Solar energy companies across the region are reeling at the prospect of rollbacks to the solar energy tax credits included in the budget bill that passed the U.S. House in May.

With electricity bills set to rise for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware customers next month, clean energy advocates are demanding the regional electric grid operator allow new renewable energy sources to connect to the grid faster.

Perfect timing!  73 grants to help public schools and community colleges across PA go solar and save big were announced.  Five Philly public schools and Community College of Philadelphia are among the 25 winners in southeast PA. 

Attorneys general from 17 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration, asking a district court to block the president’s ban on wind energy approvals and declare it unlawful.

A group of Bryn Mawr math majors partnered with PSEA last year to help schools do the preliminary solar audits and analyses needed to determine whether the school district should invest in on-site solar.  The students caught on so quickly to all the online modeling tools, the Solar Schools Toolkit and its proformas that they were able to complete detailed analyses for two School Districts.  Two of the students stayed with the project after the semester had ended and took it all the way to the finish line, with the School District deciding to go solar on an elementary school. 

Electricity customers in the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland (PJM) region are facing a looming cost crisis stemming from two major issues: (a) worsening barriers to building and connecting new generation resources needed to supply the electric grid, and (b) unprecedented increases in projected electricity demand. Accelerating new resource deployment will be necessary to reliably serve new and existing load without greatly increasing energy costs to electricity customers.

Renewable energy companies are shifting strategy under President Trump, emphasizing the economic benefits of low-carbon electricity.

Akira Drake Rodriguez, a University of Pennsylvania professor who has studied inequities in housing and schools, has repeatedly visited a school in west Philadelphia to install weather sensors. Kids there were hot and frustrated, squeezed into overcrowded classrooms, and unable even to get a drink of water because school water fountains didn’t work.

“Every time I walked through that school, whether it was June or October, the kids were like, ‘It’s so f-ing hot in here,’” she said.

Reducing Industrial Sector Emissions in Pennsylvania (RISE PA),  is a $396 million industrial decarbonization grant program at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

The goal of RISE PA is to substantially reduce emissions from Pennsylvania’s industrial sector by funding decarbonization projects at industrial facilities across the Commonwealth.

We explore some of the ways of deploying solar energy for groups of people and how to make them successful.

Invoking the innovative genius of Ben Franklin, Gov. Shapiro unveiled his Lightning Energy Plan, urging Pennsylvania to reclaim its energy leadership.

Are your students curious about solar energy?  PSEA is holding a free teacher training for the Junior Solar Sprint on:

     Saturday, February 15, 2025  from 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
     Friends Center 15th and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, PA.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) is warning regional electricity grid operator PJM that the state will consider leaving the organization if it doesn’t do more to protect consumers against soaring power prices.

Anna Goldman, a primary care physician at Boston Medical Center, got tired of hearing that her patients couldn't afford the electricity needed to run breathing assistance machines, recharge wheelchairs, turn on air conditioning or keep their refrigerators plugged in. So she worked with her hospital on a solution.

A new study finds rooftop solar will save California $2.3B this year — a rebuttal to the ​‘cost-shift’ math that’s led regulators to stifle solar growth.

For years, California utilities, regulators, and consumer advocates have argued that residents with solar panels on their rooftops are making electricity more expensive for everyone else in the state.

Save the date for the Community Advocates for Cleaning Energy (CACE) Electric School Bus webinar on November 13th. Don’t leave the benefits and funding sources on the table! An EPA Clean School Bus Program Rebate round is now open with a due date of Thursday, January 9th, 2025. Start planning now for additional rounds to be announced in the future.

Five governors are urging the PJM Interconnection to reform its capacity market rules and interconnection queue process to prevent “unnecessary” costs for electricity customers.

The sector is enjoying massive production investment thanks to the clean energy law, even as it contends with heightened tariffs.

As the school year kicks off, many Philadelphia students are returning to aging buildings that are powered by an electric grid fueled largely by planet-warming natural gas.

David Hammes, from Exact Solar, explains that the solar systems on these affordable home ownership row homes will offset over 70% of the new low income homeowners' electricity use.  The homes are Energy STAR certified, all electric, with high efficiency heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, high levels of air sealing and insulation and many other measures.