Georgia residents can quickly and easily in Georgia Power’s Smart Solar program. By agreeing to pay one cent per kilowatt-hour more than the standard rate, they can promote solar energy without installing a rooftop solar system on their homes.
A partnership between a Nigerian and an American company will bring solar power microgrids to 25 communities in Nigeria this year. Most have had no electricity for at least 10 years.
Living in a mobile home or manufactured home doesn’t prevent people from enjoying clean, renewable solar power. Here are several ways to get in on solar using innovative strategies.
A new community solar installation near San Antonio is scheduled to go online this fall. It will produce 1.2 megawatts of power from 11,200 sun tracking solar panels spread over 10 acres.
The Solar For All report encourages utility companies to take a more aggressive role in bringing rooftop and residential solar power to low and middle income families. It offers three easy, common sense steps to achieve that end.
SolarCity has announced a new solar service specifically for affordable housing communities, developers, and residents. One of America’s leading solar power providers, SolarCity announced on Thursday that it was launching a new solar service “that can make it possible for affordable housing developers, builders, and residents to pay less for solar electricity than they currently pay for utility power.” Specifically, SolarCity intends to finance and install solar power systems itself on the rooftops and carports of affordable housing communities with the subsequent…
Yeloha is a peer-to-peer sharing company that puts solar systems on suitable roofs and shares the electricity with those who want solar power themselves.
Scotland’s “love affair” with home-grown, small-scale, clean energy continues to soar, and new figures show just how widespread the love reaches. New figures published earlier in August by industry body Scottish Renewables and Scotland’s Rural College highlight just how many small-scale energy generators there are in the country: There are around 42,000 solar schemes — which equates to around 660,000 250W solar panels — 2,557 small wind projects, 204 hydro-electric schemes, and three anaerobic digesters generating electricity for Scottish homes,…
Hip-hop and R&B musician Akon has a plan to bring solar power to 600,000,000 people in Africa through education and government action by the year 2020.
The Minnesota Solar Community Garden program will create 100 one megawatt installations in the Twin Cities area. Renters, low income subscribers, schools and people with roofs that are not suitable for solar panels will benefit.