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Who Says Solar is Too Expensive?

written by Walter Wang

Southern California Edison is asking regulators for approval of 75 new PV contracts, totaling 105.53 MW. All priced at the cost of building a new natural gas plant. Now can we stop saying that solar is too expensive?

Details in their Advice Letter, here (pdf).

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April 1, 2013 0 comment
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Energy Policy – Hitting the Broad Side of the Barn

written by Walter Wang

I’ve been thinking about my up-coming meeting with Dr. Raj Pachauri, who, among other things, serves as the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Pondering this in advance of the meeting, I wonder what I would do, given the power, to deal with climate change.

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August 22, 2012 0 comment
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Clean Energy — Looking for Accelerators

written by Walter Wang

We frequently come across the concept of “accelerators,” i.e., forces that cause certain phenomena to speed their way into our lives. Recent examples are the adoption of the Internet and cell phones, both of which exceeded analysts’ expectations by an order of magnitude.

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June 20, 2012 0 comment
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New Software Improves Efficiency of Solar PV Power Plants

written by Walter Wang

Planning a solar PV power plant to make them efficient is a complex task, but German researchers have developed a software that makes conceptual design simpler.

Researchers at the Fraunhoger Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM in Kaiserslautern, in conjunction with Siemens Energy Photovoltaics, have a

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May 14, 2012 0 comment
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Who Says Solar is Too Expensive?

written by The Vote Solar Initiative

Who says solar is too expensive? In fact, in many places it is cheaper than the fossil fueled alternative. How do we know? Well, one place to start is to look at actual contracts for projects.

Attached here (Excel file) is a chart of California Renewable Portfolio Standard contracts downloaded

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September 16, 2011 4 comments
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Are Electric Vehicles an Eco-friendly Replacement for Internal Combustion Engines?

written by Walter Wang

Glenn Doty is a vital part of Doty Windfuels, a company with a terrific future in synthetic fuels made from off-peak wind energy, water, and CO2.

Of course, their industry position makes Glenn and his company a natural competitor to electric vehicles,

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August 18, 2011 1 comment
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First Results From PG&E’s Distributed Generation PV Program

written by Walter Wang

Each investor-owned utility in California has developed a program designed to use distributed generation photovoltaics as wholesale generators. The approved programs total 1.1 GW over the next 4 years–an amount equivalent to the daytime output of 2 mid-sized coal plants. The first

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July 21, 2011 1 comment
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