TILONIA, India — It’s the Harvard of rural India, minus wingtips or heels: a 50-year-old institution called Barefoot College that offers lessons for empowering people worldwide. Maybe even in America. Barefoot College does empowerment as well as any institution I’ve ever seen, and here’s what that looks like in the rural state of Rajasthan: An …
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The Honnold Foundation, along with its partners Casa Pueblo and the Community Solar Energy Association of Adjuntas (ACESA), have completed a solar microgrid installation in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. The project, which is Puerto Rico’s first cooperatively managed, community-owned solar microgrid, includes approximately 700 solar panels that power 14 businesses in seven buildings around the town’s …
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Standard Solar acquires New Leaf’s solar project portfolio in New York and Massachusetts. March 22, 2023 Standard Solar has acquired a planned 21 MW of solar projects in New York and Massachusetts from New Leaf Energy. New Leaf Energy was formed last July as a spin off from Borrego, and was purchased by Energy Capital …
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Enel North America has partnered with Nestlé to be the sole tax equity investor for its 208 MWdc Ganado solar-plus-storage project in Jackson County, Texas. Nestlé will also purchase the renewable energy attributes from the entire output of the solar plant, helping advance the company’s efforts to create a more sustainable future and reduce greenhouse gas emissions across …
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The 1,734-module solar array was designed with DC-optimized SolarEdge inverters. March 22, 2023 One of the top 100 largest car dealerships in the United States, Arlington Toyota of Palatine, Illinois, commissioned Texas installer Solar One to build a 1,734-module solar array on its 2.9-acre building. The rooftop solar array generated 256,930 kWh of electricity in its …
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Silicon Ranch Corporation and Bolivar Energy Authority (BEA) flipped the switch on the new 3.25-MWAC Bolivar Solar Farm in Hardeman County, Tennessee, along with Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The solar facility will provide enough low-cost solar energy to power more than 500 homes and help keep rates low for BEA’s more than 11,000 customers. Despite …
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Standard Solar has acquired a planned 21 MW of solar projects in New York and Massachusetts from New Leaf Energy. “Community solar projects like these will generate clean, reliable energy needed by residents and businesses and are integral in helping New York and Massachusetts reach their renewable energy and climate goals,” said Michael Streams, chief …
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The advocacy group NextGen Highways has found that Minnesota voters favor using highways for transmission. With funding from Breakthrough Energy, an initiative of philanthropist Bill Gates, the group plans to launch state and national advocacy coalitions. March 22, 2023 A survey by NextGen Highways has found that 79% of Minnesota voters support siting new transmission …
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With more than 70 EV charging networks currently deployed in North America, a Wood Mackenzie report forecasts rapid growth. March 22, 2023 The move to increase adoption of zero-emission vehicles requires an accelerated build-out of electric-vehicle (EV) charging stations. Wood Mackenzie corroborates, noting in its report, Commercial landscape of EV charging networks in North America, …
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There are more than 10,000 closed landfills in the United States, and it has been determined that closed landfills could host more than 60 GW of solar capacity — enough to power 7.8 million homes or the state of South Carolina. There has also been an 80% increase in solar landfill projects over the past …
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