Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort, the largest ski resort in southern New England, will soon be home to the largest community solar project in the northeastern United States, thanks to the construction by Nexamp of a 2.3 MW solar installation on 12 acres of the facility’s property. This project, along with … [continued]
Here’s some more solar energy, wind energy, energy efficiency, and general clean energy and green news & views from around the interwebs. Enjoy! Solar Energy The Oil Industry is Going Solar Kyocera Backing Floating Solar In Japan Hanwha Q CELLS Enters Indian Solar Market New Solar Panel Technologies Drive Down Costs Bold & Beautiful Solar … [continued]
Originally published on Green Building Elements Cornell Tech is building an applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City. It will feature environmentally friendly classrooms and lots of green space, but its most noteworthy feature will be a 250 foot tall residential high rise dormitory building so energy efficient … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Laurie Guevara-Stone Personal fitness tracking has taken hold of people in a big way. Wearable tracking devices such as FitBit, Jawbone, FuelBand, and others, allow consumers to track their physical activity, heart rate, calories burned, and more. Demand for these devices has grown incredibly … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy South Australia is rapidly emerging as the leading state in battery storage, with the Labor government announcing a $1.1 million tender to install battery storage in several key government buildings, including parliament house and its flagship arts buildings in the North Terrace precinct. In what is … [continued]
As I just wrote, a one-week cleantech tour (and semi-vacation) in the Netherlands put my “link drop” articles on hold for a bit, but I was saving stories along the way. After a couple of weeks, below is a massive list of non-CleanTechnica renewable energy, energy storage, climate, and other green stories … [continued]
Trina Solar, the world’s largest solar panel manufacturer, has announced collaboration with India’s Welspun Energy to build a 2 GW solar manufacturing facility in India. The 1 GW PV cell manufacturing facility and a 1GW module manufacturing plant will cost about $500 million, with construction planned in two phases over a period of … [continued]
Originally posted at ilsr.org The city of Beaverton, OR, is getting a new solar array that will offset energy use at an underground reservoir, saving taxpayers $95,000 per year, with no upfront cost. Ventura County, CA, has a 1-megawatt solar array on its jail facility that’s cash-flow positive. Denver, CO, … [continued]
Originally published on The Climate Reality Project. Here’s what’s really happening with Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions commitment and why it’s way too weak for any developed nation to put forward with a straight face. For many of us living in the US, there’s a whole lot to admire about Canada, … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Laurie Guevara-Stone Talk of building energy-efficiency retrofits usually focuses on commercial offices. But there’s another type of building—prisons—where the non-energy benefits of those retrofits really stand out in stark relief. True to their name, deep energy retrofits generate a suite of deep retrofit values … [continued]
