David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

State policymakers are debating net energy metering in the context of electricity rates, the growing solar market, and reducing carbon emissions. Americans are installing solar photovoltaic, or PV, ...

Connecticut’s residential and commercial solar industry has seen significant development in the past decade. A combination of federal and state incentives has led more people opting to install panels ...

Maybe the electric utilities are right, for a change. Maybe net-metering—the ability to run your kilowatt-hour meter backwards, with solar panels on your roof or a windmill in your backyard–is not the ...