2025 Community Solar Target to Power 5 Million Homes in USA
2025 Milestone Will Play a Key Role in Achieving Justice40 Goals and Create $1 Billion in Energy Savings
Community Solar
New Analysis Shows How Communities Can Locally Produce 100% Clean Energy
What Does It Mean to Let Communities Choose? A New Report from UCS and Soulardarity
Experience Solar in Your Community & Across the USA Today!
ASES National Solar Tour this Weekend (October 2-3, 2021). Attend Virtually and/or In-Person at Nationalsolartour.org
Footprint Project CEO On Helping Ida Victims With Solar & Battery Storage — CleanTechnica Interview
The Footprint Project is here in Louisiana deploying solar and battery storage for some of the hardest-hit areas impacted by Hurricane Ida. I spoke with Will Heegaard, Founder, Operations Director, and CEO of Footprint Project on the phone this weekend. This interview is a followup to an article I wrote … [continued]
Footprint Project & Rent.Solar Brought Portable Solar Charging Stations To Help Ida Hurricane Victims
Footprint Project, a nonprofit organization based in Minneapolis whose mission is to provide cleaner energy for communities in crisis, recently joined Rent.Solar on a trip to Louisiana to help those hit hardest by Hurricane Ida. The two brought 4 solar trailers and 60 portable charging stations. The mobile solar unit … [continued]
The Future of Agriculture Combined With Renewable Energy Finds Success at Jack’s Solar Garden
A 24-acre family farm purchased by Jack Stingerie in 1972 that grew hay, wheat, and hosted cattle over time has now evolved into a model for how to produce energy and food in tandem. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) InSPIRE project partnered with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), … [continued]
Opt-Out Community Choice Solar For Upstate New York
Several communities in upstate New York are now part of an opt-out community choice program that will allow their residents to enjoy clean, emissions-free energy and lower utility bills. What does opt-out mean? It means everyone who lives in those communities is automatically enrolled but those who do not wish … [continued]
Voices Of 100%: A Renewable City Coalition Grows in Western Montana
Originally published at ILSR.org For this episode of our Voices of 100% series of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell talks with Helena Sustainability Coordinator Patrick Judge and Citizens Conservation Commission Member Mark Juedeman. Judge and Juedeman supported Helena as the city committed to 100% renewable energy. In making its commitment, … [continued]
Getting To 40% Solar Energy In The US By 2035 Is A Piece Of Cake,…
The US Department of Energy to US legislators: Damn the potholes, full speed ahead to 40% solar energy by 2035.
New Mexico’s Community Solar Program
Originally published on ILSR.org. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Energy Transition Act (SB 489) in 2019, which introduced the idea of a community solar program, and also mandated that New Mexico move to 50% renewable energy by 2030. However, New Mexico’s community solar program was truly born in 2021, … [continued]
