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Orange & Rockland and Sunrun To Bring Innovative Rooftop Solar and Battery Network To New York
Orange & Rockland (O&R) and Sunrun Inc. - a leading home solar, battery storage and energy services company - this week announced the companies have received approval to deploy rooftop solar and battery systems as part of an innovative virtual power plant project supporting New York's transition to clean, reliable, locally generated electricity. Beginning this year, Sunrun will bundle ...
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Hawaiian Electric Hits Nearly 35% Renewable Energy, Exceeding State Mandate
Driven by higher solar energy and wind production and lower consumer demand, Hawaiian Electric achieved a 34.5 percent consolidated renewable portfolio standard (RPS) in 2020. The 34.5 percent is the consolidated RPS for O'ahu, Hawai'i Island and Maui County, up from 28.4 percent in 2019. Hawaiian Electric exceeded the state requirement to reach 30 percent by 2020 and has more than tripled the ...
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City of Santa Barbara Progresses Toward 100% Clean Energy Goal
Renew Financial, a leading clean energy and home improvement finance company, announced that the City of Santa Barbara has joined the CaliforniaFIRST PACE financing program and will make the program available to City residents in the near future. This action is a crucial positive step toward Santa Barbara meeting its commendable goal of exclusively using renewable energy sources by 2030. ...
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Georgia Power, PulteGroup Celebrate Opening of Atlanta's First Smart Neighborhood
Georgia Power and PulteGroup are celebrating the opening of Atlanta's first Smart Neighborhood™. Leaders from Georgia Power, PulteGroup, the Georgia Public Service Commission, U.S. Department of Energy, City of Atlanta and the project's technology partners joined together to officially open the neighborhood recently at PulteGroup's development in Atlanta's Upper West Side, one of the city's most ...
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Renewable energy industry hot in latest global status report
The renewable energy industry is rising from obscurity into the mainstream of the energy sector, the latest global assessment reveals, although public perception of the industry has not kept pace with the reality. The renewable energy sector now accounts for 2.4 million jobs globally, and has doubled electric generating capacity since 2004, to 240 gigawatts, according to the Renewables 2007 ...
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Georgia Power Expands Smart Home Offerings for Customers
Georgia Power recently announced it is adding to its smart home offerings by working with Vivint, a Georgia Power preferred provider, to bring customers the latest in-home security and automation solution. As one of Georgia Power's preferred providers, Vivint is exclusively offering Georgia Power's customers who sign up for Vivint's home security and automation system a $0 activation fee, free ...
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Georgia Power and PulteGroup partner for first Smart Neighborhood™ in Atlanta
Georgia Power and PulteGroup, Inc. announced today a new partnership to develop Atlanta's first Smart Neighborhood™ at Pulte's Altus at the Quarter development. The new, state-of-the art Pulte Homes community is located in Atlanta's Upper West Side, one of the city's most vibrant and popular areas. Each technology-enhanced home in the Georgia Power Smart Neighborhood will be served by ...
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Growing Demand for New Production Homes with Solar
Based on data provided by the California Solar Initiative (CSI),sales of new production homes with rooftop solar power systems nearly doubled from 2011 to 2012, signaling increasing home buyer demand to control monthly electricity costs using clean, renewable solar power. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: ...
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ConnectDER Granted U.S. Patent for Innovations to their Industry-Leading Plug and Play Distributed Energy Resource Connection
Image Source: ConnectDER ConnectDER, an innovative company that enables utilities and homeowners to expand access to distributed energy resources, has received a patent for innovations to their 'plug and play' solutions for distributed energy resources. The patent is for a reinvention of the standard utility power meter; one that combines the ubiquitous metering and communications of a smart ...
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SDG&E Pioneers Virtual Power Plant to Help Ease Strain on the Power Grid During Extreme Heat
As extreme heat records fall across the West and strain the power grid, San Diego Gas & Electric is piloting a virtual power plant (VPP) to reduce energy demand and put electricity back on the grid during peak hours -- through leveraging the capabilities of customer-owned smart thermostats, rooftop solar, energy storage and other connected resources such as water pumps. A VPP uses advanced ...
