Economies of Scale

Think Texas Energy Is All About The Oil? Think Again

Boom Goes Bust: Texas Oil Industry Hurt By Plunging Oil Prices

Technology is making clean energy competitive with coal for the first time in history, and that’s a game changer. In 1999, we pushed to get the first renewable energy mandate passed in the country – in Texas of all places. There were all sorts of concerns at the time that wind could not be integrated… Keep reading →

TO GO WITH AFP STORY by LISSY DE ABREU -

Several states have embraced net metering in order to encourage the adoption of solar energy and other distributed generation. Sometimes referred to as “running a meter backwards,” net metering allows people to generate their own electricity, export any excess electricity to the grid, and get paid for providing this excess energy to the utility who… Keep reading →

Aleo Produces Solar Panels

Many assume that it’s cheap labor that gives Chinese companies an edge at producing solar panels that cost less than those that come out of Europe or the United States. But a new study says uh-uh. Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and MIT said a bottom-up cost model they developed shows that a plant… Keep reading →