SOLANA BEACH — The Solana Beach City Council passed a resolution this week meant to protect solar energy in the city as investor-owned utilities push for new net energy metering that advocates say harms renewable energy. The city is just the second public jurisdiction in the state to pass such a resolution following the Santa …
When my daughter was less than one month old, I awoke to the sound of sirens and chaos in Santa Rosa, and will never forget opening my door to a wall of fire. Only a few miles away, Coffey Park residents had seen their entire neighborhood levelled in a matter of hours. While the Tubbs …
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Policymakers should support policies that make it more affordable for everyone to access rooftop solar Pastor William Smart (File Photo) It is a story as old as this country: a new technology is developed, programs and policies are offered to help consumers to adopt the technology and bring down the costs over time, and just …
La Comisión de Servicios Públicos de California (CPUC) llevará a cabo un En Banc virtual sobre Costos y Tarifas de Energía para evaluar aún más las propuestas de Rentabilidad para controlar los costos y mitigar las tarifas eléctricas y de gas natural. El En Banc permitirá a los responsables de la toma de decisiones escuchar …
The following is a contributed article by Dave Rosenfeld, executive director at the Solar Rights Alliance. Recent coverage of California’s solar net metering battle has not necessarily provided a full picture of what’s happening in the state. One could conclude that California’s larger environmental community is siding with the utility-driven effort to slow the growth …
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Published: 15 Feb 2022, 10:38 The VPPA with Goldman Sachs in the latest in a string of such agreements from NextEnergy Capital. Image: NextEnergy Capital. NextEnergy Capital has signed a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) with Goldman Sachs in the UK, which will be delivered in 2023. The VPPA will be powered by three solar …
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Summer Rogers had her eyes on solar energy for years. But it wasn’t until 2018 that she’d finally been able to get together the funds to install it at home. She lives in a duplex, living in one unit herself and her mother in the other, and solar now powers everything in both, except for …
Published: 15 Feb 2022, 15:03 Strategic Power Project’s managing director Paul Carson. Image: Strategic Power Projects Strategic Power Projects has submitted a planning application for a 125MW solar PV project in Swordletown, Ireland. The companywill invest around £84 million (€100 million) in the project, which will deliver significant contributions to the local economy and community groups …
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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in ongoing efforts to reduce the impacts of utility Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events, will hold public briefings on the operations and performance of the state’s investor-owned utilities during the 2021 PSPS events in California to capture lessons learned and improve performance in 2022. WHEN: Two days, as …
TOPSHOT – A store burns as the Camp fire tears through Paradise, California on November 8, 2018. – A … [+] rapidly spreading, late-season wildfire in northern California has burned 20,000 acres of land and prompted authorities to issue evacuation orders for thousands of people. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP …
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