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A recent enquiry has highlighted the need for all members, and in fact all energy consumers, to regularly check the statements they receive from their energy providers. Things change over time and the retailers will sometimes try to "adjust" their plans to keep pace with industry trends without sufficiently highlighting the impact those changes may have on your bill. Energy contracts, like those for all supplies in a contestable market, are dynamic. What was best 12 months ago, may no longer be the best. The terms of your contract may have been changed (most retail contracts contain a clause allowing the retailer to do so), or something may have gone wrong in the administration of the contract, or as in my recent example, during the signing up for the contract in the first place. Read your bills! If you don't understand them, ask someone you trust to go over them with you. If you don't check that you're getting everything you're paying for, then it is unlikely that anyone else will check for you...
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I have no idea why people love time-lapse videos. Our eyes are certainly attracted to things that move quickly, and for some reason it’s fun to see people in hardhats and machines building a solar project from nothing, condensing days or weeks into minutes.
Below are two recent time-lapse solar videos that I saw on Twitter. Both are large
System-level monitoring, continued adoption of string inverters for large PV installs, and improvements by Chinese suppliers are among the trends gleaned from a survey of inverter buyers & sellers.
One dollar per watt: that's the mark the solar industry is hoping to hit in order to become cost-competitive with conventional energies. In a bid to reach this magic number in the next two years, various Asian manufacturers are striving to reduce costs by increasing volume production. An alternative direction that will benefit the industry in the long term is to target increased efficiencies primarily through new manufacturing processes, new higher-quality materials for metallization and changing the structure of the cell. Nanotechnology companies have developed these new materials and processes that enable manufacturers...
Energy efficiency in the U.S. is much light and little heat — literally. Government policy pays a great deal of attention to saving electricity, but focuses little on the thermal energy we waste.
“Policy is electricity-centric in the U.S. Unless you are making kilowatts, the most efficient investments are off the radar,” sa
