Originally published on ilsr.org. Below is part three of our City Power Play report, a report released in October 2013 (and still relevant today) about the types of policy solutions cities can enact to increase their ownership of renewable energy. Read part 1 and part 2, published last week. Permitting One authority … [continued]
California’s successful efforts to cut emissions and increase renewable energy show a path forward on international decarbonization efforts.
The sun shone bright on a major US military installation in Utah Friday morning as President Barack Obama announced that Hill Air Force Base, which hosts Material Command’s 75th Air Base Wing, would take part in a new “Solar Ready Vets” program. At ten bases, a joint program from the Departments … [continued]
California is swiftly advancing, with one EV-charging-friendly bill after another. The latest is via the California Building Code (CBC2016), which looks set to require that all recently constructed parking lots or housing must be ready for electric charging infrastructure. The information is from draft building code documents and written in legal terms. “The new … [continued]
New analysis finds the Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency bill could create hundreds of thousands of green jobs while dramatically cutting US energy use and emissions by 2030.
In his final State of the City address, Mayor Michael Bloomberg outlined plans to establish 10,000 public charging stations by 2020 in his push to make New York City America’s national leader in EV technology…
A serialized version of ILSR‘s new report, Democratizing the Electricity System, Part 4 of 5. Click for Part 1 or Part 2 or Part 3 or Part 4.
The House version of the climate bill, Waxman-Markey’s ACES included a national building code (Section 201, page 214) which would have led to a 75% reduction in national energy use from buildings. Yet it is not in the Senate’s climate and clean energy bill, the recently unveiled American Power Act. … [continued]
[social_buttons] Environment America (EA) released a report titled “Building a Solar Future” this week stating that the US should aim to obtain 10% or more of its total energy consumption from the sun by 2030. Environment America found that “a comprehensive suite of public policy strategies can remove many of … [continued]
People typically don’t think of installing solar thermal when they build or retrofit their homes. Most people just don’t follow renewable energy news and have just have never thought of it. Just like most people wouldn’t know to build their homes to be earthquake-proof either if it wasn’t in our building code.
