Key: Solar power growing, diversifying
Keith Key said most people have an image of a typical solar power customer. “Most of the people I talk to think they live out in the country, eat tofu and are bare-footed,” Key said. “They’re off the grid, you know, and they’re the only people interested in that.”
Let the sunshine in: Local attorney converting home, office, rental properties to solar power
Columbus attorney David Owen and his wife, Renee, are having solar panels installed in their historic Southside home, rental houses and his downtown office building.
Mississippi tries to balance utility worries in solar rules
The sun will rise on residential solar panels in Mississippi, but it’s unclear how bright their future will be.
Froma Harrop: The sun is rising on solar panels
On the average sunny day, Germany’s huge energy grid gets 40 percent of its power from the sun. Guess what happened one recent morning when the sun went into eclipse. Nothing.
Charlie Mitchell: Miss. dips its toe in the solar power experiment
Among Mississippi’s abundant blessings — and the state is abundantly blessed — is sunshine.
Starkville home to largest solar array in Mississippi
For years and years the guys behind Synergetics were interested in solar power but never pulled the trigger.
The biggest hurdle: cost. It just wasn’t financially feasible for the Starkville-based information technology company, which was founded in 1992 and employs almost 50 people.
“We didn’t want to be green for the sake of being green,” David Palmer, the company’s 45-year-old CEO, said.
Utilities, solar companies in fight over rates
ATLANTA — Sunlight is free, but if you use it to make electricity your power company wants you to pay. Utilities in many states say