Alpine Solar Heat and Hot Water, LLC

05/21/2026

From Assaad Razzouk on LinkedIn.

05/19/2026

[From Joseph LaRusso on LinkedIn]
Today is going to be a notable day—perhaps a record-setting day—in the ISO New England Inc. service territory.

To begin with, system emissions are much lower than usual. Per Electricity Maps, CO2eq emissions are 125g/kWh currently—an extremely low emissions rate for ISO-NE.

As I write this at 7:57 a.m. only 1,008 MW of natural gas generating capacity is being used to make power. That’s a mere 6% of the 16,372 MW of gas generating capacity available on the system. The region’s Nuclear generators (3,333 MW), Imports from New York and Canada, including hydropower delivered via the new New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line (2,221 MW), Renewables , which includes wind and utility-scale solar as well as generation from biomass and refuse (1,337 MW), and New England Hydropower (1,086 MW), are each producing more power currently than natural gas. What’s more, it’s a transparently clear day here in New England, so by midday behind-the-meter solar will likely be producing more than 6 GW of power.

The least amount of demand on the ISO-NE system, 5,318 MW, was recorded on April 20, 2025. Today, ISO-NE is predicting that today’s minimum of 5,860 MW will occur at 1:00 p.m. That’s low enough to put a new minimum demand record within reach.

And prices? Prices have been in and out of negative territory in the real time market all morning.

The addition of cleaner generating resources here in New England is having a measurable beneficial effect on emissions and pricing today, but today is just a snapshot of the larger impact those resources are having in the ISO-NE service territory throughout the year.
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05/10/2026

But this time, countries are plotting a course away from oil, gas, and coal to renewable energy

05/10/2026

"More than 85 percent of new renewable energy is now cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives."

But this time, countries are plotting a course away from oil, gas, and coal to renewable energy

05/05/2026

Less evaporation; less algae; electricity production.

The 1.6 MW Nexus pilot project in California has demonstrated that solar panels installed over irrigation canals can significantly reduce water evaporation and algae growth by 85%, while also showi…

04/28/2026

[From Rod Perry on LinkedIn.]
For generations, we've treated farmland and energy production as separate kingdoms with oil development in one county, farmer’s fields in another. That division made sense when the source of energy was a noisy and toxic oil pump, but when energy can be collected quietly from the sun above, it no longer matters. In fact, solar power and agriculture are now best friends.

Agrivoltaics, which is the practice of combining solar arrays with working farmland, is quietly rewriting the old rules. Sheep and goats graze contentedly beneath elevated solar panels, which provide the animals shade and shelter from weather extremes. Fishponds, enjoying the shade beneath floating solar arrays, lose much less water to evaporation. A huge bonus in drought-stricken areas of the world. It’s win-win. The land does double duty and both businesses flourish.

This is not a wacky pilot program or a climate gesture. This is simply a farmer looking at the same acre and finding two revenue streams where there used to be one.

And then there is China, which has deployed more solar capacity than any nation on earth. Researchers tracking large desert installations have documented something unexpected: the panels create wetter microclimates beneath them. Reduced soil temperatures, less evaporation, moisture retention. In some of the driest landscapes on the planet, the ground under the panels is recovering and the desert is pushed back.

The bottom line is that fossil fuel infrastructure consumes land. Agrivoltaic installations multiply what the land or the water produces. As stated in my book “Inflection Point”, the transition to renewable energy is really an economic story. It turns out it's an agricultural story too and the farmers figured it out before the politicians did.

04/22/2026

" ... renewable energy is making progress to lower energy bills and deliver reliable, clean energy."

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/21/win-judge-blocks-trumps-efforts-to-kneecap-renewables/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRWEr1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEebBhUTwTqmMasqbisJGAZtsUIzil0u6vRBJ6U7CNuiOQkNv1wB75nxiAcppE_aem_f7DCW1koG5s7Lb78OitZ0A

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Boston — Today, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled in favor of renewable energy developers, temporarily blocking a number of the Trump administration’s relentless and aggressive att...

02/22/2026

Copied from Ole Margraf on LinkedIn:

Germany has 3+ million plug-in solar systems. The US has maybe 50,000.

24 US states are now reviewing legislation to legalize plug-in solar. Systems you plug into a wall outlet like a toaster. No installer, no utility approval, no permit.

Utah passed unanimously in 2025. California, New York, Colorado, and New Jersey have bills moving through committees right now.

Germany already proved the model works. Solarpaket 1 in 2024 removed the friction. Registration takes 5 minutes online. Renters got a legal right to install. Adoption exploded. German systems run 200-500 EUR with 2-4 year payback. US systems cost around $2000 with 3-5 year payback. Both make sense without subsidies.

70% of US households can't do rooftop solar. Renters, bad roof angles, shading, HOA restrictions. Plug-in solves all of that.

Safety certification unlocked everything. UL 3700 in the US, like VDE norms in Germany, gave regulators the cover they needed to approve plug-and-play. This bypasses federal policy entirely. No state budget required. It counts as an appliance, not infrastructure. Moves forward regardless of what happens in Washington.

Germany spent 5+ years figuring out what works. US states are implementing the same playbook in 12 months.

Who are the founders building in this space?
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