It's no secret that the U.S. is struggling with an historic housing shortage compounded by rising rents. One meaningful - and increasingly popular - path to helping financially-strapped renters, homeowners, and businesses is through community solar programs. Unlike single family homes where rooftop solar is more feasible and financially beneficial to the homeowner, renters don't have the option of exploring [...]
We're excited to announce that Pasture Voltaics LLC and its unique SunTracker technology have joined the PlanitWorks partner family. Using raised, high-tensile cables positioned nine feet above the ground to control a solar grid array to track the sun, SunTracker enables ranchers, farmers, Native American tribes, and other entities with vested land management interests to: Provide green energy development Protect [...]
Federal hurdles, including onerous fees and development delays, are seriously hampering tribal nations' efforts to implement ambitious alternative energy projects that could generate reliable power, new jobs, clean energy, and massive new economic opportunities. Although the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) committed hundreds of billions to support clean energy initiatives across the country, a perfect storm of interconnection requirements, a high [...]
Despite what may seem like a steady drumbeat of bad news regarding electric vehicle (EV) sales and leases, the industry is actually enjoying sufficient growth to suggest it soon may achieve a 10 percent share of the domestic auto industry. Kelley Blue Book estimates EV sales in the third quarter hit 346,309 units, reflecting a year over year growth rate [...]
Last spring California quietly achieved a milestone that, despite its ramifications for homeowners, businesses, and the planet itself, generated few if any headlines: the use of battery-stored energy surpassed that of natural gas. In other words, California homes and businesses are now pulling more energy from battery storage systems than from natural gas solutions. And with the cost of batteries [...]
What if a nation struggling with reducing its heavy carbon footprint, an affordable housing deficit, and substandard energy efficiencies could tackle all three at the same time? Well, it can and we're going to do it. The ingredients? Some serious outside-the-box thinking and a marriage of innovative technologies. Our testbeds? Where affordable housing and energy efficiencies are at their worst: [...]
It's no secret that heat pumps are gaining in popularity. They're more energy-efficient, eco-friendly, and thrive on the very same conditions (moderating winters, intensifying summers) that are the signatures of climate change. But where the U.S.'s adoption of heat pumps is still measured on a per-housing unit basis, Europe is going one step further. Make that one giant leap further. [...]
At a time when so much of the country is transitioning to green, efficient energy systems, many if not most Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) face numerous and significant impediments to joining that movement. But in those challenges also exist opportunities which, if adequately met, could help to fuel this same energy revolution. First, the challenges: Financial Limits. Many HBCUs [...]
