… Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locates solar energy production and agricultural operations. Combining these practices into one space creates an efficient and sustainable land-use system that benefits farmers, solar developers, rural communities, and the earth itself. This emerging form of renewable …
… A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Pollinator-Friendly Solar in Minnesota 6778 2745 2798 2796 2752 Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions … Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Maximizing Land Use Benefits From Utility-Scale Solar … Maximizing Land Use Benefits From Utility-Scale Solar Katie Siegner (Master of … In the near term, there are opportunities for research and education to generate a more robust understanding of the practice, and in the long-term, the environmental and social …
… SolarizeCT, which began in 2009, is designed to increase the installation of residential solar systems through local campaigns. The results have been stunning. In a threeyear Connecticut campaign (2012–2015), the number of homes with solar grew from about 800 to over 12,500. Research findings based on the campaign—the first …
… At the end of 2010, Jifan Gao, Trina Solar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his company could expand its presence in the … quickly establish strong relationships with some of the continent’s leading developers of solar projects. Trina supplied modules for a number of large, signature projects, developing … States. Some module makers had taken a fairly direct route and had acquired leading U.S. solar developers. In September of 2010, the Japanese module maker Sharp had bought Recurrent …
… Services Valuation Bring Additional Value Streams to Minnesota’s Pollinator-Friendly Solar Industry? 2796 6778 2798 2745 Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Clean … Services Valuation Bring Additional Value Streams to Minnesota’s Pollinator-Friendly Solar Industry? Overview Siting solar projects is often complicated by land use tensions and trade-offs. At seven acres of …
… In 2014, the Connecticut Green Bank released the second edition of its CT Solar Lease program in an attempt to create an accessible financing solution for independent local contractors to support the rising demand for residential and commercial solar systems. This case study focuses on the residential side of the solar-lease program. The program combined public funds and private capital to finance …
… Harish Hande and the company he founded, SELCO, provide solar electricity for lighting and power to India's poor. For the work of his company, Hande … its mission to help the poor. As the company was recovering from this move, the price of solar panels spiked and sales declined. Investors put pressure on Hande to lay off employees … customers to increase their income and quality of life. However, India’s developmental problems were daunting; over 400 million individuals were in poverty. Observers frequently …
… As the Connecticut Green Bank works to design high-impact programs for the solar market, it has supported the design and adoption of legislation that expanded the Residential Solar Investment Program (RSIP) by creating the Solar Home Renewable Energy Credit (SHREC). The SHREC provides a stable funding structure …
… clean energy policies, the shortcomings of RPSs are becoming more acute. In areas of high solar penetration, for example, solar power generates electricity during the day, but fails to provide energy during the … of electricity. Encourage renewable energy siting near high-priced markets. Support a robust, transparent inter-state market while preserving climate change mitigation benefits. …
… Renewable Thermal Technologies (RTT), especially heat pumps paired with solar, have the potential to dramatically decrease energy consumption and by extension … and natural gas consumption and carbon emissions. Then, we investigated how much solar will be needed to completely decarbonize electricity under the current paradigm versus … pumps, electricity consumption also decreases by up to 38%, which reduces the amount of solar needed to decarbonize electricity by 38% as well. These results highlight the …