As India races towards an aspirational 100 GW of solar power, there are some serious challenges that lie in the way. One of the key challenges is the growth of the distributed or the rooftop solar sector. While the government wants…
Solar Asset Management – An Introduction – and a North American Event for the Same!
Many of Solar Mango’s clients who are just about getting into installing solar power plants are already keen on knowing how to manage the operations & management of these power plants. Most of these folks have in mind only O&M, and…
71 MW Wind-Solar Hybrid Power Plant in Arizona with Solar Tracking! Wow, that’s Cool!
I was quite excited to read about a rather unique combination of renewable energy technologies “Array Technologies(ATI) has announced the commissioning and completion of the tracking system for the 71 MW Red Horse 2 combined wind and solar project, which…
How Can US Grow to 250 GW of Solar by 2025, from 25 GW Right Now?
The US has about 25 GW of solar PV installed capacity as we wind down on 2015. 25 GW – that’s considerable, but relatively a fairly insignificant amount considering that the total US electricity installed capacity (from all sources) is about 1…
Solar Increases Property Valuation of Homes, Says Berkeley Study
Every Watt of solar PV you install on your house adds $4 to your house value. according to a recent study done by U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and a home appraisal expert. Now, that’s not…
Installing a Rooftop Solar System – A User’s Perspective
Here’s a nice and detailed news report/perspective report on how a US resident went about installing a rooftop solar system on his house. What I like his taking time to detail each and every aspect of the technical, operational and…
1 Million Solar Homes in the US Soon
By Feb 2016, the United States would have hit an important landmark in solar power – it will have 1 million houses with solar panels on their rooftops, says this news report. There are about 125 million households in the…
Solar Cost Comparison Tool for the US Rooftop Solar Sector – SolarIQ
The web platform SolarIQ provides a useful cost comparison tool for the US residential solar market. By comparing actual sales costs of solar systems in your area, the tool shows you what you should be paying. They also make sure you know…
Virtual Net Metering – A Really Disruptive Concept for Rooftop Solar
It was perhaps about 2 weeks back that I was sitting in a prominent apartment complex in Hyderabad, where one of the association members, an eco-conscious senior citizen was keen on going solar. The apartment complex was fairly large, and had…
Super Low Solar Prices Worldwide in 2015 – Lowest at 3.87 cents/kWh
I had written some time back about a price of Rs 4.63 per kWh (about 7 US cents) for solar power in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and had also wondered out loud whether such a price was indeed sustainable.…
