South Dakota has some innovators taking advantage of solar power, but we're still behind the rest of the country in squeezing electricity from all that free nuclear fusion from heaven. Nerd Wallet ranks states for residential solar energy based on…
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It's not a power revolution yet, but South Dakotans are showing that solar power isn't just for sunny California and Arizona. First, near Pierre, one family traded propane for solar-boosted electric heat: ...one customer with a larger array of 15…
The Solar Foundation has mapped jobs created by the solar power industry in each state: Sunny California leads the nation in solar jobs, followed by Arizona. One would expect lots of solar power jobs in such sunny places. But #3…
Spring hasn't felt terribly sunny here in South Dakota, but it has for the solar power industry. The Solar Energy Industries Association notes with pride that every megawatt of new electricity generation capacity built in March comes from solar energy.…
I'm on the Dakota Rural Action committee that brought you the net-metering bill this Legislative session. Net metering (paying people for the useful surplus power that they produce with renewable power devices) is one way to promote small-scale, community-based energy…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says the United States added 433 megawatts of new electrical production capacity last month. Every erg-per-second of that juice came from renewable energy installations. 300 megawatts of wind power, 133 megawatts of solar power—all green.…
I can think of only two logical explanations for Mitt Romney's reiteration of the GOP's Drill Baby Drill energy plan: He just got some big donations from Big Oil executives. He's a catastrophic millennialist: Jesus is coming, so why save…
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has released an analysis of how much renewable energy we could produce in each state if we really tried. According to the data, the U.S. could generate over 450,000 terawatt-hours of renewable electricity. Compare that…