Agrivoltaics Goes Nuclear On California Prairie
A decommissioned nuclear power plant from the 1980s is repurposed for agrivoltaics and prairie restoration.
A decommissioned nuclear power plant from the 1980s is repurposed for agrivoltaics and prairie restoration.
When we think about solar car races, it’s usually multi-million dollar cars being raced by college teams across vast areas. With their only power coming from the sun, it’s a big challenge that often results in average speeds of around 15 MPH, and takes a grueling amount of time to … [continued]
In Sacramento — as part of a deal with the local utility, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) — Electrify America is putting $1.3 million into SMUD’s Energy StorageShares program.
Originally published on ilsr.org. The publicly-owned Sacramento Municipal Utility District, or SMUD, had already installed the first utility-scale PV array in the nation back in 1984. By the early 1990s, the utility saw a potential for rooftop solar and launched its PV Pioneer program, placing dozens of solar arrays on their … [continued]
Capital buildings in the state (or is it a country now?) of California (in Sacramento) will soon be powered 100% by renewable energy, according to recent reports. Plans are also now in the works for all government buildings in the state to make the transition to 100% renewables in the … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Allowing customers to learn about and explore solar power options at their convenience, a new online application helps utility customers learn the answer to many solar power-related questions, including, “Is solar power right for me?” Newly launched by Clean Power Research, the new “WattPlan” online … [continued]
Google has been a clean energy leader for a long time (see my post on 7 of Google’s top clean energy investments from earlier this year for more on that). While it dropped a major solar R&D initiative recently, it seemed it did so in order to put more … [continued]
NSW electricity costs 19 cents, and they will pay 60 cents: three to one. That is why this is poised for the same kind of rocketing success that Germany saw, and perhaps even more, as Australia is blessed with great insolation.
[social_buttons] SMUD has introduced a Feed-in Tariff to pay producers for renewable energy beginning in 2010. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District is the nation’s sixth largest publicly owned utility, with 1.4 million customers in Northern California. California already does offer a little known Feed-in Tariff or FIT, but the rates … [continued]