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Month: July 2023

A new public utility for Maine would speed clean energy, say advocates

A Maine referendum would create a new publicly owned utility that could purchase and operate the assets of the state’s two investor-owned utilities. Advocates say that would speed Maine’s path to 80% renewables by 2030. July 10, 2023 Maine voters will decide in a referendum on November 7 whether to create a new nonprofit, the …

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Check out this Solar Mapping & Prediction study for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

With funding support from the Grayce B. Kerr Fund, Inc., Chesapeake Conservancy’s data science team developed a deep learning model that automatically maps ground-mounted solar arrays in satellite imagery. Using this AI system, annual maps were created of all solar arrays within Washington, D.C., Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and West Virginia from 2017 …

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Duke Energy unveils Kentucky’s largest utility-scale rooftop solar site at Amazon Air Hub

Duke Energy customers in Northern Kentucky are benefiting from additional clean, renewable solar energy as a result of a new utility-scale rooftop solar project now generating power for area homes and businesses.   Kentucky’s largest rooftop solar array operates more than 5,600 photovoltaic panels on the 800,000-square-foot Amazon Air Hub rooftop adjacent to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. This Duke …

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How California employers can reimburse EV drivers for charging at home

If you are not reimbursing fleet drivers in electric vehicles for charging at home you are putting your company in legal jeopardy. Having employees bring electric fleet vehicles home at night to charge can save a company thousands of dollars a year in electricity costs and employee time, but failing to adequately reimburse those employees …

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Ballasted racking from PowerField Energy scales up to utility-scale installation

PowerRack is PowerField’s portable, ballasted racking system that is used in residential, commercial, industrial, and now utility-scale solar. July 10, 2023 An idea that began with PowerField Energy co-founders David Flory and Paul Burdick tinkering in a garage is now a growing company scaling up in production, funding and project pipeline. Both Flory and Burdick …

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U.S. clean hydrogen roadmap too ambitious, says analysts

Clean Energy Associates ‘senior director, George Touloupas, and Wood Mackenzie principal analyst, Hector Arreola, suggest The Biden-Harris Administration address cost and scaling roadblocks to meet the U.S. National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap’s ambitious goals.  July 10, 2023 Since releasing the U.S. National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap on June 6, experts including Clean Energy …

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Sunrise brief: Massachusetts has 52 GW of “top rated” solar potential

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Using existing fences as near-zero-cost racking solution for PV deployment

Researchers are proposing to use steel zip ties to attach solar modules to fences in animal farms as a low-cost racking solution for agrivoltaic applications. They found the proposed approach is technically and economically viable, provided careful wind load tests are conducted on the fences. July 7, 2023 From pv magazine global A U.S.-Canadian group …

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