Within days of the UK government declaring war on renewable energy subsidies, Democrat presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton brought cheer back to the green brigades with a demonstration of how clean energy announcements should be made across The Pond. After Democrat rival Bernie Sanders (nope, we've never heard of him either) criticized the former First Lady for a lack of environmental policies, she responded in style by announcing an aim to install half a billion solar panels across the U.S. within four years of entering the White House, though presumably not by fixing them on herself. That ambitious 700 per cent expansion of capacity would be a step towards having every U.S. household powered by clean energy within ten years, said Clinton in a speech delivered to Iowa State University and, with that goal in mind, the wife of former president Bill, announced her intention to extend the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for solar beyond the end of next year and to rebalance the tax system towards renewable energy at the expense of fossil fuels. It's fair to say clean energy announcements are unlikely to be a central plank of the campaigns of Republican candidates such as Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee and quite what 'Onion Loaf' makes of such grand ambitions is impossible to discern. When contacted by pv magazine for comment, Donald Trump roared: "You're fired!" SolarCity, coming to a shop near you Having conquered the world of residential third-party solar, at least according to its PR material, SolarCity, the Universe's largest solar leasing company, this week trained its sights on the commercial market. SolarCity, lest you forget, is the U.S.' largest solar leasing company and, in this age where financial losses are dismissively brushed aside by analysts captivated by unique users, monthly page impressions and the like, the San Mateo-based company is a runaway success, having enjoyed a record second quarter which saw 189 MW of installations and a hardly noticeable loss of a measly $22.4 million (down from $47.7 million on the same period last year) - what's ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...