Brock Johnson

Professor Coco
English 1001
6 December 2016
Annotated Bibliography
"Concentrating Solar Power Basics." National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States
Government, Web. www.nrel.gov/workingwithus/re-csp.html. Accessed 3 Nov. 2016.
This article talks about Concentrating Solar Power Basics. It gives brief summaries on the
three different types of the concentrating solar power systems. It will be helpful because
it gives an overview of the different types of systems and describes how they work. This
is a credible source because it is a government website, which unfortunately does not
have an author. But, the information does come from the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory website.
Dickinson, Tim. "THE DIRTY WAR ON SOLAR POWER. (Cover Story)." Rolling Stone 1255
(2016): 26-31. Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 Oct. 2016.
This article talks about how in Florida the power companies are using politics to make
sure that solar energy is not used in the state. It talks about how the power companies are
spending millions of dollars on the state legislative to help prevent and block solar
initiatives that would threaten their businesses. It also talks about the government dealing
with solar energy initiatives on the national level. This article will be helpful because it
gives good examples of the outside influences of the power companies in the political
world. Also because it talks about solar energy on the level of national politics. This is a
credible source because it is Tim Dickinson who is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone

magazine. Dickinson has over 15 years of experience for national magazines, such as
Mother Jones, Outside, and Wired, as writer and editor.
Kammen, Daniel M. "Solar Energy Innovation And Silicon Valley." Bulletin Of The Atomic
Scientists 70.5 (2014): 45. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 5 Dec. 2016.
This article talks about the growth of the solar energy industry and how it depends on
strong relationships between innovations, strong manufacturing sectors, good policies,
and advancement. This article will be useful for talking about the prices and cost of solar
energy today. It will be helpful to use the statistics from this article in order to compare
the prices of solar energy cost from the past to today. This is a credible article because it
is written by Daniel Kammen for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Kammen is the
Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California,
Berkeley, USA. He also has an appointment for the Department of Nuclear Engineering
and is the founding director of The Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory.
Moran, Karsten. "What You Should Know Before Going Solar." The New York Times, Web. 30
Sept. 2016.
This article talks about things that homeowners should know before they decide to switch
to solar energy. It talks about the basics of solar energy and is written at a simplified
language that is easy to understand. This article will be useful for pulling quotes from
because it uses the simple language of the piece that everyone can understand. This
article will also be helpful because one of the topics that it talks about is net metering,
and since its in a simplified language it is very useful for quoting. This is a credible
article because it is written by Karsten Moran who is an author and photographer for The

New York Times. Morans photos are used for multiple articles throughout The New York
Times.
Papaefthimiou, Spiros, Manolis Souliotis, and Kostas Andriosopoulos. "Grid Parity Of Solar
Energy: Imminent Fact Or Future's Fiction?" Energy Journal 37. (2016): 263-276.
Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.
This article talks about the effectiveness and potential of solar energy for useable
electricity generation. It focuses on the Photovoltiacs (PV) and Concentrated Solar Power
(CSP) systems. This will be a useful source because it talks about solar energy
technologies and their impact on the existing electricity grid. It talks about grid parity
which is when solar energy cost the same or less than conventional energy sources, this is
when solar energy will become a more viable source of energy generation. I know this is
a credible source due to the fact that was published in an academic journal, is full of
graphs and charts, images, and has almost 2 pages worth of references. These references
include but are nowhere near limited to technical reports, energy and electrical journals,
the U.S. Department of Energy, and International Renewable Energy Agencys.
Rotman, David. "Paying For Solar Power." MIT Technology Review 118.5 (2015): 88-93.
Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 Oct. 2016.
This article talks about how there are plans to ramp up solar energy production. This plan
involves creating a giant solar factory in Buffalo to try and help increase the economy in
Buffalo. It plans to build the factory to help in production of solar panels. This article
would be helpful because it talks about the cost of solar energy decreasing. It also talks
about grid parity and its need for the government tax credits. This is partially a creditable
source because it is MITs Technology Review journal and it tells who the author is, he is

David Rotman, editor of MIT Technology Review. But it does not contain a bibliography
or works cited for any of the sources used for the article.
"Solar Photovoltaic Technology Basics." National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States
Government, Web. 13 Aug. 2013, www.nrel.gov/workingwithus/re-photovoltaics.html.
Accessed 3 Nov. 2016.
This article talks about solar photovoltaic (PV) technology and gives a brief overview of
it. It gives a brief overview of the history of PV cells and talks briefly about the
development of the solar technology over time. This will be a helpful article because it
can give some insight to how solar PV technology has developed and been advanced over
time. This is a credible source because it is a government website and the information
comes from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory website.