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First Solar Homes Power Electric Car
How would you like never having to pay for gasoline? With the just completed “Plug Into History” press event featuring the Nissan LEAF with a City Ventures home pre-wired for electric cars, the dream is now realized. Integrated with each residence, City Ventures homes feature solar power and energy-efficient design, bringing energy bills to near ...
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Standard Solar to Launch “RE:NEW” Podcast Series Focused on Solar and Energy Efficiency
Standard Solar, Inc., a national leader in the full-service development, installation and financing of solar electric systems for residential, commercial, government and utility customers, today announced the company is launching a podcast series created to provide insight and information to help drive industry thought and market awareness of key ...
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Pecan Street Releases Powerful Residential Electricity Dataset with Potential to Revolutionize Electricity Management
Pecan Street Inc. has released a groundbreaking dataset containing one year of one-second interval consumer electricity data collected through its volunteer residential research network. The dataset includes measurements from 40 homes for whole home electricity use, solar generation, electric vehicle charging, HVAC, major appliances and other in-home circuits. The dataset is free for ...
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Solar power `taking off in Bangladesh`
Bangladesh has doubled the number of homes with solar-powered electricity systems to 800,000 over the last year, with demand is still growing. "You can call it a green revolution, since our combined efforts are helping [to] light remote villages and reduce carbon emissions," said Abser Kamal, chief executive officer of Grameen Shakti, an organisation that promotes the use of renewable energy. ...
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SunPower and Wallbox Team Up to Integrate Solar and Home Electric Vehicle Charging
SunPower Corp., a leading solar technology and energy services provider, recently announced it is teaming up with Wallbox, a leading provider of electric vehicle charging solutions, to make the switch to an electric lifestyle more convenient, affordable, and sustainable. Through the strategic alliance, new SunPower customers can opt to install a Wallbox home EV charger at the same time as their ...
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SHARC International Introduces Mass Market MAKO System
Award-winning waste water heat exchange system now available for individual homes Vancouver – (March 13, 2018) – SHARC International Systems Inc. (CSE: SHRC) (FSE: IWIA) (OTCQB: INTWF) (“SHARC” or “the Company”), is pleased to announce it has completed the design and fabrication of the MAKO™ waste water heat exchange system. The system is currently ...
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Best Solar Companies in Arizona To Install Solar Panel on Home To Reduce Electricity Bill
You can now locate the top rated Arizona solar companies right from the comfort of your home and that too as per your personal convenience. All that you need to have is a personal computer and an internet connection in your house. Besides, when you go online, you also access help from an expert who is well versed with the exact requirements of the process. By going solar in Arizona, you could ...
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US Air Force switches on largest solar power plant
North America's largest solar photovoltaic system is now up and generating power at Nellis Air Force Base in the sunny desert of southern Nevada. The $100 million solar power plant at Nellis will supply about 25 percent of the total power used at the base, where 12,000 people live and work. The 14 megawatt photovoltaic array will generate more than 30 million kilowatt-hours of electricity ...
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Xcel Energy To Test Battery Storage Technology In Stapleton
Xcel Energy is partnering with battery vendors Sunverge Energy and Northern Reliability, Inc. to test battery storage technology to maximize the use of rooftop solar energy while ensuring the safety and reliability of the electric grid. The two-year pilot project is taking place in Stapleton's North Central Park and Eastbridge neighborhoods. As customers' demand for solar energy in their homes ...
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UN Climate Chief says Technology has Changed Carbon Politics
Technological advances that have reduced prices and improved efficiency of renewable energy have helped transform the politics around climate change since 2009 when an attempt to forge a global deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions failed, the U.N. climate chief said Thursday. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, said countries were ...
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U.S. EPA Honors GRID Alternatives for Solar Panel Job Training
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld today recognized nonprofit GRID Alternatives as a Climate Change Champion. The EPA Pacific Southwest Region’s Environmental Award was presented at a ceremony hosted by the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians in Hopland, California. “EPA applauds GRID Alternatives for championing clean technologies to ...
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REC Solar Partners with GE as Solar EV Convergence Gains Traction
REC Solar, a leading provider of home, commercial and government solar electric systems in the United States, has teamed up with GE Energy Industrial Solutions, a leading supplier of power generation and energy delivery technologies, to distribute the GE WattStation™ electric vehicle (EV) charger. The partnership signals the movement toward the ...
By REC Solar
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U.S. EPA Honors GRID Alternatives as Climate Change Champion for Solar Panel Job Training Work in Low-Income Communities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld today recognized nonprofit GRID Alternatives as a Climate Change Champion. The EPA Pacific Southwest Region’s Environmental Award was presented at a ceremony hosted by the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians in Hopland, California. GRID Alternatives has worked with various low income communities and tribes ...
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LG Electronics And Sense Announce Collaboration On AI-Driven Home Solar And Usage Monitoring
LG Electronics has announced its collaboration with Sense, a leading provider of home energy monitors for consumers, to deliver to LG residential solar customers detailed, real-time data on their homes' solar generation and power usage down to the appliance level using the Sense Solar Home Energy Monitor.Consumers have little visibility into their day-to-day electricity consumption and how using ...
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Solar Panel Systems for Homes to Become Common Occurrence In The Near Future
The solar panel systems for homes are very much in vogue across the country. The recent innovations in the solar power technology have promoted the manufacturers to bring out affordable modules for homes. However, there is a wide range of systems and every household has different needs. The online consumers can browse through a lot of information about manufacturers and the solar panel system ...
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10 Smart Energy Startups Worth Watching in 2017
“Tomorrow’s energy is decentralised, decarbonised and digital,” says Rockstart Smart Energy Accelerator Director Freerk Bisschop. As an energy professional, staying updated with the latest industry trends also means keeping an eye on the up-and-coming energy innovators. That’s why we’re so excited to share our picks for the most promising energy startups to watch in ...
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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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Asia powers into the forefront of solar revolution
Solar power is on course to overtake nuclear as a primary source of electricity production as the price of photovoltaic (PV) panels continues to fall. Mass production in China and Taiwan has helped to increase the extraordinary growth of the solar power across the world and has led to an 80% reduction in the cost of panels since 2008. Europe, and particularly Germany and Italy, led the way in ...
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Solar and Battery Storage to Participate in New England’s Wholesale Capacity Market
In a historic breakthrough for clean, distributed energy, Sunrun Inc.(Nasdaq:RUN), the nation’s leading home solar, battery storage and energy services company, this week won a bid to deliver home solar and batteries as a source of energy capacity to ISO New England, the grid operator for one of the largest electricity markets in the United States. Sunrun’s participation in New ...
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Energy Leaders Collaborate to Power All Electric, Solar-and Battery-Powered Microgrid Communities
SunPower Corp., University of California, Irvine (UCI), Schneider Electric, and Southern California Edison (SCE) announced their collaboration this week with KB Home, as the strategy, research, technology, and energy providers for the homebuilder’s newly launched Energy-Smart Connected Communities in Menifee, California. More than 200 state-of-the-art, all electric homes will be solar ...
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