Featured in Trade barriers spoil solar's party – 09-2019

Solar + wind, the benefits of co-location

Shared grid connections, complimentary resource availability, and more grid-friendly power are among the key advantages of pairing wind farms with solar arrays – and developers are quickly moving into the emerging space.

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Marian Willuhn

16 Sep 2019

Image: hpgruesen, pixabay

When subsidies for renewable energy generators were more generous, wind and solar fiercely competed for the attention of policymakers. This rivalry resulted in a fervent debate over the relative merits of each technology. In a way, it became the renewable energy version of Monty Python’s Judeans People’s Front – or was it the People’s Front …

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