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Community Solar Year 1 — A New Program Gets Underway

January 9, 2021 admin 0 Comments clean power, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, common energy, community solar, consumer technology, energy solutions, energy trust of oregon, green economy, INTERVIEWS, market research, Oregon, oregon shines, research, rose cdc, Solar energy

Credit to Author: Joe Wachunas| Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 01:06:37 +0000

Community solar is the idea that folks who can’t install solar panels on their rooftops — either because their roof isn’t in good shape or they don’t have the upfront capital or they rent and don’t own their home — can essentially buy solar panels at a solar farm (usually off in a field somewhere relatively nearby), receive credit off their utility bills, and take part in growing their solar energy locally

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Signing Up For Community Solar: My Experience

December 21, 2020 admin clean energy, clean power, co2 emissions, community solar, Oregon, pv projects, Solar energy, US

Credit to Author: Joe Wachunas| Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 17:16:25 +0000

I decided to look into community solar, interview some people involved in the program, and sign up myself to see how it’s going and to better understand how community solar works in general.

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“Switch On” — New Documentary On Energy Poverty With Scott Tinker

December 6, 2020 admin bureau of economic geology, chibwe, clean power, community solar, green economy, grid, microgrids, Off The Grid, solar electric light fund self, switch energy alliance

Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 19:05:33 +0000

This feature-length film illustrates the profound challenges that energy poverty poses for nearly one billion people on planet Earth. It’s a follow up to the earlier released documentary “Switch,” and this time around I must admit that I got quite emotional watching it

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US Funding For Solar–Hydro Hybrid Energy, Microgrid, Grid Storage, & Blockchain Research

November 26, 2020 admin batteries, binghamton university, blockchain, clean power, community solar, consumers energy, Department of Energy (DOE), doe solar energy technologies office, duke energy, eagle creek renewable energy, electric power research institute, Energy Storage, florida state university, grid, grid storage, hybrid power plants, hydroelectric, lithium-ion batteries, microgrids, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), oak ridge national laboratory, office of energy efficiency and renewable energy, policy & politics, reorg: resilience and stability oriented cellular grid formation and optimization for communities with solar pvs and mobile energy storages, research, resilient operation of networked community microgrids with high solar penetration, rooftop solar, sapphire: stability-augmented optimal control of hybrid pv plants with very high penetration of inverter-based resources, SCIENCE, secure — solar energy community resiliency, Smart Grid, Solar energy, solar power plants, solar–hydro hybrid power plants, state university of new york, subsidies, university of central florida, university of north carolina, university of north carolina at charlotte, virginia polytechnic institute and state university

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:43:52 +0000

This fourth round of US DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office projects concerns solar–hydro hybrid power plants, other solar hybrid power plants, microgrids, grid storage integration, and blockchain technology

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Our Next President, Joe Biden, Should Do These 21 Things

November 8, 2020 admin autonomous vehicles, batteries, cafe standards, cars, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, community solar, Congress, consumer technology, corporate average fuel economy (cafe), Democrats, Department of Energy, electric cars, Electric vehicles, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, FRACKING, green economy, green jobs, grid, Joe Biden, kamala harris, kigali amendment to the montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer, lithium, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, Military, Mining, Mitch McConnell, nickel, Paris Climate Accords, Paris climate agreement, policy & politics, rooftop solar, secret service, Solar energy, tesla cybertruck, trains / rail, US military, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 07:19:02 +0000

Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States of America, and Kamala Harris will break through many barriers to become the next Vice President of the United States of America

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US Energy Dept. Aims For Affordable Solar Power, With A Little Help From Friends

October 29, 2020 admin autogrid, chanel, clean power, community choice aggregation, community solar, DOE, Electricity, erica mackie, grid alternatives, jim spiers, nreca, renewable energy, rural electric cooperatives, Solar energy, sunrun, tim sears, United States, US

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:30:42 +0000

Oil and gas stabbed in back by new US Energy Dept. plan for getting more affordable solar power to more people, more quickly

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Executives Tout Storage as Key for Distributed Generation

October 20, 2020 admin aes, community solar, distributed energy, distributed energy experience, energy storage association, Nuclear, Renewables

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:26:55 +0000

The post Executives Tout Storage as Key for Distributed Generation appeared first on POWER Magazine.

The growth of energy storage, along with deployment of new technologies, is at the heart of the future of distributed power generation. That’s according to industry executives participating in POWER’s Distributed Energy Experience. Woody Rubin, president of AES Distributed Energy, provided a keynote address on Oct. 20, talking about the rise of solar-plus-storage applications and […]

The post Executives Tout Storage as Key for Distributed Generation appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Equitable Electrification

October 12, 2020 admin clean power, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, community solar, consumer technology, electrify everything, environmental justice, equitable electrification, green economy, grid, INTERVIEWS, Oregon, oriana magnera, policy & politics, policy research, Portland, research, Solar energy, verde

Credit to Author: Joe Wachunas| Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:31:55 +0000

Electrifying everything is increasingly viewed as one of our best strategies for decarbonizing our societies and solving the threat of climate change

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6 Rockland County Communities Launch Cost-Cutting Renewable Energy Initiatives

October 9, 2020 admin clean power, community solar, joule, joule community power, New York, new york community solar, rockland community power, Solar energy, solar power plants, US, us community solar market

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:53:28 +0000

Community solar power and community choice aggregation are two of the hot trends in the US solar energy industry. Now, more residents of New York are getting access to the community solar power and community choice aggregation