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Month: March 2023

Sunrise brief: Residential solar quotes average $2.85 per watt

People on the move: GridBeyond, Qcells, Sunpower and more  Job moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities, and energy transition finance. Bill Gates funds advocacy for siting new transmission along highways  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 …

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Opinion | Can’t Read? Here’s a ‘Barefoot College’ for You.

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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Solar microgrid in Puerto Rico empowers community to take control of energy future

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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Enel, Nestle invest in 208 MW Ganado solar project in Texas

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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Rooftop solar installed on 3-acre Toyota dealership building

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 flips switch on 3.25-MW Tennessee solar project

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 acquires 21 MW community solar project portfolio from New Leaf Energy

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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Bill Gates funds advocacy for siting new transmission along highways

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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Fast EV charging market to grow sixtyfold by 2050

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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