Solar Energy

Solar Energy’s Unstoppable Ascendancy: The Role of Battery Storage in Growth

Solar energy’s unstoppable ascendancy, largely caused by costs continuing to fall and deployment accelerating, is no longer a matter of if—it is a matter of how fast. The global energy...

MAGA Needs Clean Energy

Climate change is an issue of global concern but not a MAGA priority. Clean energy, on the other hand, should be. Conflating the two is a big mistake. Increasing American...

Coping with China’s Cleantech Growth

With President Biden’s announcement of a broad series of tariffs aimed at stemming the flood of goods imported from China and protecting American workers and businesses, Washington has opened a...

U.S. Solar Industry Threatened by China’s Overproduction

As campaign season approaches, Democrats in Congress and the Biden administration will surely tout the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as a major achievement. And thanks to generous tax credits, the...

Is Florida Considering Killing the Free Market?

Florida has historically been a free market leader in the United States. Business taxes are low, there’s no state income tax, and the regulatory burden is light. In fact, Florida is regularly listed...

Who is going to pay for and benefit from the expansion of solar power?

Here’s what you need to remember: By proposing $350 billion in policy incentives, Biden is pushing solar further into the mainstream than ever before. Most of the costs and benefits of...

How America Can Counter China In the Energy Competition

Last Monday two of the World’s most established Newspapers — The Washington Post and the New York Times — published clear unequivocal condemnations of the lie known as “China’s Peaceful Rise;” a false...

New Solar Panel Models Offer Great Promise (But There Is a Big Catch)

As our planet races towards a climate emergency, there is hope from some people that renewable energy will come to the rescue. Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology has evolved steadily since...

Another Federally-Backed Solar Energy Project Just Went Belly-Up

Looks like another federally backed solar energy plant has gone bust. Bloomberg News reports, “A $1 Billion Solar Plant Was Obsolete Before It Ever Went Online.” In 2011 the $1 billion...

Centrally Planned Energy: Bad for the Economy, Bad for the Environment

On Earth Day, the United States will sign the Paris Climate agreement. In terms of the actual climate policy already implemented by the Obama administration, however, the events of the...