MINNETONKA, Minn., Sept. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pineapple Energy Inc. (“Pineapple,” “Pineapple Energy” or the “Company”), a leading provider of sustainable solar energy and back-up power to households and small businesses, announced today that Eric Ingvaldson will become the Company’s Chief Financial Officer effective October 10, 2022. He succeeds Mark Fandrich, who resigned in […]
May 9 of last year should have been a typical day for solar power in West Texas. But around 11:21 a.m., something went wrong. Large amounts of solar capacity went offline unexpectedly, apparently triggered by a fault in the grid connected to a natural gas plant in Odessa, according to the Electric Reliability Council of […]
A potential charge to connect rooftop solar systems to California’s power grid risks spurring more state residents to want to leave it, says the head of America’s largest rooftop installer. “That’s a perilous path,” Mary Powell, chief executive of Sunrun Inc., said of the possibility that state regulators impose a monthly connection charge as California […]
A lack of international collaboration risks undermining efforts to decarbonise polluting sectors and could lead to decades of delay on the road towards net zero emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday. At last November’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, 45 countries vowed to work together on the deployment of green tech across a […]
Do solar farms damage the soil? Only a minute of aluminum is released into the soil from the solar system, and it has not been shown to have negative effects on the earth. Although solar panels are safe to have near crops, they are also a great way to help prevent soil degradation while using […]
The Calverton Solar Energy Center, Riverhead, NY (photo: National Grid) This week, thousands of leaders are in New York for Climate Week 2022. While the presentations and networking are happening in New York City, the action is taking place to the east on Long Island. As more clean energy solutions like offshore wind, solar, battery […]
