Category: Solar Sales and Services

In 2007, the North Carolina General Assembly established the Renewable Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards (“Standards”), which required that all investor-owned utilities in the state obtain 12.5% of their energy needs from eligible renewable energy sources (the requirement is 10% for rural electric co-ops and municipal electric suppliers).  One way a utility may meet these requirements is by using power generated by solar energy resources. The effect of the Standards has been noticeable in North Carolina: instead of acres and acres of corn, tobacco, or soybeans, fields of solar panels now pepper the…

Update: Amazon has dropped the price further to a new all-time low of $179 shipped, with the power station bundled alongside a 40W Mini solar panel for a new $269 low. Following on the heels of yesterday’s discount on the new Jackery Solar Generator 1000 Plus Roam Kit, the official Jackery Amazon storefront is now offering its new Explorer 240 v2 Portable Power Station for $199 shipped, after clipping the on-page $50 off coupon. Normally fetching $249 since its release in April, this is the first official discount that we…

Within the framework of a joint project involving the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, and the European Commission’s “Ray of Hope,” several batches of solar panels produced by Enel S.p.A. have arrived in Ukraine. This includes 5,876 solar panels with a total capacity of approximately 2 MW, all of which will be handed over to meet the needs of Ukrainian hospitals. The initiative was previously announced by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the relevant agreements were reached through…

Vatican City – Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License CC BY-SA 3.0 There’s no country anywhere on Earth that’s entirely powered by renewable energy every day, but that’s soon to change. In a letter released on June 21 entitled “Brother Sun” Pope Francis announced his intention to transition Vatican City onto 100% renewable energy using solar panels. The apostolic letter issued “motu proprio,” or on his own initiative, detailed the pontiff’s plan to use the Vatican’s multi-purpose land holdings 11 miles outside of Rome in an area called Santa Maria di…

According to the application submitted by developer EDF Renewables, the proposed Socorro project will sit on 3,066 acres on nearly 6,000-acres of public land and it would produce up to 350 MW of solar energy along with battery energy storage. July 2, 2024 Anne Fischer The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input to inform development of an environmental assessment for the proposed Socorro Solar Energy project in southeastern La Paz County. According to the application submitted by developer EDF Renewables in October 2021, the proposed Socorro project…