Nationwide grid reliability has improved since last summer — and new solar and batteries, not aging coal plants, are the main reason. It’s set to be an abnormally hot summer this year — but the U.S. grid appears to be in decent shape to handle the heat. The credit goes to a boatload of new solar […]
Over a thousand miles away from Cambridge, Massachusetts, a solar panel installation is surrounded by farmland as far as the eye can see in central Illinois. The energy created there will not only help grain silos in the Midwest but homes in Cambridge too, through its Community Electricity Program. Households enrolled in the Cambridge Community Electricity […]
Lawmakers are trying to find solutions to the mounting economic weight of energy costs on utility customers. To address this, the Maine Legislature revised its net energy billing (NEB) program for non-residential participants last year, but in the process, it halted the state’s community solar market. Nautilus Solar built a community solar farm on a […]
The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point” where solar and wind power will become even cheaper and more widespread, according to two United Nations reports released on Tuesday that describe a bright spot amid otherwise gloomy progress to curb climate change. Last year, 74 per cent of the growth in electricity generated […]