close as the state of Virginia, to compete in the 2009 Solar Decathlon
Solar Decathlon Build-out Gathers Pace
October 6th, 2009Feed-in Tariffs, Solar Boon or Boondoggle
July 28th, 2009A feed-in tariff, or FiT, is designed as an incentive to energy producers to develop renewable energy sources, and usually consists of a rate, fixed by legislation, that guarantees higher returns than conventional energy sources. For example, if energy from fossil fuel generation were billed to customers 0.10 cents per kilowatt hour, energy from renewables would likely command 0.20 cents or more for the same kilowatt hour. The feed-in tariff is already widely used in Germany, and similar programs in Greece, Italy, Turkey and South Korea have boosted renewable energy markets.
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Feed-in Tariffs, Solar Boon or Boondoggle
Loosening the Rules for Net Metering
May 28th, 2009Net metering—the practice used in most states for compensating customer-generators for power they supply to the grid—has about as many different versions as there are states. Some act the way they should, as encouragements to citizens to deploy clean energy, while others are nothing less than unfriendly to the whole concept of distributed generation. (For a state-by-state scorecard of net metering performance, check out the IREC/NNEC report Freeing the Grid ).
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Loosening the Rules for Net Metering