Dunn could have reduced installation costs by $20,000 by putting solar panels on the roof, but he opted for two pole-mounted canopies in the parking lot.

When an elderly couple was found brutally murdered in their bed – stabbed 128 times — police faced the coldest killer they’d ever encountered … and he was just 15

GaN and SiC semiconductor materials allow for smaller, faster, more reliable devices with higher efficiency than their silicon-based cousins. These capabilities make it possible to reduce weight, volume, and lifecycle costs in a wide range of power applications. Figure 1 compares the breakdown voltage and on-resistance of Si, SiC, and GaN devices.

In what has been touted as Australia’s largest rollout of stand-alone systems (SPS) to date, Western Power is all set to roll out 57 power systems, which combine solar and battery technology with a backup generator.

These new generation PV panels are ultra-durable and toughened to withstand the terrain in South America and can absorb the suns energy from the front side and rear side. This enables the panels to produce 25 percent more energy than one-sided solar panels.

I wish my garbage service drove one of those. The noise and stink of garbage day in my neighborhood is really annoying.

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We recently touched on the topic of climate change in an article about how a startup called Climeworks is developing a technology to capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide. The effort is noble, if not entirely lucrative at present. And, let’s face it, the only way to clean up the planet at scale is to make it profitable. The strategy also needs to consider zero-carbon technologies that are practical and proven. Solar energy certainly qualifies under that criteria. The U.S. solar industry generated more than $150 billion in economic activity in 2016, with revenues jumping from $42 million to $210 million over a 10-year period between 2007 and 2017, PBS reported. The article also noted that about twice as many people work in solar-related jobs than in the coal mining industry. Maybe that’s why it seems that so many companies, including Google, are floating the idea of floating solar farms.

Dunn also took advantage of government incentives, including a 30-percent federal tax credit, depreciation deduction and $50,000 state rebate available at the time.

California leads the way with storage incentives at the state level with its Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) that gives customers rebates for qualifying distributed energy systems installed on the customer’s side of the utility meter. The California Solar and Storage Association is pushing for the SGIP to be extended for another five years in the form of SB 700, which was passed by the California Assembly at the end of August.

The EV garbage truck is actually a great application. All that start and stop use means a diesel garbage truck gets about 1 to 2 mpg, so it would be a huge cost savings. Speaking of cost savings, has there ever been an economic study of the effect on business of NOT spending all that money on gas and diesel? While the petroleum industry will be seriously disrupted, the general cost savings across the economy from reduced fuel costs would be like a massive tax break, especially if you consider that a non-negligible percentage of everyone’s pay check goes into paying for transportation energy in one form or another. Maybe an analysis of the effect of removing the “Energy/Life Tax” is a better way to promote EVs?

Electric vehicles are easier on the environment than their gasoline-powered counterparts, but their long charging times and the scarcity of charging stations can make life hard for the eco-conscious motorists who drive them.