Category: Solar
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Colorado helped invent community solar. Here’s how it lost the lead and plans to win it back
(CPR) It was 2006 when Claire Levy, now a Boulder County commissioner, had a conversation that’d lead Colorado to help spark a new way to build renewable energy: community solar gardens. The idea came from a potential voter Levy met in Nederland during her first state house campaign. He owned a few acres of mountain…
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Biden marks Earth Day with new solar energy funds and steps to stand up American Climate Corps
President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by unveiling $7 billion in grant funding for solar power and new action on American Climate Corps.
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After Going Solar, I Felt the Bliss of Sudden Abundance
My rooftop panels showed me that a world powered by renewables would be an overflowing horn of plenty, with fast, sporty cars and comfy homes. I used to worry about using too much electricity. But then, three and a half years ago, something happened that changed my entire psychology around electricity: I installed solar panels on my house.
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What killed a 1980s program to kickstart a green home revolution in Colorado?
John Avenson fell in love with his home more than four decades ago. The year was 1981. That’s when Avenson, a young engineer at the Bell Telephone Company, caught an ad for an event called a Passive Solar Tour of Homes. More than 100,000 people from around Metro Denver ended up joining the tour. What killed…
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Request for Information: The greatest challenges to equitable distribution of solar energy
On January 23, 2024, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) published a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on supporting successful solar plus storage deployment serving low-income and disadvantaged communities.
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Solar Industry excited by conservation efforts, job creation by the BLM
Today the Bureau of Land Management released a revised environmental review of the Western Solar Plan, also known as the Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS). This new document will govern leasing public lands for solar.
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Opinion: Dave Marston: Energy expert says energy gap can be bridged
The experts tell us an energy gap looms. Fossil fuels are phasing out, and solar and wind power can’t produce enough electricity to meet the demand in coming decades. But that’s not the thinking of Amory Lovins, the 76-year-old co-founder of RMI, formerly the Rocky Mountain Institute in western Colorado.
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Attitudes toward alternative energy improve
By Joshua Lindenstein January 3, 2014 BOULDER – After years of declining attitudes toward clean and renewable energy concepts, public attitudes in 2013 improved significantly, according to a new study released this week by Boulder-based Navigant Research. The survey of 1,084 adults in the United States was conducted in the fall, and asked respondents their…
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ALEC aims to block clean energy development
American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) will promote legislation with goals ranging from penalising individual homeowners and weakening state clean energy regulations, to blocking the Environmental Protection Agency, which is Barack Obama’s main channel for climate action. Details of Alec’s strategy to block clean energy development at every stage – from the individual rooftop to the White House…