Nearly everyone involved in the solar industry expected 2019 to be a great year. It was, and then some. Cutting the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) from 30 percent to 26 percent in 2020 got lots of fence-sitters to decide now was the time to go solar. As a result, nearly every segment of the solar…
Category: Green energy
Off-Grid Solar Making a Comeback
Not that many years ago, almost all of the solar systems being installed in the country were grid-tied or grid-interactive systems. Net metering was becoming common throughout the county, and many states were offering very generous incentives over and above the 30 percent federal incentive. Only a few years ago, for example, the state of…
FERC official: "We are now in an era of rising electricity prices."
A steady reduction in nationwide generating capacity in increasing electricity rates, according to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission member Phillip Moeller. “We are now in an era of rising electricity prices,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “If you take enough supply out of the system, the price is going to increase.” In fact, electric rates…