Rural Solar Opponents About To Face Tsunami Of PV
Rural solar advocates are punching back against the opposition with a new alliance between conservation, agriculture, and environmental organizations.
Rural solar advocates are punching back against the opposition with a new alliance between conservation, agriculture, and environmental organizations.
Jeff Bezos’ $10 billion Earth Fund has announced its first allocation of funds to well known and lesser known climate advocacy groups.
Many presidents have their legacies. Abraham Lincoln’s presidency saw us through the Civil War and he signed the Emancipation Proclamation that declared by law that the United States had to free all the slaves. We have Jimmy Carter, who focused on expanding human rights. What is Trump’s legacy?
Bill Gates is promoting macro grids. The state of California is promoting microgrids. Can they both be right?
This sunshine week I would like to express my appreciation for all of the work that Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) officers at federal agencies have done and continue to do to ensure public access to government communications, records, and documents.
As the fight to save the Earth heats up, it is important not to let ourselves feel responsible for what has been done to us by oil companies and governments. Put the blame where it belongs, on those who knew about the impending disaster and did nothing to avoid it.
Governments in Europe and China are trying to speed up the adoption of electric vehicles by offering subsidies and incentives, and it’s working. In Norway, EVs are exempt from taxes, and drivers receive perks such as free parking and reduced tolls. Almost 60 percent of new cars sold in the country in March were fully electric. China’s combination of incentives and mandates is acting as a magnetic force, sucking the global EV industry out of America and Europe and into China, where over a million electric cars were sold in 2018.
A green rain of financial support will fall on climate change delegates in Paris next week at the opening of the Green Bank Design Summit on Monday, March 18. At least 24 developing countries representing 27% of global GDP and 44% of global carbon emissions are coming together to craft a new model for advancing clean energy investment, say organizers.
Studies show that EVs provide benefits to utility customers even if they don’t drive an electric car. The more EVs on the road, the greater the benefits for everyone.
In his annual State of the State address, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday plans to significantly upgrade the state’s renewable energy targets, including quadrupling its offshore wind target to 9 GW by 2035 and doubling distributed solar to 6 GW by 2025.