by Gary Chen | Mar 30, 2017 | News
By many measures, the financing programs referred to as PACE — or property-assessed clean energy — are among the most successful energy-efficiency financing tools in U.S. history. The programs, which fund building efficiency upgrades and rooftop solar...
by Gary Chen | Mar 24, 2017 | News
The quest to make solar energy a major source of the world’s electricity will not succeed if national policies and industries compete as though it is a zero-sum game. That is just one of many findings of The New Solar System, a sprawling report released earlier this...
by Gary Chen | Mar 23, 2017 | News
Dive Brief: Lawmakers in the California Assembly and Senate have introduced legislation to encourage more clean energy resources in the state in order to address peak load, reliability and to avoid the need for new fossil fuel generation. The bills would require...
by Gary Chen | Mar 21, 2017 | News
When Google first launched a website two years ago that collects data on solar rooftops, called Project Sunroof, it only covered a few cities. But this week, the search engine giant announced the solar site is now crunching data for every single U.S. state, including...
by Gary Chen | Mar 17, 2017 | News
When the Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt the HERO program, the goal was to help local homeowners make energy and efficiency upgrades that could reduce utility bills and greenhouse gas emissions while creating local clean-energy jobs. Today, it’s...