Solar Microgrid
Stories about the decentralized renewable energy future
Bringing People to the Power
Bringing People to the Power
The prospects of Elon Musk’s SolarCity colossus are in a state of constant flux, with announcements of pathbreaking technological advances…one month and record-setting losses the next. Musk’s fortunes mirror instabilities in the energy market as a whole, where volatile oil and gas prices have reduced once-solid bets on unconventional extraction practices in the Canadian tar sands and American fracking fields to something far less certain. ¶ If today’s energy markets are hazy, the long-term picture is less so. With the exigencies of climate change bearing down and the efficiencies of solar and other renewables rising, the world…Aaron BartleyJan 6