Concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere

Trim Your Waste-Line this Holiday Season

Mark Morgan

Marc Morgan

The holiday season is upon us. It is a wonderful time of sharing meals, giving gifts and decorating our homes. It is a time when we think less of ourselves and more of others. It is a generous and giving time of year.

With all […]

Light Your World with a Gift of Solar!

Luci original lantern

N.R. Mallery, Publisher G.E.T.

I first experienced some simple, little waterproof inflatable solar lights one summer at SolarFest. They were all over the place, and everyone was loving them, throwing them, twirling with them and they were all over the festival. They caught my attention, and I have […]

Late News on Energy and Storage

George Harvey

Three noteworthy developments came into the news in the last few days of October, which taken together may show a picture of things to come. It is a future in which natural gas may become increasingly irrelevant.

To start with, the cost of offshore wind power has […]

The Biomass Controversy: Are there Options?

Carbon cycle. NASA image.

George Harvey

Dartmouth College has committed to being 100% free of fossil fuel use, and so it is examining a switch from heating with number 6 oil to use of biomass, which would allow it to continue to use most of the current heat distribution […]

A Radical Idea to Get a High-Renewable Electric Grid

Build Way More Solar and Wind Than Needed

Wind turbines above San Gorgonio Pass, known as Banning Pass, in Riverside County, California. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith.

Richard Perez and Karl Rabago

The famous inventor Edwin Land said, “It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.” He […]

Safety in Battery Storage Options

RELiON® 48 Volt 300 Ah lithium iron phosphate LiFePO₄ battery (RB48V300L)

Danielle Fergeson

Safety is a full-fledged design feature with lithium batteries, and for good reason. As we’ve all seen, the chemistry and energy density that allows lithium-ion batteries to work so well also makes them flammable, so when the batteries malfunction, they […]

Common Energy: Fulton County Community Solar

Oppenheim solar farm ribbon cutting: Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of Little Falls and Dolgeville along with their troop leaders celebrate the ribbon cutting of the Oppenheim solar farm. From L-R: Andrew Bernstein, Kearsarge Energy; Chad Handy, landowner; Pastor Tom Jones, Bethesda Christian Fellowship; NYS Senator Jim Tedisco; Malcolm Bliss, Common Energy; Cindy […]

Grid-Tied Solar with Lithium Battery Backup

Energy Independence in East Jewett, New York

George Harvey

We do not see grid-tied solar systems with battery backup very often, and so they seem especially interesting when we do. High Peaks Solar, an installer based in Wynantskill, New York, brought one to our attention. It is […]

The Development of a Community Solar Project

Clifton Park, New York

At the ribbon cutting (L to R) Peter Bardunias, Southern Saratoga Chamber of Commerce (SSCC); Patricia Fahey, NYS Assembly Member; Mary Beth Walsh, NYS Assembly Member; Mark Richardson, CEO U.S. Light Energy; Scott Wiater, CEO Standard Solar, Inc.; James Tedisco, NYS Senator; Linda Tepper, Tepper Group and SSCC Member

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Solarize Kearsarge Nears Completion

Nancy Teach at home. Photo courtesy Granite State Solar.

George Harvey

As Green Energy Times goes to press, Granite State Solar (GSS) is finishing the last installations of the Solarize Kearsarge Campaign, in the area of Kearsarge, New Hampshire. This is timely, as it means customers are able to […]