Minnesota regulators have approved fatter incentives for residents subscribing to community solar gardens in the state. Community solar gardens initially attracted a lot of residential customers. But developers say changes that raised the cost confined demand to commercial customers. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on Thursday moved to fix that, at least in a small way. Developers had sought even …
<!– googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘post_link_unit’); }); –> Image via Susan Ellis, Bugwood.org. While millions of Americans took a break from their daily routines for the August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse, they might not have noticed a similar phenomenon happening nearby: In the path of totality, bees took a break from their daily routines, too. To study the solar eclipse’s influence …
France’s latest rooftop solar auction saw prices dropping 5 percent compared to a previous round in April, according to the government. The tender, for 230 megawatts of rooftop solar across 392 projects, saw costs falling from an average of €80.80 (USD $92.77 at current exchange rates) in April to €76.80 ($88.22) per megawatt-hour. Larger projects within the tender went as …
<!– //www.cnbc.com/staticContent/showads.js –> MENUSEARCH QUOTES Tech Blue Origin founder and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos predicts we’ll have 1 trillion humans in the solar system one day — and he laid out Monday how the rocket company plans to help get there. “I won’t be alive to see the fulfillment of that long-term mission,” Bezos said at the Wired 25th anniversary …
Amazon announced two new initiatives today that are aimed at reducing its environmental impact. The first is a $10 million investment in the Closed Loop Fund, an effort to pool corporate resources to help the US improve its municipal recycling programs. The other is a solar energy project in the United Kingdom that will see Amazon install 20 megawatts worth …
<!– //www.cnbc.com/staticContent/showads.js –> MENUSEARCH QUOTES Sustainable Energy Tech giant Amazon is set to install solar panels at its fulfillment centers across the U.K. The panels will have an installed capacity of 20 megawatts (MW), the firm said in an announcement Tuesday. Amazon said it expected the panels to “generate the equivalent amount of electricity required to power over 4,500 U.K. …
Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday approved one of the first solar farms in Washington state, a Kittitas County project that will spread across some 200 acres of farmland. The Columbia Solar Project would generate up to 25 megawatts of renewable power, enough electricity for about 5,000 homes, according to Inslee, who gave final state backing to the solar farm that …
Solar power now accounts for around 1% of the world’s electricity generation, up from a negligible amount of solar capacity only a decade ago. But that’s just scratching the surface of the industry’s potential. Solar energy is the most abundant form of energy on earth, with enough solar energy hitting the planet’s surface every hour to provide for all of …
Today’s weather is not unusual for southern Idaho. We average more than 200 days of sunshine every year and more Idahoans are taking advantage of that free source of energy to help the environment and save money, like a soon-to-be solar-powered winery. “In terms of wind and solar replacing hydro-electric and coal, I think you’re on a 10-year glide path …
A vehicle sits partially submerged in floodwaters as a fallen electricity transmission tower lays on the ground in the background after Hurricane Michael hit in Panama City, Florida, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg Hurricane Michael, the most powerful storm to hit the Florida panhandle on record, caused loss of life and rampant destruction, flattening entire towns …