Energy and agricultural officials, developers and others met in Freeport to begin looking at how Maine can establish small wind projects, comparable to rooftop solar panels.

Twenty-four years since Wyoming enacted statewide net metering, just one home in every 132 has its own solar or wind power, and among businesses, only a hundred or so do. But opinions are changing.

Lawmakers have tried for years to reduce what solar users can earn from selling excess power to the grid, but the court invalidated one utility’s low payments.

It’s easy to notice that homes, businesses and factories in this region have joined the movement toward small-scale solar power. As much as we’ve made the move, we’re still behind the ...

This $119.99 100-watt solar panel from Thunderbolt Solar features a monocrystalline structure, making it more efficient than amorphous solar panels. It has a max current of 6.2 amps, 18 DC volts ...

Small-scale solar — the majority of which is installed on roofs — produced 10 times as much electricity nationwide in 2022 as it did 10 years earlier, enough to power 5.7 million typical ...

Solar power is key to addressing climate change. Learn how SACE promotes rooftop and large-scale solar to reduce pollution ...

Under the shared solar program, community members can subscribe and save 10% to 15% percent on their Appalachian power bill, said Jessie Robinson, senior project developer for New Leaf Energy Inc ...

Businesses make up 80 percent of small-scale solar capacity in ... are getting electricity for the very first time via solar-panel kits, ... runs on solar power will also need something ...

Solar projects can generally be placed in two buckets: they are either large utility-scale ground-mounted projects connected to the grid, or they are smaller, distributed projects, typically 20 MW ...

OLYMPIA — A House bill proposes electric utilities get more power from small solar projects, likely increasing electric rates, but preserving farmland. House Bill 1847 would require utilities to ...

“Small-scale panels have benefited from the same economies of scale that China’s solar manufacturing system has at its disposal,” he said. In the early 2000s, Germany encouraged people to ...