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IKEA to Power-up Solar Energy Panels at Tejon, CA Distribution Center May 11
IKEA: WHAT: IKEA – the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, its solar installation partner REC Solar, Tejon Ranch and community leaders will officially ‘flip a switch’ to officially turn on the solar energy system installed atop the Swedish company’s Tejon distribution center in Kern ...
By REC Solar
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Tesla officially acquires SolarCity
After shareholders voted to approve a merger between Tesla Motors and SolarCity by a wide margin, Tesla announced this week it has officially closed the SolarCity acquisition. The company announced the merger with a brief statement on Monday. “We’re pleased to announce that Tesla’s acquisition of SolarCity closed this morning,” the statement said. The merger positions ...
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Coca-Cola Hellenic cuts CO2 emissions by adding solar power to its energy reduction programme
Coca-Cola Hellenic announced that it has launched an innovative renewable energy initiative by installing rooftop solar panels on all of its bottling plants in Italy. The announcement came at the inauguration of a combined heat and power (CHP*) generation system at the Company"s Nogara production facility near Verona in Italy. Solar panels and CHP technology are being introduced in partnership ...
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The Great Transition Is Here!
The Earth Policy Institute’s 11th and final book, The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy will be hitting bookstores on April 20. The Great Transition, written by EPI’s research team—Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams—focuses on a rapidly evolving global movement toward cleaner sources of energy, driven by ...
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Winter Park Falls
On Valentine’s Day, Friday, February 14, at 10:30 a.m., the City of Winter Park will show how much it “loves” its newly installed rooftop solar panels at the Public Works Compound located at 1409 Howell Branch Road. Last summer, the City Commission approved an agreement with Clean Footprint, central Florida’s leading solar development and finance company to add solar ...
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More ComEd Customers Going Solar
More than 4,000 ComEd customers are now receiving compensation for the excess energy they generate using renewable energy sources – primarily rooftop solar panels – up from 900 customers two years ago as the transition to a cleaner future in Illinois gains momentum. “We’ve always known there is pent-up demand for solar energy among our customers, but the interest so far this year is exceeding our ...
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Third cycle of Emirates Energy Award launched
Dubai is giving building owners another motivation to shift to solar energy apart from helping Mother Earth — an environment award and a cash prize totalling $1 million (Dh3.67 million). The Dubai Supreme Council of Energy (DSCE) on Wednesday launched the third cycle of the Emirates Energy Award (EEA) 2016-2017 under the theme ‘Innovative Solutions for Clean Energy’. 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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New York PSC mandates grid-scale storage projects for investor-owned utilities
With the mass proliferation of energy storage capacity, New York regulators have mandated investor-owned utilities deploy energy storage systems by the 2018. The state Public Service Commission (PSC) issued an order last week requiring each individual utility to have energy storage projects “deployed and operating at no fewer than two separate distribution substations or feeders.” ...
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Construction Starts on Solar Installation at Patriot Place
NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG) and The Kraft Group have started construction of a futuristic solar canopy, part of a 1 megawatt (MW) solar installation at Patriot Place to be completed by the start of the 2012-2013 pro football season. The canopy will generate clean, renewable power while providing shade and cover for visitors to the shopping, retail and dining ...
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AEP to refocus investments on regulated operations, renewables
After taking a $2.3 billion charge to reflect declining values of its coal-fired power plants, American Electric Power (AEP) has announced it will be focusing investments on regulated operations and renewable energy. AEP says it will invest approximately $17.3 billion over the period 2017 to 2019 in its core regulated operations and contracted renewables. Most of the new spending will be in ...
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Safeway Opens First of 23 Solar-Powered Markets
PLEASANTON, California, September 13, 2007 (ENS) - Safeway Inc. today announced a new environmental project to power 23 California stores with renewable solar energy. The company installed solar panels atop a newly renovated Safeway Lifestyle store in Dublin, California and plans to extend the program to nearly two dozen stores as part of a broader renewable energy initiative. California ...
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Consumers Reach Nearly 23 TWh of Energy Savings with Oracle Utilities Opower
Household energy consumers around the globe supported by Oracle Utilities Opower Energy Efficiency programs have reached nearly 23-terawatt hours (TWh) in cumulative energy savings. This equates to enough energy to take every household in Osaka off the grid for a year or to charge every personal mobile phone in Japan for 74 years. The digital revolution has enabled consumers to better control ...
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ABB and Fortum to develop large-scale smart grid for sustainable city project
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, will work on a joint development project with the Nordic utility Fortum to design and install a large-scale smart grid in a new district of the city of Stockholm. The R&D project will test the concept of a flexible, low-emission power network in the Stockholm Royal Seaport area as part of a larger initiative to cut emissions in the ...
By ABB
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Environmental groups seek strength in diversity
Thousands of young environmentalists from around the country are heading to Pittsburgh, planning to strengthen the green movement by involving more people of different races and backgrounds. The four-day Power Shift conference beginning Friday takes on some traditional issues in a new way. Organizers are fighting coal mining, fracking for oil and gas, and climate change, but doing it through ...
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Berkeley Lab Aims to Strengthen the Cybersecurity of the Grid
As the U.S. electricity grid continues to modernize, it will mean things like better reliability and resilience, lower environmental impacts, greater integration of renewable energy, as well as new computing and communications technologies to monitor and manage the increasing number of devices that connect to the grid. However, that enhanced connectivity for grid operators and consumers also ...
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Aging electrical grid could cost $5 trillion to replace
The aging U.S. electricity grid, which has been an integral part of American life since the late 19th century, could cost almost $5 trillion upgrade and replace, according to a new analysis. Joshua D. Rhodes, a Postdoctoral Researcher of Energy at the University of Texas at Austin, says that the currently depreciated value of the energy grid, which includes power plants, transmission lines, ...
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Greener Roofs
A proposed ASTM International standard will provide general guidance regarding roofing system considerations and selection to building designers, builders and owners who want to install and maintain sustainable roofing systems, which may include rooftop vegetative systems, solar panels, specialized insulation (ballasting) and other components deemed sustainable on top of the roofing system. ...
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Large Corporations Are Leading America’s Surge in Solar Deployment
America's top companies are investing in solar in record amounts, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association's brand new Solar Means Business 2017 report, which tracks on-site commercial solar installations and ranks top corporate solar users.This year's report contains data from over 4,000 companies, totaling more than 2.5 gigawatts of solar capacity across approximately 7,400 solar ...
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Ten Times More Solar Power Coming to New York With Expansion of State Program
The Cuomo administration today took the final step in approving a major expansion of the state’s NY-Sun Initiative—a program that is successfully boosting solar power across the state—extending it through 2023 and supporting a tenfold increase in the clean energy source. A statement from NRDC Clean Energy Counsel Kit Kennedy follows: “In just two years, New York has gone ...
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