The market for solar power is growing faster than ever, but profitability has been lagging. The keys to improvement are better capital and operational efficiency. Solar energyis becoming a force to be reckoned with. Last year, China and the United States installed a record 15 and 7.5 gigawatts...
A decade ago, during the first wave of the energy transition, businesses developing commercial-scale solar components, biofuels, and battery-storage systems faced similar challenges. A key lesson from this first wave was that market forces on their own weren’t enough to he...
The European nation’s energy revolution has made it a leader in replacing nukes and fossil fuels with wind and solar technology.
Unlike a fixed rate, your unit rate on a variable tariff will rise and fall based on market activity, namely wholesale energy prices. This means your unit rate will vary throughout your contract. This could end up costing you more or less money in bills than a fixed-rate contract, dependi...
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It turns out that there are many different things you can do with two pieces of glass, and these things can have a big effect on you when you use the lenses. As you will see in this article, there really is a difference between the various sunglasses you'll find out there. There ...
Unbiased Energy Advisors ready to help What does ROI mean? You may have encountered the term ROI (return on investment) while looking at investing, retirement, or even solar articles. It's a big buzzword and one of the most widely used financial metrics. ROI is a ratio that compares the ...
Each of the renewable energy bases now has a capacity of 10 million-kW. Figure 2: Qingyu UHVDC power transmission line, spanning 1,563 km, lights up the Central Plains with clean energy from the plateau in northwest China Ten years ago, China's inverter market was dominated by central ...