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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A floating island of solar panels is being tested in Chile as a way to generate clean energy and reduce water loss at mine operations, a cornerstone of the Andean country’s economy that uses huge amounts of electricity and water. The experimental “Las Tortolas” power-generating island is being run by the giant Anglo American mining…
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Nautilus wins financing for 6.6MW community solar project in the state of Maryland. Nautilus Solar Energy has closed debt financing from Seminole Financial Services for the construction of a 6.6MW community solar project in Maryland, US. The solar facility is expected to become of one of the largest residential community solar projects in the state.…
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Does charging your EV with solar energy directly from the road sound like a futuristic tale? Not in the Netherlands, where two more SolaRoad test tracks were opened last week. The SolaRoads are equipped with solar panels which produce about 30,000kWh of electricity per 100 meter per year. If the entire road network of the Netherlands were…
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