Four years isn't long enough to forget what your electric bill used to look like before the panels went up. For most of that time, I was genuinely happy with the decision. Then a series of small ...

When we bought a not-quite-finished off-grid home about a month into the COVID-19 lockdown, my wife and I set out on an adventure in more ways than one. We decided it was the right time to begin the ...

Real energy independence can be tricky to accomplish, but during the past few years, I've accumulated some insights that aren't so obvious. The main misconceptions about life off-grid are that it's a ...

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Austin, Texas, April 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- My Solar Claim, a consumer advocacy organization, has announced a new initiative aimed at protecting homeowners from predatory solar sales practices ...

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A major new study of the economics of solar, published in Harvard Business Review, finds that the waste produced by solar panels will make electricity from solar four times more expensive than the ...