{"id":13996,"date":"2013-07-07T22:24:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T19:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/add-energy.ro\/top-50-solar-energy-stories-of-the-year-part-two-11-20\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T22:24:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T19:24:03","slug":"top-50-solar-energy-stories-of-the-year-part-two-11-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/add-energy.ro\/en\/top-50-solar-energy-stories-of-the-year-part-two-11-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of The Year (Part two: #11-20)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t12. China & Japan Likely To Lead World In Solar Power Installations In 2013<\/a>
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\n\tImage Credit:\u00a0CoCreatr<\/a> (some rights reserved)\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to strong solar policies, China and Japan<\/a> are likely to pass up Germany, Italy, the US, and others to take the top spots in new solar power installations.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Japanese banks are predicting that the Japanese solar market will be worth $19 billion within the next few years<\/a>. Within just 9 months of the implementation of its solar feed-in tariffs, Japan added over one gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) of solar power capacity<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 China is targeting 10 gigawatts of new solar power capacity in 2013<\/a>. In early January, it approved rooftop solar incentives<\/a> for its residents.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t13. California Shared Renewables Bills Moving Forward
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\n\tImage Credit: California Shared Renewables<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of people can go solar today and get a very good return on their investment, while also feeling great that they are doing something to help protect our climate, air, and water. However, many people cannot. Have a roof covered by trees? Rent your home? Live in an apartment building? You know what I\u2019m talking about.\u00a0California is no exemption to this problem, and with its strong and successful California Solar Initiative (CSI) sunsetting, renewable energy leaders in the state have been looking to jump to the next step of the solar revolution by making solar power (and wind power) a possibility for people in homes like those mentioned above. The effort to offer such an option is running under the name \u201cShared Renewables<\/a>.\u201d A couple of bills aimed at advancing this concept \u2014 SB 43 and AB 1014<\/a> \u2013\u00a0are moving through\u00a0California\u2019s legislative process<\/a>. The website for the campaign was launched in March<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t14. 39% Of California Electric Vehicle Owners Have Solar Power Systems<\/a>
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\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A recent survey by the\u00a0California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE)\u00a0found that 39% of plug-in electric vehicle owners in California owned solar panel systems, and another 17% were planning to go solar within the next year. This shows not only the great synergy between these two clean technologies, but also that electric vehicle growth is likely much greener than we realize.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t15. Los Angeles Launches Solar Feed-in Tariff, Gets Flood Of Applications<\/a>
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\n\tSolar panels and sunset in LADWP district<\/a> by waltarrrrr (some rights reserved)\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feed-in tariffs have driven most of the solar power growth in the world. Yet, they are not widely used in the U.S. However, the\u00a0Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) recently implemented a feed-in tariff (FiT) for solar power<\/a>, and it has already spurred a good bit of solar demand.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t16. Shells Forecasts Solar As #1 Source Of Energy Within Decades<\/a>
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\n\tSource: Shell\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In one of the two future energy scenarios Shell released this year (the New Lens Scenarios), the company projected that solar would become the largest source of energy by 2070. (Note: according to many, it was still being pessimistic about solar\u2019s likely growth.)\n<\/p>\n

\n\t17. Colorado Solar Industry Association Lays Out Plan For 1 Million Solar Roofs<\/a>
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\n\tImage Credit: Namaste Solar<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trying to get the solar ball rolling faster in Colorado, the Colorado Solar Industries Association unveiled a one million solar roofs plan for Colorado earlier this year. We think it\u2019s a good one.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t18. EnergySage Launches \u201cExpedia Of Solar Power\u201d \u2014 Comparison Solar Shopping Website<\/a>
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\n\tScreenshot of EnergySage website.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Making shopping for solar easier, and making solar installation bids more competitive, will go a long way towards increasing solar power growth in the US and bringing down prices (in particular, some of the \u201csoft costs\u201d of going solar). EnergySage, which\u00a0won a $500,000 SunShot Initiative grant from the US Department of Energy in 2012, in February launched a solar power comparison shopping site aimed at doing just that. We think it has a lot of promise.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t19. 1BOG Tweaks Its Model To Launch \u201cKayak Of Solar Power\u201d<\/a>
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\n\t\"1BOG<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OK, you can switch the analogies and make 1BOG the Expedia of solar power and EnergySage the Kayak of solar power (or my favorite, Orbitz) \u2014 it doesn\u2019t really matter, since the point is that both companies are now offering a solar power comparison shopping experience that should help bring down the costs of going solar while also making it easier for customers to navigate the whole process. Notably, for now, the two companies operate in different regions. However, I think they will soon start overlapping, and perhaps collaborating?\n<\/p>\n

\n\t20. Belgium Policy A First: Better ROI For Low-Income Families Who Go Solar<\/a>
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\n\t\"Belgium<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Something you hear over and over again is that solar power is primarily for the wealthy. While it is actually increasingly for the middle class, thanks to falling solar power costs, there\u2019s no avoiding the fact that it is substantially harder for low-income families to go solar. However, a region of Belgium has decided to change that.\u00a0Wallonia, \u201cthe predominantly French-speaking southern region of Belgium\u201d (according to our friend\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a>), has set up a solar support mechanism (called Qualiwatt) that provides a higher\/faster return on investment (ROI) for low-income households than for middle- or high-income households\u2026 not that the middle- or high-income households get a poor ROI. (By the way, Belgium is currently getting 14% of household electricity consumption from solar power<\/a>.)\n<\/p>\n

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