Clean Power Hour

Carbon sequestration of soil goes up when you put solar on ag lands ISS is getting a new solar power plant! Erthos wants to lay solar panels right in the dirt GE says their new turbine can power the whole country... Today on the Clean Power Hour Episode 48: Solar projects that support native grasses can sequester more carbon than cropland alone. And about all that corn for ethanol. https://pv-maga...

Today on the Clean Power Hour (Ep.46): Ford launches F-150 Lightning EV truck; Community Solar Tracker by ILSR, a review; Freeing Energy Podcast by Bill Nussey - Montague’s new fav podcast; #solar project of the week - Whaling City Solar! And yes, there is an EV tax credit up to $12K is in the works. Will it happen? We hope so! And much much more clean energy news. **Subscribe to the show **Like i...

Clean Power Hour (Ep.45)  The offshore wind industry is taking off with full approval of Vineyard 1 that will power 400,000 homes when fully constructed. The 13 MW turbines by GE are the pinnacle of wind engineering might. Back on shore, hackers took down the Colonel Pipeline one of the largest fossil fuel pipelines feeding the eastern US. Meanwhile the IEA (International Energy Agency) estimates...

Today on the Clean Power Hour:  Recap of the Meyer Burger interview (launch of their hot off the presses ultra low degradation, high performance solar mods last week);   John Weaver answers important questions about HJT / TopCon / PERC solar PV technology;  Land impacts of 100% Wind and Solar are TRIVIAL according to a Carbon Tracker report that Bill McKibben also reports on. Instant permits for r...

Update from the DOE - Big plans coming to life under Granholm Ocean floating solar in Singapore Net metering under attack in CA  Biden Huge Infrastructure Plan - GND Gone wild!? PA state Gov now solar powered… nice vid  The US Dept of Energy is putting a stake in the ground for offshore wind, perovskite solar PV, next generation CSP and aiming for net zero by 2050. Today on the Clean Power Hour wi...

We launched a new segment on the Clean Power Hour today - Project of the Week. Today on the Clean Power Hour, Ep.39: 200 gigafactories are being built globally; Canary Media Launch Paying coal plants to close?; Mars helicopter is on the ground and charging; Will Tesla deliver 1M EVs in 2021? And much much more solar, storage and clean energy news with my co-host John Weaver.  SpaceX SN11 goes BOOM...

** www. CESnrg.com/podcast #Tesla over the air update https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1312500497819951105   $200 billion worth of green bonds have been issued in 2020 thus far - $50 billion in a strong September. This represents a 12% increase compared with the first nine months of 2019. And in total $1 trillion have been sold since 2007.' https://about.bnef.com/blog/record-month-shoot...

Community Solar is growing in Pennsylvania! Maybe America’s highways are an significant opportunity for solar PV The Vikings are coming for your hydro and floating solar opportunity Tax revenue from community and utility scale solar is helping rural communities It’s Day 10 of the Solar 500 Challenge - give us a thumbs up and please subscribe to the Channel! Share the channel with your friends and...

Today on the Clean Power Hour with John Weaver and Tim Montague | Ep.40:  Canadian Solar mass produces 665 W module (solar panel) Jobs Act break down  New Mexico now has community solar Kite power is approaching commercial deployment Tesla jacks the prices of solar roof Solar for 1.04¢/kWh in Saudi Arabia **Please subscribe to the channel **Likes, shares and comments are awesome - do it!  **Hit th...

There’s a new social media platform to stop climate chaos - "We don’t have time" by Ingmar Rentzhog Unions getting behind Biden’s jobs act plans Solar+wind powered hydrogen space rockets in Australia World’s largest ocean turbine - that looks like a Starwars X-Wing fighter Connecting solar from Morocco to the UK at 6.7 cents per kWh - Epic HVDC **Please subscribe to the channel **Likes,...

Today on the Clean Power Hour Ep.41: Elon Musk Beats Bezos to the Moon  Solar Powered Robot Helicopter Flies on Mars Solar Powered Greenhouses Sprouting Asparagus in France HVDC Powerline Crossing North Sea - How about the Earth?  Electricity Utilities Pushing for 80% Emissions Cut by 2030 **Please subscribe to the channel **Likes, shares and comments are awesome - do it!  **Hit that bell for the...

Gunter Erfurt, CEO and Ardes Johnson, President and GM, Americas, Meyer Burger join us for a special episode of the Clean Power Hour. We explore this new technology launch and the storied history of Meyer Burger in the solar industry. We liken Meyer Burger to the Swiss Army Knife of Solar.  High Performance, Low Carbon Solar Module Data Sheets available here:  https://www.meyerburger.com/de/instal...

