Solar contractor ReVision Energy completed solar projects totaling 244.86-kW at Keene Housing, a nonprofit from Keene, New Hampshire, providing affordable housing for those in need. A ribbon-cutting is scheduled on October 29 at Keene Housing to celebrate its solar energy transition. Last year, Keene Housing added grid-tied solar arrays totaling 91.5 kilowatts to nine buildings at its…
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California will be the first state in the U.S. to require solar panels on all new homes starting 2020, but the legislation’s passage did not end the debate over a key question: Does the cost of installing solar pay off for homeowners? Some developers are not even waiting for 2020 and are pressing ahead with solar-powered…
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Hecate Energy, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, has signed an agreement for Google to purchase 250 MW of renewable electricity from a 500 MW Hecate Energy solar facility in Texas. Google recently announced it has made its largest ever purchase of renewable energy, totaling more than $2 billion in new energy infrastructure produced by solar panels and wind turbines located around the…
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Biogas is the best energy, it has no contraindications,” and if you combine it with solar it becomes “the best energy business,” at least in Brazil, says Anélio Thomazzoni. His enthusiasm is not merely rhetorical. He raises about 38,000 pigs on his property, Gavea Farm, and uses their manure to produce biogas that generates electricity,…
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It’s not surprising that an increasing number of companies today are making the jump to solar energy. After all, not only does this sustainable source of power boast plenty of benefits for the environment. But it also yields several advantages for businesses as well. Whether you’re into real estate and are looking to boost your…
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The recent solar energy system installation at a branch of Unity Bank in Bauchi, Nigeria, Daystar Power has installed its 100th solar system since the companies’ foundation in 2017. This corresponds to a growth of 733% in the number of installed systems compared to the previous year, and a twenty-fold increase in the total installed…
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Ahead of the UN climate summit and the global climate strike, the world’s largest search engine announced that the tech behemoth will make its biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy yet, signing on to a series of agreements that will increase Google’s wind and solar investments by 40 percent, as Quartz reported.Google struck 18 clean energy deals that…
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Solar Frontier Americas (SFA), the United States-based renewable energy business of Idemitsu Kosan Company, announced that it has acquired a 50.5 MWdc solar project purchased from CS Solar, a joint venture company of Samsung Solar Energy. The project is located in Stanislaus County, California, a few hours southeast of San Jose. Power from the project will be…
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The temperature of Earth’s surface is generally pretty stable, but it has to let heat off somehow. When heat waves rise off a sidewalk, for example, they dissipate into cooler air. That cooling process eventually reaches the upper atmosphere and then the cold, lifeless environs of space, in a process called radiative sky cooling. Scientists…
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When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched the International Solar Alliance last October, he applauded the goal of mobilizing about $1 trillion dollars towards the deployment of some 1,000 gigawatts of solar energy by 2030. “It is clear,” he said, “that we are witnessing a global renewable energy revolution.” That revolution is also taking place under…
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