Floating Solar Panels Sail Forward
As solar energy has become more mainstream, solar panels have found their way onto more and more unique places, from theme parks to...
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Jun 30, 2022
Solar Panels Helping Old Landfills Embrace a Greener Future
As the solar industry has matured over recent decades, solar panels have found their way onto more and more unusual places. Cars, lakes,...
Nov 29, 2021
2021 Guide for Solar-Inspired Holiday Gifts
The holiday season is now upon us and that means that it is time for those holiday traditions new and old that make this time of year so...
Feb 26, 2020
Solar Industry Employment Rebounds in 2019
After experiencing back-to-back years of declining employment, the U.S. solar industry rebounded in 2019, adding more than 5,600 jobs. An...
Apr 22, 2019
The History of Solar Energy
Today, we equate solar energy with electricity, but that wasn’t always the case. Throughout history and across the world, people have...
Feb 4, 2019
Inspiring the Next Generation of Solar Power Enthusiasts at a Young Age
While Whitney Houston famously told us that the children are our future, those advocating for a clean energy transition also contend that...
Dec 3, 2018
Answering the Internet’s Pressing Solar Questions Using The Open PV Project
While solar power continues its accelerated adoption in the U.S. market, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) tracks...
Oct 15, 2018
The Duck Curve: Utilities’ Growing Challenge to Solar Adoption
Since 2008, the U.S. has seen a veritable explosion of not just residential solar, but commercial and utility-scale installations as...
Oct 8, 2018
Off-Grid Solar and the Path to Universal Access
One in seven people around the world live without access to electricity, and that is leaving a devastating human toll. In Sub-Saharan...
Sep 10, 2018
Solar Head of State: An Interview with Director and Co-Founder James Ellsmoor
Seeking to harness the untapped resources in communities that could most benefit from rooftop solar installations, James Ellsmoor...
Aug 14, 2018
Small Modular Reactors: Launching in 2018
Small modular reactors (SMRs) are an innovation on nuclear plant design that could replace coal-fired steam turbines with zero or...
Aug 7, 2017
Solar in Space: Powering the International Space Station
Since the earliest days of the space program, solar panels have been powering satellites, spacecraft and space stations. Today, the...
May 29, 2017
Your Summer Guide to Solar Fairs
Solar fairs and sustainable living expos are great places to learn more about solar. For consumers, sustainable living events are a place...
Feb 12, 2017
Jimmy Carter: The “Solar President”
In the late 1970s, the peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia became the first American president to promote solar as a path to American...
Jan 30, 2017
Why Utilities have already lost the “War on Net Metering”
As state legislatures gavel in their 2017 sessions, a new crop of anti-net metering bills is being pressed forward by utility and fossil...
Jan 9, 2017
Clarifying Five Common Anti-Solar Talking Points
Solar Subsidies, Environmental Impact and “True Cost”… Who is Right? The virtual world of social medial is a funny place. It’s not like...
Jan 1, 2017
Solar Trends to Watch in 2017: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Solar Tribune’s Annual predictions. Spoiler Alert: 2017 Will Rock!! Happy New Year, solar watchers! 2016 was a wild ride in both policy...
Sep 9, 2016
Energy and Terrorism: Solar as a Tool of Peace
15 years after 9/11, The world is still struggling with the role of energy in geopolitics. Two years ago, I wrote an article for Solar...
Jun 19, 2016
MREA: The USA’s Longest Running Energy Fair
This weekend marks the 27th annual Midwest Renewable Energy Association Energy Fair, in Custer Wisconsin. You might be asking yourself,...
Mar 19, 2016
Good Solar Gone Bad?
Long the darling of environmentalists, solar is now powering less eco-friendly businesses as well. Generating energy with solar panels...
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