Solar Evolution, Gore: Solar Is Like Satellite TV… (Clean Electricity Link Drop)
Some hot-fun clean electricity news from around the interwebs is below, as well as some other obscure stuff I had to share. Enjoy this side dish, as well as the main meal.
Renewables (as a whole)
- California’s Power Grid Plan For Integrating 50% Renewables
- BP Dropped Green Energy Projects Worth Billions to Focus on Fossil Fuels
Solar
- Al Gore: Solar Is Like Satellite TV
- Baltimore Residents Form Solar Energy Co-op
- Groups Sue House GOP over Solar Bill Secrecy
- Solar Summit Slide Show: The Evolution of Solar
- Hanergy & AMR To Further Solar Car Development
- Designing Community Solar Programs to Manage Risk
- Solar Industry Questions HECO’s Count of PV Approvals
- Ramakrishna Mission in India Gains Energy Independence
- California Turning to Solar Amid Decade-Low Hydropower
- Utilities, Solar Advocates at Odds over Missouri Net Metering Bill
- Design and Permitting Company GreenLancer Raises $5 Million Capital
- TASC: Governor Martinez Vetoes Bipartisan Solar Job Creation Bill in New Mexico
- Enphase Energy Named One of the 2015 Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area
Storage
- Where The Energy Storage Expansion Will Happen First And Why
- Con Edison Development Enters into Agreement to Procure GE Energy Storage System
- Ecotricity ‘Black Box’ Aims to Bring Green Energy Storage to the Home
Wind
Other
- What German Power Bills Would Look Like If Germany Were In The US
- Mushroom Based Building Materials Are Here (With Video)
- DIY Luggage Tags Made from Old Hotel Room Keys
- How To Upcycle A Tin Can (Or Two): 9 Projects
- Used CDs: A Weapon Against Climate Change?
- Carbon Capture SCAM
- American Companies Are Shipping Millions Of Trees To Europe, And It’s A Renewable Energy Nightmare
- NRDC Action Fund Launches Ad Marking Mitch McConnell’s First 100 Days, Unveils Website Showing Congressional Villains and Heroes on Climate & Clean Air
- Congress Has Made Undermining Energy And Environmental Laws The Focus Of Its First 100 Days
- This Was The Hottest 3-Month Start Of Any Year On Record
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The BP story is a real head-scratcher.
Nothing surprising about it at all. Oil can be a very profitable business. They are literally in the business of looking for buried treasure and when they find it, it can pay HUGE. Everything else is just a distraction to them. Often including refineries and gas stations.
US readers should check out NRDC’s heros and villians on climate change related votes in congress. It’s link number 8 under “other” above.
http://www.whovotesdirty.com/
Here’s my reps (near Chicago)
1) Dick Durbin (D-senate): hero
2) Mark Kirk (R-senate): sort of a villain
3) Danny Davis (D-house): hero
Totally agree with the story that big storage break out will be C&I.
Al Gore….. The man would have been President if Ralph Nader had not been on the ballot in Florida. Thanks Ralph.