If you think the world is ready for a floating solar explosion, run right out and buy yourself a cigar. It’s happening! The idea of strewing solar panels about bodies of water like so many rose petals has finally caught on, and here in the US it’s getting a major push from the US Department…
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Walt Disney World is using a new 270-acre solar farm that takes up as much space as its Magic Kingdom park — times two. A number of reporters got a tour of the new 50 MW facility last week, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The new solar farm features more than 500,000 solar panels which move to follow…
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Snowy places aren’t ideal for harvesting solar energy – panels can’t do much if they’re buried under blankets of snow, of course. Now a team from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed a new device that can produce electricity from snow itself. The team calls the new device a snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator,…
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Maryland lawmakers approved a dramatic investment in renewable energy in the final hours of the 2019 General Assembly session, passing a measure mandating that half the state’s electricity supply come from renewable sources by 2030. The proposal appeared doomed as recently as two weeks ago, languishing in the House of Delegates until lawmakers revised it to preserve…
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The installation comprises of 2,880 solar modules that have been mounted on 5,700 square meters of roof space at Dormans Coffee’s global headquarters at Tatu Industrial Park. The plant is expected to produce 1.4 million kilowatt-hours per year, the same amount of energy consumed by 8,500 people. The installation is in line with Tatu City’s…
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On Friday, April 5, Spain’s Council of Ministers approved a royal decree regulating electricity self-consumption from the administrative, technical and economic point of view. Collective self-consumption has been enabled, which can benefit neighborhood communities and industrial estates. The procedures to be carried out by the self-consumers when an installation is registered are simplified and a…
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When a city decides to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, headlines follow. But the work has only just begun. Cities have many options for generating and purchasing renewable electricity, each of which comes with distinct benefits and challenges. Large, off-site projects tend to offer scale and help make a measurable difference towards locally-defined renewable…
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A third party logistics provider is using the sun’s energy to power some of its warehouses. Interchange Group Inc. affixed around 4,700 solar panels to four of its warehouses — three in Harrisonburg and one in Front Royal — throughout last year. “As we become a larger employer, we want to be somebody that’s contributing…
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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont is backing clean solar power as an important way to address two economic goals: creating good-paying jobs, and lowering energy costs for commercial and residential ratepayers, to get our economy moving again. He has answered the challenge put forth by voters for the state to combat the most pressing issue of…
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Fifty new jobs are to be created in Wicklow by an Irish solar energy services company. Crowley Carbon is to invest €10 million in three projects with the aim of increasing the amount of solar energy produced here by 50%. The move will bring to 250, the number of people employed by the Enniskerry based…
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