The future is selling solar power to a neighbor with a Tesla Utilities see both opportunity and threat in new technology If utilities think rooftop solar panels and batteries are bad for business, blockchain should scare the bejeezus out of them. That’s because in addition to helping more people slap panels on their rooftops -- which eats into power sales and taxes grids -- the distributed, digital ledger that’s proliferated across industries can also be used to trade electricity without a...

President Donald Trump’s solar tariffs probably won’t be a deal breaker for homeowners considering rooftop panels. The 30 percent duties on imported panels are only apt to increase the total cost of a typical residential rooftop system by about 3 percent, Bloomberg New Energy Finance analyst Hugh Bromley said. That’s because panels account for only about a quarter of the price of rooftop system. Other major costs include labor and marketing. Nonetheless, the president’s announcement has sent...

TGI Solar said it’ll enter “hot” blockchain, crypto market Shares more than tripled to as much as 0.2 cent on the news A little-known New Jersey firm that, as recently as 2011, specialized in renewable energy projects just became the latest to join the blockchain and cryptocurrency craze. The penny stock TGI Solar Power Group Inc. said in a statement Tuesday that it planned to get involved in the “Blockchain and Crypto hot commodity market.” The news sent TGI’s shares more than tripling to as...