Electricity
Ithaca College Goes Solar in Upstate New York
Ithaca College, located in the Finger Lakes region of central New York State, has been listed in the Princeton Review’s list of top green colleges for six straight years. Now, it is getting even greener, with the addition of 2.9 MW of solar energy.
Business Renewables Center Members Named to Clean Edge’s Corporate Leaders
Clean Edge recently released a new benchmarking index of corporations that take the lead in clean energy. The list of Corporate Clean Energy Leaders includes more than a dozen members of RMI’s BRC, who make up nearly half Clean Edge’s inaugural list.
5 Ways to Sustain the Corporate Renewables Market
The year 2015 represented a major turning point for electricity generation in the United States. The country retired 14 GW of fossil-fueled generation. Meanwhile, it brought online 16.4 GW of carbon-free generation, with wind energy leading the mix at 8.5 GW of new installed capacity, according to BNEF’s Sustainable Energy in…
Top 10 Reasons Why Solar PV Has Reached Escape Velocity
With Nevada rolling back net metering and solar company stock prices falling, one might think the solar industry is in big trouble. Yet we believe the opposite is true. Here are the top ten reasons why...
Water Heaters: As Sexy as a Tesla?
This article was written by Margaret McCall, a former Senior Associate at RMI. Of all the new tech emerging on the energy landscape, water heaters seem an unlikely contender. Alongside battery players like Tesla, with its Model X and Powerwall, water heaters look like even more of a…
