The conversations about big government and government subsidies to renewable energy certainly need to contain considerations of all the fossil fuel subsides around the world.



Fossil Fuel Subsidies Six Times More Than Renewable Energy (Bloomberg):

Fossil-fuel consumers worldwide received about six times more government subsidies than were given…

Dennis Derr found PVPower online. He wanted to build a ground-mounted PV system to power his Acton, CA home. We were running a special on Fluitecnik panels. After a bit of consulting with our head engineer, Chuck VonDrehle, he decided to purchase some.



The system didn’t work at first; the power output was much too low. After several calls to Chuck, PVPower and Fluitecnik were able to work together to provide a solution to Dennis. This is from an email from Dennis:



“Well…

There has been a very rapid expansion in the solar industry. The industry is struggling to cut costs and become more efficient, and some growing pains are inevitable. As the price of solar panels has fallen, consolidation and a few failures have already happen and there will be more. For long-term alternative energy growth this is not all a bad thing.  Hopefully, the strong will survive and become even more efficient. …

At least 773 Megawatts of solar panels will be put on rooftops across America as a result of The DOE’s new $1.4 Billion loan guarantee.  Up to 10,000 jobs will be created in 28 states in what some solar financing experts are calling “a game-changer for distributed solar.”

This massive series of rooftop solar systems, called Project Amp, will take about four years to complete, and occupy about 750 rooftops nationwide.  Bank…