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Berkshire East Ski Resort Goes 100% Renewable
If there’s one industry that is quaking in its boots over climate change, it’s the ski industry, which is threatened by ever-shorter seasons and lessened snowfalls. That’s why it makes sense that they are increasingly turning to renewable energy instead of fossil-fuel based energy from the electric grid. But Berkshire East, the ski resort and [...]
Staples Global HQ Goes Solar
Staples has quietly been adding solar across it locations without much fanfare. Today, they announced they have impressive 14 megawatts (MW) in total, including the 685 kilowatt (kW) system that just turned on at its global headquarters campus in Framingham, Massachusetts. This is Staples’ 37th solar array, ranking the company #7 among Fortune 500 companies in the US for renewable energy consumption, according to the Environmental Protection [...]
George W. Bush Goes Solar
I always thought George W. Bush got a bum rap by people who said he didn’t care about the environment. Actions speak louder than words and when you take into account the geothermal system he installed on his ranch in Crawford before he became President and the solar energy systems he just installed on his new [...]
Will Area 51 Go Solar?
Next time someone sees something shiny gleaming the desert sunlight near Roswell, N.M., it might not be an alien spaceship or experimental vehicle on Area 51. It’s more likely it will be one of the solar arrays being built in the region by Green States Energy. The company has at least two projects in the [...]
SolarCity Helps Walgreens Go Solar in Colorado
Walgreens and SolarCity will join forces to install solar systems at 22 drugstores across Colorado, the equivalent of planting more than 25,000 trees over the next two decades. Today marked the completion of the first Colorado drugstore: the Aurora Walgreens on E. Smokey Hill Road and Aurora Parkway. The achievement was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting [...]
Indianapolis International Airport Goes Solar
The new 75-acre solar farm at the Indianapolis International Airport that broke ground last week is one among about 30 new solar projects in development in Indianapolis Power and Light’s portfolio. “This has been two years in the making,” said IPL spokeswoman Brandi Davis-Handy. “We’re very excited about it.” She said the airport project, which [...]
U.S Solar Permitting Costs: Bringing Them Down
It used to be — way back in history, like 2008 — that the biggest barrier to growing solar markets was the cost of the modules. Since then, module costs have come down around 80% — to the point that hardware costs are no longer the largest part of the overall cost of a solar [...]
Hollywood: So Ready For Solar
Los Angeles is known for its great year round weather – sunny and 73! Taking advantage of its ideal solar climate, LA will soon be known for being a real leader of the booming solar economy. On Feb. 1, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power – made famous in the movie Chinatown but probably a bit more mundane of [...]
Why You Should Go Solar
The energy from the sun is powerful: Every year the earth receives 15.000 times more energy than the human consumption and many times the energy stored in the earth. Solar energy is environmentally friendly and will play a big part in the production of useful energy in the future. Some appliances we are going to [...]