Largest Rooftop Solar Project - 18 MW in Netherlands Sunrun - Vivant merger closes making the combined company 25 percent of the residential solar market King coal is falling to Crown Prince solar and storage  Two companies - Nextera and 8Minute Energy - have nearly 100 GW of wind, solar and storage in the pipeline **Please subscribe to the channel** Give us a thumbs up, and hit that bell for the...

Clean Power Hour with Tim Montague & John Weaver Ep. 7 - published Sept 1, 2020 **Rolling Blackouts in CA due to extreme heat wave… necessary or evil  https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/08/17/californias-fossil-fuel-plants-failed-us-not-solar/ **Rewiring America: A positive, comprehensive, and inclusive vision for a better future. Tech entrepreneurs Saul Griffith with Sam Calish and Laura Fraser...

Today (Sept. 30, 2020) we break down Tesla Battery Day and cover the latest in solar and storage news:  John Weaver Bought a Tesla Model Y! Jigar Shah of generate capital is coming on the Solar Podcast Oct 6 Battery day recap  “Waze” for the power grid could help unlock 500 GW of renewables Array Technologies going public - oh yea! Maine gets into the solar game  Age of renewable energy majors… Or...

Roadrunner solar project in Texas goes online at 497 MW...why does Big Solar matter to you? Largest solar project in Texas! Solar panels /modules are getting bigger but is bigger better?  NREL - the national renewable energy laboratory will tell you how solar is made and what it costs to make and install solar.  In Portugal, a new low, a solar PPA in Portugal breaks all records at 1.3 cents! And f...

The world will add 142 GW of new solar this year - Covid-19 is knocking 20 GW off the anticipated amount of solar that will get installed this year.  ​ MA Solar Market Floating solar at fort Bragg NC, the US Army's largest base. ​   RTO insider 'past 10 years in CA, average 1 GW/yr solar and 330 MW wind' to reach SB100 2045 goals - 'modelers estimate annual build rate of 2.7 GW...

Today's solar, wind and battery storage news stories: Google pledging CO2 free 24/7 Getting to a Carbon-Free Economy The urgent is attainable, and at entirely affordable cost. by Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University The incremental costs of decarbonization above our normal energy costs will amount to 1 to 2 percent of U.S. GDP per year during the period to 2050. By contrast, during World War...

Tesla battery day! (moving away from Cobalt, going long on Nickel) ​ Hands on with a solar power operating and maintenance financial and labor model Jinko sets efficiency record - 24% / mention of SunPower  Agrivoltaics - Cylindrical PV in German; a Solyndra like product Lower cost single axis tracker technology from Alion Energy - built in Albedo increaser Tesla 10 MW/~22-27MWh residential powerw...

On today's Clean Power Hour with Tim Montague and John Weaver we dive into solar pv news stories about solar, solar plus storage, grid scale batteries and the future of solar and storage.  1. Vistra has been granted a permit for a 1500 MW ESS facility in northern CA.  2.  Montague shows off a NexTracker NX Gemini single axis tracker project 3.  Australia building world's largest solar pl...

Today on the Clean  Power Hour, Ep. 8: Sept 8, 2020 Tesla launches 2 dollar/watt solar Solar panels are growing larger - longer and heavier Illinois’ Governor Pritzker issues 8 Point Plan and 100% RPS A closer look at JA Solar’s new 785/810 W panel series According to the product sheet, the new series has dimensions of 2,219×1,765x40mm and weighs 43.5kg. Efficiency reportedly ranges from 20.1-20.8...

On this episode of the Clean Power Hour (published July 21, 2020) with co-hosts Tim Montague and John Weaver we discuss site selection criteria for commercial rooftop solar (C&I solar; behind the meter solar PV): roof condition (less than 10 years preferred), available ground if ground mount; electric load vs. available space for solar, grid infrastructure, and how a facility owner will evalua...

Today on the Clean Power Hour this week we talk about: 1)We tour one of John's rooftop commercial solar projects; 2)FERC Order 841 and battery storage regulations; an investors view of a solar stock (Ameresco); 3)the growing problem of E-waste as the solar panel avalanche continues to grow. 4)Coal power plants are old and getting older and this is why so many of them are being retired (https:...

The Bigbox Solar Bonanza - Ep.4 of the Clean Power Hour. Breaking down the latest news and information about the commercial industrial solar industry. Please subscribe and give us a thumbs up! Hit that bell. Tell us what you like and want to see more of and share the podcast with your friends. Let's grow solar!  Today on the Clean Power Hour we give a behind the scenes look at a rooftop solar...

AZ grid scale battery blow up: https://commercialsolarguy.com/2020/08/10/a-lithium-ion-battery-burnt-four-firefighters-were-knocked-unconscious-a-timeline-and-recommendations/ Single Axis Trackers for rooftop solar: https://www.pointloadpower.com/articles Send us your suggestions for topics and technology you would like to see us cover on our weekly run-down of the latest about the solar, battery...