GLG News by Solar Panel Installers

Maybe it's the 2008 Presidential campaign and its "silly season" that makes one looks askance at a report that somehow makes cleaner air a "bad thing" due to "unintended consequences".   Assuming that this is not a call to return to unbreathable air, the issue might be to look at environmental...

The article discusses the potential for a U.S. carbon regulation and the potential winners and losers once implemented. The Cleantech sector continues to grow with significant investments being made in solar, wind, biofuels and others as well as clean coal and nuclear.The environmental, social and governance...

As wind power and other renewable energy sources become more prominent, their visibility can make them vulnerable to criticism when something in the grid goes wrong and they are anywhere near it.  Wind power developers and manufacturers have to be as cognizant of communication to the public as...

Winston Churchill said it best about the Yanks; "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they've exhausted all the other possibilities".  So may it be with the latest Clean Energy bill (S 2821) introduced in the US Senate on April 3 that has so far garnered 36 cosponsors,...

Installation of photovoltaics in new residential construction is still less than one per cent of nationwide starts, despite the obvious advantages of construction and financing over a long term.  Technical issues are not a factor, except for unfamiliarity.   It is more a matter of marketing...

This article presents an attempt by a small farming town in Indiana to utilize their existing "natural" resources to become energy-independent. The use of corn and manure to produce energy are resources they already have on-site. Becoming totally off-grid however is a real challenge even for a small...

Nearly two hundred years of cheap and plentiful energy supplies, delivery and use are threatening to come to a volatile end.  Environmental issues aside, rising demand, scarcer supply and a paradigm shift to renewable energy models are upsetting the apple cart.  This has shaken many traditional...

Extension of present US federal solar and wind incentives hang in the balance.  Failure to extend to 2009 will at the least cause disruption in the renewable energy market and, if the lapse goes long in 2009, a significant setback that would take years to recover and further cement the US reputation...

Now that most photovoltaic projects are financed by performance, it has to demonstrate that it can generate electricity at a predictable level for decades.  Familiar PV technologies like crystalline have passed this test, as have the more mature thin film applications.  The announcement of...

As the wind power industry grows and matures, attacks on the technology have heightened like the tall towers the turbines rest upon.   One of the  more rational arguments concerning wind power is its inherent intermittent generation, which limits its contribution to the grid.  Commercial...