The Vista, California big box store and its new carports are topped with 3,420 solar panels. The site will produce more renewable energy than the store’s usage. Big box retailer Target is testing its first net-zero carbon emissions store as a model to bring sustainable solutions to its operations. Located in Vista, California, the store…
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Flipping the switch on the 88MW array this week is a major milestone toward its goal of net zero emissions by 2050. The solar generating station that came online this week will bring Stanford to an 80% reduction in campus greenhouse gas emissions as part of a complete overhaul of the university’s entire energy system,…
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U.S. Light Energy completed the solar projects for the Tri-County Energy Consortium. Four individual ground-mount solar arrays that total 11.52MW were recently completed for members of the Tri-County Energy Consortium, a New York-based intergovernmental cooperative of schools and municipalities created for the procurement of renewable energy generating facilities for its members. The solar installations, owned…
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Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system that can be operated at a voltage of around 12V, with a 95% recovery rate for lost power after cleaning. The waterless system can be operated automatically via an electric motor. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a lab-scale solar module cleaning system…
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Converting the nation’s 40 million acres of ethanol corn farms into solar-plus-food facilities would generate 1.5 times our nation’s electricity needs, while also powering a 100% electrified passenger vehicle fleet. Ethanol emits more greenhouse gasses than the gasoline it is supposed to replace. Additionally, ethanol (corn) farms greatly under-utilize one of the greatest resources we…
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Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose by 6% in 2021 mostly due to increased coal use, but renewable energy sources and nuclear power provided a higher share of global electricity generation than coal in 2021, according to IEA report. As global economies rebounded from the Covid-19 crisis, the increase in coal use spiked CO2 emissions…
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A team of three analysts from global energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie are in Puerto Rico this week helping install solar panels on homes as part of a new initiative with charity Let’s Share the Sun Foundation. What better way to learn about solar energy than to help with installations. That’s part of the thinking behind…
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NASA will explore a large, metal-rich asteroid with an remote-operated craft powered by two cross-shaped solar arrays. This August, NASA plans to launch a tennis-court sized craft, sending it on a 1.5-billion-mile journey to the asteroid Psyche, which the craft shares its name with. The Psyche craft will be winged with two large cross-shaped solar…
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Fort Riley is a top solar energy producer in Kansas, a state that ranks 44th in the nation for solar. With an additional 350 solar systems to be installed at the Fort Riley military base, 1,600 homes on the base will be solar powered–and there’s more to come. Corvias,the project developer is a solar installer…
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The Electrip by Letenda is a 30-foot bus with Cummins batteries and nearly 300kWh onboard. Canada’s Letenda has unveiled a new electric vehicle (EV) bus designed to perform in cold weather conditions, called the Electrip. This 30-foot bus is built with 222-296kWh Cummins lithium-ion batteries and can charge in two hours with a 150kW DC…
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