Solar Equipment Prices Have Hit Bottom!!! By Nathaniel Allen Driving to work daily I see more and more solar companies on the road with trucks full of new hires and solar equipment. Solar installations in the SF and Monterey Bay Areas are skyrocketing. Why? What has...
By Nathaniel Allen It is easy to forget the importance of hiring local companies. As many people gravitate to big box retailers like Home Depot or national service companies like Comcast, we seem to forget small businesses in the United States are fundamental to our...
Solar power plants in Germany produced 22 gigawatts (GW) of electricity per hour in June 2014. 22 GW of energy is equal to 20 Nuclear Power plants at full capacity. Ponder that feat; 20 nuclear power plants worth the energy produced with solar PV in Germany, a...
Local Food Local Power by David Stearns What do organic vegetables, hormone free meats, and local solar power have in common? They’re all available at New Leaf Community Markets because New Leaf customers understand the importance of responsibly produced products. New...
Solar Scaring Big Utilities by James Allen The explosion of solar is scaring big utilities like PG&E, and they are organizing to try to undermine distributed solar energy. However, California recently passed AB 327 to preserve Net Energy Metering (NEM) for all CA...