Cheaper modules brought solar plants into the energy mainstream. Longer operating lives are making them better investments. Big solar plants are getting cheaper to run and expectations for their useful operational lives keep getting longer, according to a new survey of U.S. solar industry professionals. By the end of 2019, a cumulative total of 76 […]
Plant-based fuels commercially viable: Study
Sustainable plant-based bio-jet fuels could provide a competitive alternative to conventional petroleum fuels if current development and scale-up initiatives continue to push ahead successfully, scientists say. With an estimated daily fuel demand of more than five million barrels per day, the global aviation sector is incredibly energy-intensive and almost entirely reliant on petroleum-based fuels. Unlike […]
Tracking Residential PV Prices Across Reports: From $2.80 to $3.70 per Watt
Berkeley Lab’s latest Tracking the Sun report puts distributed solar prices well above other analyses. Here’s how the numbers stack up. Distributed solar PV prices continued to see a rapid decline through 2017, according to the latest edition of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s annual Tracking the Sun report, published last month. But the study cited prices well above […]