solar power
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Obstacles and Opportunities for Community Solar Power
Successful community solar power projects in Colorado, Maryland, and North Carolina are knocking down the price of residential-scale solar photovoltaics (PV) by 25% and giving renters and people with shady roofs a chance to go solar. The potential is enormous: nearly every state could get at least 20% of its power from rooftop solar alone. […]
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Big league sports join the green team, score with solar
An alliance between sports and the green community has American pro leagues urging teams to solarize their stadiums. Some teams are ahead of the game
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California bags the plastic bag ban but makes solar leap
The Golden State failed to ban plastic bags and may reverse its landmark climate bill AB 32, but it's also adding solar panel capacity like crazy.
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Big day for solar at the California Public Utilities Commission
Today, the California Public Utilities Commission issued two big solar decisions.
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Feds lease prime solar land, but nary a panel is in sight
Congress set aside millions of acres for solar farms. Not one panel has been erected. Also, Greenpeace v Facebook and Tea Party v climate change
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Want a car that gets good grades? Buy a hybrid
The federal government plans to grade cars based on their fuel efficiency. That C for the Ford A-150 pickup wont make everyone happy.
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California moves to set up auction market for green energy
California licensed the first U.S. large-scale solar thermal power plant in two decades, and it's building three big solar farms in the Mojave Desert
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Progress in California's renewable wholesale distributed generation market
Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the state’s largest utilities, has had a voluntary Renewable Standard Offer Program for the past several years. It’s a fixed-price offer to buy wholesale renewable energy from systems under 20 MW in size, with the price set at the the cost of new natural gas generation. In 2009, SCE […]
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A global shift to renewable energy: But will it be fast enough?
Despite a global economic crisis, a new energy economy is emerging on a scale that we could not have imagined. And it is a worldwide phenomenon.