Month: March 2015

Solar-generated electricity pollutes neither air nor water. Solar energy does also not result in emission of dangerous carbon dioxide, which causes adverse climate change, except during the making of the solar panels. A solar panel’s land use impact is practically nonexistent since they are placed on roofs. Additionally, solar power creates more jobs per unit of energy…

Recently, Minnesota residents participated in a community solar project. During the initial phase of development experts only expected this project to produce  around 100 megawatts of power but to their surprise the project received quadruple the amount.    Shared solar power is a promising field but, up until now there are very few states that have…

Unless you have been living under a rock, it is unlikely that you have heard all the debate the subject of renewable energy has sparked.  So, what is renewable energy? Renewable energy is energy that comes from resources which are naturally replenished such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves and geothermal heat. It replaces conventional…

Over the past several decades, people have slowly started to show an increasing interest in renewable energy. Human activity has taken its toll on nature, and the climate changes certainly testify to that: for this reason, we have tried to replace the traditional energy sources based on fossil materials with modern and renewable sources, such…