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The US Residential Solar Market Is Set For Major Change in the 2020s

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Residential solar PV has had a remarkable decade. From 2010-2020, more than 2 million residential solar panels have been installed in the U.S., Unsurprisingly, this also means that to date, most growth in residential solar has been concentrated in a handful of state markets that offered additional incentives.

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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies

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After seven days in its facilities, the grown result is a nontoxic, fully home- and marine-compostable material that protects and insulates a variety of products — everything from candles to industrial servers. . By 2023, it’ll have enough biomass to profitably create local energy with an anaerobic converter. . Producing just 2.69

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Utilities plus telcos: The case for an arranged marriage

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The notion of power utilities and telecommunications companies combining or working together is not new. Both small and large utilities, telcos and cellular companies ("cellcos") have carefully tried partnering in a typically limited fashion. Telco plus utility = Energy savings and modernized infrastructure. Richelle Elberg.

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‘Data Hive’ Opens for Solar, Battery Vendors in Silicon Valley

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Last year, we covered a pilot project from California community energy provider Silicon Valley Clean Energy and startup UtilityAPI, meant to make sharing smart meter data between customers and approved third-party companies as easy as a few clicks of a mouse, instead of the utility paperwork and waiting time-heavy ordeal it is today.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

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Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. and globally by 2040.

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Will the Distributed Energy Revolution Leave Renters Behind?

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The grid outages hitting California this year gave the clean energy industry a chance to prove itself, to show that localized solar power and batteries really can help people ride through grid disruption. All those people cannot access the much vaunted benefits of cleaner, decentralized energy.

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Kansas City pilot project installs streetlight-mounted chargers

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Chargers mounted on streetlight or power poles could be a viable way to provide charging for urban dwellers who lack assigned parking spaces. Many cities have replaced their old-fashioned incandescent streetlights with LED lights, which use far less energy. The program began its design phase in 2018. A startup called char.gy