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An activist group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America
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Roger Houser's ranching business was getting squeezed. The calves he raises in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley were selling for about the same price they had a few years earlier, while costs for essentials like fuel and fertilizer kept going up. But Houser found another use for his 500 acres.
Inside the Global Race to Turn Water Into Fuel
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Hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in a high-tech gamble to make hydrogen clean, cheap and widely available. In Australia’s Outback, that starts with 10 million new solar panels.
Bringing community solar to low-income customers is a lot harder than you might think
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An Illinois entrepreneur says building trust is critical in communities where many people are deeply skeptical of outsiders offering to make a deal.
Beaming Clean Energy From Space
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Once considered science fiction, technology capable of collecting solar power in space and beaming it to Earth to provide a global supply of clean and affordable energy is moving closer to reality. Through the Space-based Solar Power Project (SSPP), a team of Caltech researchers is working to deploy a constellation of modular spacecraft that collect sunlight, transform it into electricity, then wirelessly transmit that electricity wherever it is needed—including to places that currently have no access to reliable power.
The UN just handed out an urgent climate to-do list. Here’s what it says.
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Cheap and available technologies can help us meet climate goals this decade: here’s how, according to the new UN climate report.
Renewables Will Overtake Coal by Early 2025, Energy Agency Says
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In a new report, the international group said that solar, wind and other renewable sources will expand much more swiftly than forecast last year.
Korean Solar Company Plans to Build $2.5 Billion Plant in Georgia
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Hanwha Qcells expects to make solar panels and their components in the United States to take advantage of President Biden’s climate policies.
Europe’s Energy Risks Go Beyond Gas
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When Russia cut off a key flow of cheap natural gas this year following its invasion of Ukraine, many European countries were left scrambling for fuel as prices soared, raising serious questions about the continent’s energy future. But gas wasn’t the only fuel to face a major test this year. Nuclear and hydropower faltered amid maintenance delays and extreme weather, while record wind and solar power generation saved Europe from a far worse fate, according to data from Ember, an energy think tank.
2021 Local Solar Developer Survey
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Whether a small business, a community school, or a local household, millions of American electric customers have installed rooftop solar or subscribed to shared solar farms. And it doesn’t just save money for solar customers — widespread adoption of distributed solar benefits all of us by creating jobs and lowering the costs of building a cleaner, more resilient power grid. As the price to install solar continues to fall, the opportunity expands each year to more and more Americans.
Meet the man fueling clean energy opposition in the Midwest
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Kevon Martis and a group of fossil fuel-funded allies have led a decades-long campaign to sow fear and misinformation about renewable energy. It’s working.
Save public lands: Put solar on Walmart!
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Solar Power Europe
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SolarPower Europe is the award-winning link between policymakers and the solar PV value chain with the mission of ensuring solar becomes Europe’s leading energy source by 2030.
Are Solar Panels a Good Investment?
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