“Environmental progress should produce benefits people can recognize in their businesses, households, and communities. It should make economic sense. And it should respect the energy systems that make modern life possible, even as we work to improve them.”
In 2002 when I was a vice president of Orion Energy Systems, I was questioned by a Wisconsin senator at an energy event. That encounter became the starting point for what I then called practical environmentalism to describe Orion’s Energy Efficiency efforts: an approach that sought to put good energy policy, economic development, and environmental improvement on the same side of the ledger.
The phrase expressed a conviction that has stayed with me. Environmental progress should produce benefits people can recognize in their businesses, households, and communities. It should make economic sense. And it should respect the energy systems that make modern life possible, even as we work to improve them.…
Continue ReadingA solar bankruptcy list has been compiled by Data Register, “Data from Solar Company Bankruptcy Register: US Home Solar Bankruptcies and Closures Since 2022.” Their summary of the current state of the industry speaks for itself (reproduced verbatim below). I then offer a final comment, followed by Appendice A on (long-term) contract transfers from busted companies and Appendix B on previous posts on the rooftop solar bust.
DATA REGISTER
Since 2022, more than 90 solar companies that sold, financed, serviced, or supplied U.S. homes have gone bankrupt, entered a court-supervised wind-down, or liquidated. The yearly count is 29 in 2022; 29 in 2024; 24 in 2025, and 11 in 2026 (to date). Seventy-seven (85 percent) went through a bankruptcy court or similar proceeding, 51 (56 percent) are Chapter 7 liquidations once conversions are counted, 79 (87 percent) are installers.…
Continue ReadingThis post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Unreliables (General):
*** The core issues with “renewables”
Wind Energy:
Upstate NY Wind Project Caught in a Trap as New York’s Climate Bureaucrats Let It Build Wind Turbines It May Not Be Able to Operate!
US Gov’t Seeks New Review of US Wind’s Maryland Project
Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Power at ‘Warp Speed’: Magical Thinking Meets Statism
Fossil Fuel Energy:
Newsom’s green agenda DOES NOT meet California’s fuel demands
Qatar Poised to Become Top Overseas Buyer Of American Gas As Iran War Chokes Its Own Exports
Miscellaneous Energy News:
Trump announces end of Biden-era methane rule, citing $45B in savings
Fermi Inc.…