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We love creative ways to install solar.  Ever hear of Floatavotaics?  It is one solution to lowering the cost of mounting solar panels, now by far the largest cost in making an installation.  Floating PV systems use solar arrays that float on bodies of water, such as...

Networking Session Was Fun On September 28 we held another informal networking session at Lucid Winery (1015 R Street).  Folks had a number of lively discussions around the room…and enjoyed the drinks and pizza.  Topics included:  Welcoming some recent transplants to...

It has been nearly 50 years since California began in earnest to eliminate waste in the use of energy in the home with the adoption of energy-efficient building codes and appliance efficiency standards.  In those five decades, those codes and standards have been...

Here’s one we didn’t see coming:  Using the concrete slab on which your house is built as a 10 kWh storage unit at almost no additional cost.  How?  MIT researchers say to add carbon when it is poured.  The carbon creates its own electrode net.  It is not really a...

Putting Level 2 EV chargers in multifamily housing is one of the hottest areas of attention in the whole EV industry. A lot of people live in multifamily housing and want to do the majority of their charging there. Check out this article on all the options being...

Sometimes you just have to see a technology to “get it”. That’s what happened when we made the journey to the backwoods of El Dorado County to see what CR Flight was doing at its development shop. The article we published on them in April of 2021, based on an...

Back in November, we alerted you to a potentially significant development in non-lithium long-duration storage.  One of the companies was Form Energy, which based its battery on oxidizing and reducing iron. Oxidized iron is, of course, also known as rust.  Clearly,...