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Solar: Should Utility Customers Subsidize Solar Homes?

in News on July 6, 2009 at 1:55 pm PT

Here’s a tricky question: should the average electric utility customer pay higher rates so that people who install solar systems can sell power back to the grid? That question is at the heart of a story today in the L.A. Times about whether to expand a program under which California utilities buy back power from customers with solar panels.

Smartestphone?

in News on March 6, 2008 at 12:00 pm PT

PG&E: The "E" Stands for Excre … Never Mind.

in News on March 6, 2008 at 12:47 am PT

The future of renewable energy is anaerobic manure digestion? That statement sounds like a bunch of BS (sorry, had to), but according to utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PCG) and BioEnergy Solutions, it’s anything but. Soon California will be lighting and heating its homes with power derived from cow dung. Yesterday PG&E and BioEnergy Solutions [...]

PG&E: The “E” Stands for Excre … Never Mind.

in News on March 6, 2008 at 12:47 am PT

The future of renewable energy is anaerobic manure digestion? That statement sounds like a bunch of BS (sorry, had to), but according to utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PCG) and BioEnergy Solutions, it’s anything but. Soon California will be lighting and heating its homes with power derived from cow dung. Yesterday PG&E and BioEnergy Solutions [...]