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Chicken In Every Pot, Solar On Every New Home For Calif. City
Rex Parris, the mayor of Lancaster, California, wants every new home in his city to host solar. And starting next January, that could be a reality. Recently in Lancaster, homebuilder KB Home celebrated...
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Texas Has Awesome Renewables Potential, But Will It Meet It?
Texas leads the U.S. in wind power and could become a large solar market in the coming years. The state could generate up to 35 gigawatts of electricity from renewables, according to Clean Energy...
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Arizonans Rise Up To Defend Renewable Energy Standard
Solar advocates in Arizona are celebrating a victory — Republican Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) veteran Gary Pierce has withdrawn his proposal to alter the state’s Renewable Energy Standard and...
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Energy Efficiency Much Less Practiced In Red States
Americans say they love efficiency and clean energy. Take a look at any poll asking people whether they support these sectors and you’ll find strong agreement across party lines — in theory, anyway....
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Home Depot Helps Move Solar Panels In Northeast
It was the holy grail of solar. Get solar panels on the shelves of a big-box store like Home Depot where do-it-yourselfers shop for home improvement projects, and the solar industry could tap a whole...
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Breaking Down The War On State Renewables Standards
At least twenty-two of the 29 state renewables standards have been attacked by legislators or regulators in the last year or are now under attack. Known as a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) or a...
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Paying Attention To Fine Details Of Where Clean Energy Is Sited
The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph has created a minor stir in the U.K. because of a recent article citing research which reveals that wind farms constructed on peatlands, a common biome around...
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Solar A Boon For Cash-Strapped Schools
On March 11, a small elementary school district in Salinas, California took a big leap forward: with a unanimous vote, the school board approved financing for the installation of solar panels on all...
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Forget Energy Intensity; By 2020, C02 Output Must Fall
Energy intensity — energy use per dollar of GDP — is the last refuge of fossil fuel proponents. Instead of measuring real improvement in energy efficiency, it hides the outsourcing of dirty, coal-based...
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California Wind Energy, For One Day At Least, Blows Big
Winds that reached over 90 miles per hour on mountain ridges blew down through the wind farms in California’s Altamont, San Gorgonio, and Tehachapi Passes and across the state’s wind installations,...
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Google Uses Influence To Nudge Clean Energy Forward
Google surprised a lot of people in 2010 when it received approval from federal regulators to buy and sell electricity at market rates just like a utility. Was Google actually getting into the business...
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Are Home Energy Dashboards A Passing Fad?
Cloud-based energy dashboards are flooding the market. No matter where a company is on the value chain — from site assessment to full-service energy procurement — the use of dashboards is ubiquitous....
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Electric Vehicle Charger Prices A Little More Affordable
Consumers are a fickle lot, especially when it comes to purchasing a car. The emotional decision of choosing your ride, however, does not necessarily extend to the charging station for drivers of...
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House GOP Tackles Pressing Things…Like Fan Efficiency?
Ceiling fans and birth control have more in common than you might think, at least in Washington. These two disparate items both have the ability to invoke the ire of many Republicans in the current...
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California, Texas Lead Nation In Smart Grid Technology
Which states are leading the nation in smart grid investment — and which policies and customer engagement practices are driving that lead? A new report from the GridWise Alliance and the Smart Grid...
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Utility Scale Solar And What It Means Today
The phrase “utility-scale solar” is heard so frequently in discussions about renewable energy that it comes as a bit of a shock when one realizes that there is no commonly accepted definition as to...
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Geothermal Power And Its Potential
An important transition is underway with the integration of renewables into the grid. But often overlooked and seldom appreciated is the tremendous potential of geothermal energy. Unfortunately for...
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Clean Energy To Power Nuclear Weapons Testing
Earlier this year, Siemens won a sustainability-related contract from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) that will allow the firm to construct and operate the government’s biggest wind...
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Mixing Solar And Ice For A Clean Energy Solution
Three years ago, Greentech Media covered the launch of an experiment in California to see if ice-making air conditioners could help solve a tricky problem for solar power. The participants, solar PV...
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Solar Power In United States Grows Every 4 Minutes
A lot happens in America every four minutes. During that short time period, 30 babies are born, 4,080 McDonald’s Big Macs are consumed, and 48,000 tons of CO2 are emitted. And as it turns out, the U.S....
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