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Constellation, GE Team with The Home Depot to Install Largest Rooftop Solar Array in Washington, D.C.
Constellation, an Exelon company, and GE recently (5/30) announced the completion of a 554 kilowatt (DC) solar generation project for The Home Depot’s Washington, D.C., store. The solar project, now the largest single rooftop array in the District,* is expected to supply more than 9.9 million kilowatt hours of electricity to The Home Depot over a 15-year period, accounting for an anticipated ...
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Pure energies and SMA America sign 17 megawatt supply agreement for Ontario solar market
Pure energies, an Ontario-based turnkey solar electricity facilitator with a unique market channel for residential solar systems has announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with SMA America, LLC outlining the supply of 17 MW of solar inverters in 2010, with a target goal of 50 MW over the next three years. The supply partnership will allow Pure energies to provide Ontario consumers with ...
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Geo`s Whole Home Optimization Trial Shows Dramatic Energy and Carbon Savings
UK households are saving an average of 49% on their annual energy bills and cutting their carbon footprint by 14% as part of a trial led by smart energy specialist, geo, to assess how real-time smart meter data enables the Whole Home Optimization of energy. Funded by the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the trial, known as Core4Grid, uses geo's Whole Home ...
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GlaxoSmithKline consumer healthcare begins installation of North America`s largest rooftop solar array
GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) Consumer Healthcare is taking its commitment to renewable energy to the next level. Today, GSK begins installing North America's largest rooftop solar array at its Northeast Regional Distribution Center (RDC) in York, Pa. GSK's sustainability initiatives were just recognized in Newsweek's "2010 Green Ranking" as ranking fifth among the greenest companies in the world. ...
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California Energy Commission Recognizes Leadership of State in Energy, Climate Policy
The California Energy Commission voted recently (8/1) to approve the first in a two-part report to the Governor and Legislature assessing major energy trends and issues facing the state's electricity, natural gas, and transportation fuel sectors.Volume I of the 2018 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) Update summarizes California's global leadership in climate policy, showing how the state's ...
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DOE Announces New Initiatives and Growing Support to Rapidly Increase Community Solar Deployment
At this week's (Jan 25) National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) Annual Summit, the U.S. Department of Energy announced several new initiatives to unlock barriers to the deployment of community solar. Together, these initiatives will help achieve the NCSP's target to enable community solar to power the equivalent of 5 million households and create $1 billion in energy bill savings by 2025. "In ...
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China Sunergy Announces Shipment of 1.59 MW in Solar Modules to UK for Unique Rooftop Project
China Sunergy Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: CSUN) ("China Sunergy" or the "Company"), a specialized solar cell and module manufacturer, today announced that it had shipped 1.59 MW in solar panels to Emotion Energy who, in partnership with Edison Energy, installed solar panels for 117 houses in a residential rooftop project in Faifley, Scotland for the Knowes Housing Association Scotland. This project, ...
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Governor Hochul Announces Four Gigawatts of Distributed Solar Installed in New York
New York Governor Kathy Hochul this week announced four gigawatts of distributed solar—community, residential, small commercial and industrial projects—have been installed across the state, enough to power more than 710,000 homes, underscoring New York's leadership in growing one of the strongest solar markets in the nation. Since the launch of the NY-Sun initiative, the cost of solar in New York ...
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SunRun and Sierra Club Join Forces to Expand Rooftop Solar in Southern California
SunRun, the nation's leading home solar company, today announced a partnership with the Sierra Club, America's largest grassroots environmental organization, to bring affordable solar to thousands of Southern California homes. The partnership kicks off the start of summer and helps families save money by taking control of their energy costs. "This is a high priority for the Sierra Club. In ...
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Southern Company subsidiaries Alabama Power and Georgia Power Continue Building the Future of Energy with Innovative Smart Neighborhood Projects
Southern Company and its Alabama Power and Georgia Power subsidiaries have officially announced Smart Neighborhood™ initiatives that will provide customers with state-of-the-art home construction, distributed energy resources – including solar and battery energy storage – and smart home appliances and technologies.The first-of-a-kind Smart Neighborhoods – located in Atlanta and suburban ...
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