Missouri’s Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has announced plans to install solar panels at a rest stop alongside the iconic Route 66 as part of the department’s “Road to Tomorrow Initiative.” [instagram https://instagram.com/p/BGxg2n6p0FH expand=1] The Historic Route 66 welcome center in Conway, Missouri will receive the nation’s first solar roadway panels on a public right of […]
SolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes Project in Tonopah, Nevada is quietly providing clean, green solar energy to 75,000 homes in the Silver State even when the sun isn’t shining. The 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant in Nevada is the first utility-scale concentrated solar plant in the world. Photo credit: SolarReserve Crescent Dunes is the first utility-scale […]
By Peyton Fleming Sierra Leone dropping import duties on household solar appliances. Foundations putting up millions of dollars to kick start India’s ambitious renewable energy efforts. Iconic brand companies committing to 100 percent clean energy at facilities worldwide. When Sustainable Energy for All CEO Rachel Kyte addressed the seventh Clean Energy Ministerial this month in […]
This summer, hundreds of homes Brooklyn and Queens will be recruited in an experiment to create a “clean virtual power plant” that feeds the utility grid with solar energy. SPWR & @ConEdison launch largest virtual power plant in US with ~300 #solar + storage homes. https://t.co/h0Te45aaJg pic.twitter.com/YPqJAG0FB2 — SunPower (@SunPower) June 13, 2016 New York utility Consolidated Edison […]
I spent the last year working with co-author David Fridley and Post Carbon Institute staff on a just-published book, Our Renewable Future. The process was a pleasure: everyone involved (including the twenty or so experts we interviewed or consulted) was delightful to work with and I personally learned an enormous amount along the way. But […]
In the early 1990s, Germany launched Energiewende or “energy revolution,” a program “to combat climate change, avoid nuclear risks, improve energy security and guarantee competitiveness and growth.” Renewable energy grew from 4 percent in 1990 to more than 27 percent in 2014, including a significant increase in citizen-owned power projects, according to energy think tank […]
Apple is seeking to sell a whole different product. No, not cars—yet. Try renewable energy. The iPhone maker has created an energy subsidiary in Delaware called Apple Energy LLC to sell surplus electricity generated by its various renewable energy projects. Apple Plans to Sell Excess Rooftop Solar Energy From Headquarters https://t.co/2ruM8gq3rK #solarenergy #apple pic.twitter.com/kOlDajSm6I — RenewableEnergyWorld (@REWorld) […]
Heinekens are now brewed with clean energy. The global beer company’s Göss Brewery in Austria is the first carbon-neutral brewery of its scale in the world. Heineken’s brewery in Austria has achieved its goal of becoming the first CO2 neutral brewery of its scale in the world. Photo credit: Heineken The facility, which kicked off […]
Solar is on track for another record-shattering year. According to a new report from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the U.S. solar industry will install 14.5 gigawatts of capacity in 2016, nearly doubling the 7.5 gigawatts in capacity installed in 2015. The U.S. solar market will nearly double in 2016, thanks […]
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