Jim Pierobon is Founder and principal writer of The Energy Fix. He is a policy, marketing and social media strategist who has reported on, testified and consulted about smarter grids, cyber-security as it affects the power grid, fossil fuel shortages, price spikes, energy efficiency and the rise and fall -- and the rise again of nuclear and renewable energy sources.Is Obama backpedaling on emissions reductions and clean energy?
It took almost two months for inquiring minds to discover it, but since then questions abound: what should be made of the text changes this summer on the White House web pages devoted to energy and the environment regarding clean energy spurred by a limit on greenhouse gas emissions? As first unearthed by the Breakthrough [...]
Watch a 22 kW solar system ‘sprout’ on this church roof
“Let the sun shine in”
RIP for FITs, or NOT?
Americans don’t have to look very far these days to see the role a Feed-in Tariff can play in jump-starting purchases – and the economic and environmental benefits – of solar electric / photovoltaic (PV) systems. Customers signing onto a FIT invest in their own PV systems to generate their own electricity and sell energy [...]