The 18th annual QCon San Francisco conference was held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This ...

With distributed generation on the rise, consumers now play dual roles as both energy producers and consumers, ...

Traditionally, these heaters operated during off-peak hours overnight ... When there’s more solar power than a household can use, it returns to the grid. Scaled up, this creates new challenges ...

Optimal system sizes ranged from 5 kW to over 500 kW. We found that optimally sized solar PV installations all have a positive Net Present Value —meaning that the investment will eventually pay itself ...

Renewable energy, particularly solar power, presents a viable and affordable solution for many global communities living off the grid. In recent years, solar technologies have become cheaper, more ...

Yet this charmingly off-grid anomaly boasts a general store, a saloon/restaurant, rental cabins and camping, plus bikes, paddleboards and kayaks for hire (Bowman Lake is nearby). Polebridge can be ...

Barry Cinnamon heads up Cinnamon Energy Systesms (a San Jose CA residential and commercial solar and energy storage contractor) and Spice Solar (suppliers of built-in solar racking technology).

The ISA unveiled the Solar Data Portal, which will offer real-time data on solar resources, project performance, and investment opportunities across member nations. Also, the Global Solar Facility, a ...

Millions more households could be asked to regularly switch off ... grid by 2030, an official review has found. The Energy Secretary has been told that the Government’s pledge to rely on wind ...

XI’AN, China—This should be a shining moment for Longi, one of the biggest makers of solar-power equipment in the world. Longi and a few other Chinese companies dominate the solar business ...

Going off the grid has long been an appealing fantasy: Plant some solar panels in your backyard next to the hot tub and the organic vegetable garden, and let the energy flow. Doing it in a studio ...

The option for a solar switch off is still there ... needs to be carefully managed to ensure electricity reliability and grid security while managing power system risks,” he said.