When special interest groups try to help… they’re typically trying to help themselves. In the case of solar, when special interest groups try to help, they end up hurting the entire industry more often than not. It’s because they’re only thinking of themselves. Take for example the first occasion in 2008. The law I Read more about When special interest groups try to help (1 of 2)[…]
The sun is an immediately available, unlimited source of perfect, renewable energy. It has and always will play the most vital role in keeping our ecosystem alive and functioning. The power of the sun is there every day, available to all, completely underutilized, and completely free. Our society’s ability to function lies in the hands Read more about Why YOU Need Solar Backup Power[…]
It’s time to laugh – Are you too dumb for solar? You just may be. Here are a list of possible clues that we’ve come up with over the years, in no particular order. 1. You’re looking at leasing your solar power system when you call. 2. You’re still using an “AOL” email address when you Read more about Time to laugh – Are you too dumb for solar?[…]
Hopefully you are familiar with this scam by now. If not, the background story is here. You are solicited by phone or at your door to take advantage of a “government program” that pays for solar and energy improvements for your home. It sounds good and you want to take advantage of this free money from Read more about UPDATE – Scammers packaging solar with Energy Efficiency (GEE)[…]
Great article today from the Baton Rouge Business Report… https://www.businessreport.com/article/solar-eclipses-shale-boom-fastest-growing-us-power-source ___________________________________________________ Solar eclipses shale boom as fastest-growing US power source Daily Report Staff May 27, 2015 Move over shale. Bloomberg reports the sun is now the fastest-growing source of U.S. electricity. Solar power capacity in the U.S. has jumped 20-fold since 2008 as companies including Read more about Solar leads shale boom as fastest-growing US power source[…]
Do your part to save the solar tax credit! If you heard that the Louisiana Solar Tax credits are about to end July 1, then you heard what will happen if Representative Ted James House Bill 510 passes. If you want that to happen, then do nothing. If you want to help save the solar tax credit for Read more about Save the solar tax credit[…]
This morning I was asked to respond to the claim solar tax credits are a bad thing for our state and our country. Bill Profita (Talk 107.3 FM) invited me to respond to the comments by David Williams, the President of the “Taxpayer Protection Alliance” out of Washington, DC. His focus is on government waste, Read more about “Taxpayer Protection Alliance” against solar – Shaw responds[…]
Louisiana’s Limit on Local Power is going to kill our future of renewable energy. Louisiana has gone from the solar envy of other states with our “best in the nation” 50% refundable solar tax credit to the “nearly worst in the nation” .5% Net Metering Cap. A Net Metering Cap means that if you take all of Read more about Louisiana’s Limit on Local Power[…]
Problems with PACE Financing Background: PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) was a copycat bill from a Berkley, California program that’s intention was to open up additional financing options for solar power systems in Louisiana. In 2009, our legislature agreed to allow individual cities/parishes to form financing districts to permit PACE programs. PACE ran into an Read more about Problems with PACE Financing[…]
(Read part 1 of 2 here) Soon after the word got out in 2008 about our “best in the nation” solar tax credit, people began opening solar companies in the state. After a few companies popped up, an individual without a solar company, solar training, or even solar on their house, wanted to start his own solar group. Read more about When special interest groups try to help (2 of 2)[…]
GSS is featured in World Of Renewables, January 2015 issue, as an integrator of storage systems. As a long time integrator of battery backup systems we specifically use Outback Power. For more information and to read the articles click here: world of renewables – jan15
So you want to go off-grid? Here’s a great article in Home Power Magazine. http://www.homepower.com/articles/solar-electricity/design-installation/so-you-want-go-grid?v=print
The future of net metering in Louisiana has been in turmoil now for two years. Unfortunately for solar, a couple of our Public Service Commissioners decided that our 0.5% net metering threshold (a point to review how its working), became a hard cap. It doesn’t matter that it is unreasonable. California is where we look for the future Read more about The Future of Net Metering in Louisiana[…]
I will be the first to recommend combining energy efficiency with solar to lower your electric bill. However there is a difference between the two. Solar comes with hefty tax credits (currently 80%) to lower the initial cost. Energy efficiency improvements do not receive a tax credit. If a company offers to combine these Read more about Beware – Scammers Packaging Solar With Energy Efficiency[…]
Home Solar Beats S&P 500! – Single-Family Residential Solar Power Investment Beats S&P 500 in Most US Cities Pierre Bull, NRDC January 19, 2015 If I were a newsboy, here’s the headline I’d shout out on the street corner this afternoon: “Single-family solar power beats Standard & Poor’s 500, in 46 out of 50 American Read more about Home Solar Beats S&P 500![…]