Tag: ROOFTOP SOLAR

January 17, 2023

With the adoption of electric vehicles, rooftop solar systems, battery storage systems, and smart appliances, the role of the electricity consumer is evolving. Now capable of providing services to support local grid operations, consumers are gradually emerging as important partners […]

February 1, 2022

California has been a national leader in meeting solar energy targets for fighting climate change, but that could change in the near future. A key part of solar’s success has been widespread adoption of rooftop systems by forward-thinking homeowners. Given […]

September 22, 2021

The report, Realising the Potential of Customer-Sited Solar, states that there is a need for careful policy design to unlock the full potential of the market. With the right regulation and tariff design in place, the rooftop solar market has […]

September 30, 2020

California has more distributed energy resources (DERs) than any other state, pressuring it to find ways to integrate them into the grid. The interconnection rules that tell developers of rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries and electric vehicle chargers how much time […]

January 3, 2020

Predicting the future is easy; getting the exact timing is very hard — and especially with all the new technologies and requirements facing the solar and storage industry. So this year I’m giving myself a whole decade to get these […]

November 21, 2019

Fall earnings season brought a barrage of new data on the performance of rooftop solar installers, since all the large national players are publicly traded. For one thing, the national residential solar company is very much alive, contrary to fears […]

September 13, 2019

Net metering continues to be a point of contention among utilities, ratepayer advocates and solar proponents. The practice is intended to incentivize solar buildouts by compensating rooftop solar owners for the excess power they supply to the grid, but opponents […]

September 25, 2018

Solar photovoltaic technology is getting cheaper, more efficient and more resilient all the time. But it still doesn’t make a good replacement for asphalt. After years of trial projects, a handful of “solar roadway” projects around the world are revealing […]