The collective US solar brain trust gathered at the Solar Solutions Conference in Memphis, TN presented by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Tennessee Solar Institute, April 10-11. The big news? Technological innovations have propelled solar prices down. Today’s solar market is one of the most attractive to investors — not only is it actually “bankable,” [...]
Sixteen anxious and diligent new Solar Technicians graduated Friday 2-Mar-12 from an 8-week course at the CRC Institute in Jacksonville, Florida. They got certificates of technical training, are ready for the LEED Green Associate professional credential exam and got an important card proving their OSHA training from the National Safety Council. They are ready to [...]
This blog was co-written by SACE’s Renewable Energy Director, Maria Hubert. After a year of working hard on energy efficiency improvements, our Knoxville, TN office is now officially solar-powered! KUB, our local utility, just put in our meter and we are pumping clean, safe solar-powered electrons onto the grid. It took just over a [...]
Georgia Power and Southern Company are up to their dirty tricks again, this time blocking the development of clean renewable energy and using their monopoly power to hold Georgia economic development back! A bipartisan bill in Georgia that seeks to expand consumer choice and economic competition in power production and remove artificial barriers to renewable [...]