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Solar Goes Big: Launching the California Valley Solar Ranch
Today marks a major solar milestone for sunny San Luis Obispo County, California, with the start of commercial operation for California Valley Solar Ranch. This facility is one of the world’s largest solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants with the ability…
99-MW Oliver Wind III Project in North Dakota Due for Operation in December
Oliver Wind III LLC, in a Nov. 4 filing of its decommissioning plan for the 99.3-MW Oliver Wind III Wind Energy Center in Morton and Oliver counties, North Dakota, told the North Dakota Public Service Commission that the project is…
UK’s Largest Community-Owned Rooftop Solar Array Installed at Oxfordshire Aerospace Factory
Installation of the UK’s largest community-owned rooftop solar array has been completed at UTC Aerospace Systems CTG’s manufacturing site in Banbury, Oxfordshire. The 2,590 panel project installed at the facility generates 593,304 kWh of clean electricity a year, avoiding 5,800…
Renewable Energy to Crown Buckingham Palace’s £369m Makeover
Solar panels could be fitted onto the roof of Buckingham Palace as part of a £369m renovation of the iconic building, according to a programme report for the proposed refit published last week by the Royal Trustees. According to the…
Advanced Coal Technologies Could Provide Carbon Relief
Coal is not clean. But that does not mean that it could not be made cleaner. And that’s relevant because much of the developing world will remain dependent on coal, as will most developed nations to a lesser degree. At…
Tesla, SolarCity Power Entire Island With Solar + Batteries
Ta’u, an island in American Samoa, has turned its nose at fossil fuels and is now almost 100 percent powered with solar panels and batteries thanks to technology from the newly combined Tesla and SolarCity. The microgrid is operated by…
China is Building a Giant Solar Plant at Chernobyl
A new solar summer rises from the ashes of nuclear winter. Two Chinese energy firms will be constructing a new solar power plant in the exclusion zone near the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, which suffered a powerful explosion in 1986 that…