Local utility quietly clouds solar future
UPDATE: Lafayette restores smart solar policy Back in 2012, my family installed a new solar power system on our home. Federal tax credits coupled with Louisiana's solar power tax credits meant we spent…
North Carolina's Secret Agenda to Destroy Renewable Energy
Jennifer Rennicks, SACE's NC Liaison and Director of Policy and Communications, contributed to this post. North Carolina has been a lightning rod for controversy over the past few months with its passage…
Super Tuesday: Why are conservatives crazy in love with THIS type of energy?
Conservatives get a bad rap for hating renewable energy. But new polling out by the conservative group, ClearPath, show what types of energy republican voters really want and with Super Tuesday upon…
Dirt cheap renewables beating fossil fuels on price
A new analysis shows that wind energy and solar power are more affordable than ever. Every year, Lazard Associates publishes its Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis on different types of power plants including…
Study Proves Fossil Fuels Way Worse for Land Use than Renewables
A new, peer-reviewed article published in the scientific journal SCIENCE estimates that 3 million hectares of land (that's 11,583 square miles, or 30,000 square kilometers) have been lost due to oil and gas…
Corporate Social Responsibility with Renewable Power, is Coca-Cola Next?
Corporations around the country and globe are finding new ways to comply with their own, voluntary and self-imposed Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals. CSR is frequently explained as the "triple-bottom-line" or "3P…
We Need to Support All Types of Solar: Utility-Scale, Rooftop, Community, and More
This guest blog was written by Jim Marston, the founding director of the Texas office of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). The original post was posted on May 20 and can be found here. Solar energy is…
Powering Through Key West Hurricanes at Ruben Valdez’s Solar Home
This guest blog is the fifth in a series on diversity in the solar energy field in Florida and was written for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy by Alissa Jean Schafer, Marketing…
Florida Can Save Money Under the Clean Power Plan
This blog was written by Pamela Rivera at the Natural Resources Defense Council and originally appeared on NRDC's Switchboard blog. You can find the original post here. Earlier this summer, the Environmental…
Rural Clean Energy Awards and Grants Announced
The USDA recently announced major new investments in clean, rural renewable energy and energy efficiency that will deliver significant benefits to our region and throughout the country. Here we will share those…