Green Energy Times

The electricity generated by the system will offset 100% of the cost of electricity that the Town of Groton pays Green Mountain Power each year, and 40% of the energy needs of Blue Mountain School. They would them pay AllEarth 19¢ per Kilowatt hour generated by the system. Green Mountain Power will credit the Town and BMU 19.2¢, plus 6¢ for the solar incentive.

$5.7 million in federal funding to help Vermont households install solar thermal and solar hot water technologies and utilize “smart meter” systems.

Five agencies in Vermont will receive about $4.7 million to provide solar thermal and solar hot water technologies for Vermont families…

The standing room only crowd heard evidence on how Feed-In Tariffs provide tremendous economic benefits. FITs are fixed price, long-term contracts…

Regulators could block PACE at the end of the trial period if the results proved unsatisfactory

If solar PV in Los Angeles is so attractive, why then is the FiT target so low?

The FIT Coalition believes the right policies will result in a timely transition to renewable energy while yielding tremendous economic benefits, including new job creation, increased tax revenue, and the establishment of an economic foundation that will drive growth…

Italy Surpasses USA in Solar PV – Installing More Every Two Months than California in an Entire Year

Williamstown, Vermont 16-acre property site is slated to become the largest solar farm in the state.…… a 2.1 megawatt solar farm with 8,948 solar panels

A key insight of the study is that wind’s apparent drawbacks as a power source — it only blows intermittently, and in many places blows harder at night than during the day — could actually be used to the advantage of power companies, with one condition. If power grids…