Baltic Nation Deploys Solar Power For 100% Energy Independence

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 15:29:46 +0000

Solar power is featured in the reconstruction of the historic Estonian National Library in Talinn, deploying building-integrated solar panels that match the original roofing material.

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How To Get The Benefits Of Powerwall On A Shoestring Budget

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 15:03:57 +0000

Ideally, we’d all have a rooftop full of solar power and a big bank of batteries in a large garage. This would not only power our homes 24/7 with clean solar power, but it would also keep the power bill down, feed clean energy to the grid, and keep your … [continued]

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Volt Solar Tile Set to Expand into the US Market

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:47:00 +0000

Readers of CleanTechnica may remember the article about the innovative Volt Solar Tile published a year ago. At that time, Peter Leeson, the visionary founder of Volt Solar Tile, made some predictions about where the company would be by the beginning of 2025. We caught up on zoom yesterday to … [continued]

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Eastport, Maine Is The Ideal Place For Solar, Tidal Power, And A Microgrid

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:28:56 +0000

When the sun rises on America each day, it hits Eastport, Maine — the easternmost point of the continental US — first. Eastport is a small community of 1300 hardy people who live on an island on the edge of the Bay of Fundy. If you are looking to be … [continued]

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500 Renault 5 Carsharing EVs Used in European First V2G Scheme

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 04:17:02 +0000

13 years ago, Utrecht brightened our day with news of a Traffic Garden — something so basic, so common sense, and yet so amazing. Things are how they should be. Flowing with well-trained bicyclists is just one of the ways Utrecht succeeds with high-efficiency transportation, though. 9 years ago, Utrecht … [continued]

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CHARGE Officially Opens 1st Off-Grid, Green EV Charging Station In South Africa

Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 02:16:28 +0000

At about this time last year, we wrote about Zero Carbon Charge’s plans to roll out electric vehicle charging stations charged 100% by renewable energy. At that time, they had just announced the start of construction at one of their sites, the start of South Africa’s first national network of … [continued]

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Masdar on a Giant Clean Power Investment Streak

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 02:14:47 +0000

UAE clean energy giant Masdar is on a big clean power investment streak. It has announced more clean energy project progress this month than most companies in the field announce in a year. Hold onto your hats, this is going to be a big news update. Belt & Road Initiative … [continued]

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Two US Representatives Try To Suspend 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:27:54 +0000

The 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit is a top incentive for stimulating and supporting clean energy and battery manufacturing in the US. However, at the moment, there are ways that Chinese companies can benefit from this, if they build factories in the US. That is completely unacceptable to some … [continued]

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Graph: The Enormous Increase in US Manufacturing Construction from Biden’s Green New Deal Policies

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 04:58:04 +0000

Democrats couldn’t say it, because “Green New Deal” supposedly became some kind of tainted and negative phrase (I’ll save my rant on how to win messaging battles like this for another day), but the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law combined to really basically become the “Green New Deal” … [continued]

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New Study Examines the Impacts of Wind Turbines on Our Visual Landscape

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 04:37:36 +0000

Between 70% and 90% of Americans support using wind energy. One study that examined decades of national popular acceptance of wind energy makes that claim. However, local opposition to wind-generating projects can occasionally (or often) impede them, partly due to people’s perceptions of turbines once they are coming near. Over … [continued]

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