Charly Fasano is a writer, artist and poet who has published numerous books over more than a decade. Growing up in the foothills of Colorado he passed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and is now exploring the industries it supports. He is an avid supporter of independent artists and writers and has published, edited and written volumes of poetry and fiction through his independent Fast Geek Press.
Electricity in the modern world is only a necessity, but a human right. Now the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan has access to electricity thanks to a 2 megawatt solar farm funded through a partnership between the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Ikea Foundation. It’s a first for a refugee setting and is generating free electricity for 20,000 refugees living in 5,000 temporary shelters.
Read More →DTE Energy of Michigan will cut its carbon emissions more than 80 percent by 2050 as it moves to cleaner energy sources and away from coal-fired power plants, which it will continue to decommission. It aims to source 75 percent of its power from renewable energy and natural gas power plants, including 6 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity and investing $5 billion into grid modernization.
Read More →President Donald Trump (R) has threatened to pull out of the Paris Agreement, but now emissions reductions in China and India are planning to make could almost make up for the amount the US committed to reduce its emissions by. Renewable energy development and the reduction of coal generated power in China and India alone are expected to offset global greenhouse emissions by up to 3 metric tons by 2030, even if the US rolls back its commitment.
Read More →No one can benefit more from solar than low-income households. Giving low-income people access to solar can reduce their electric bills. The Clean Energy States Alliance’s (CESA’s) new guide, Bringing the Benefits of Solar Energy to Low-Income Consumers, shows how policymakers can implement solar programs for low-income people.
Read More →Varta Storage has revamped its line of home energy storage systems and introduced the new compact plug-and-play Varta pulse battery systems to the European market. The new, 3.3 kilowatt-hour Varta pulse 3 and the 6.5 kilowatt-hour Varta pulse 6 storage system are retrofit kits designed to install in 30 minutes and are module expandable. The company also introduced its 13 kilowatt-hour Varta element 12, which is fully integrated with a power inverter.
Read More →Vivint Solar is going beyond its door-to-door sales model by introducing kiosks at retail locations in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California and Utah by the end of June. It plans to expand its retail operations to more states by the end of the year.
Read More →Boston scored 84.5 out of a possible 100 points in the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE’s) latest City Energy Efficiency Scorecard. On the other end of the spectrum, Birmingham, AL, accumulated only 7 out of 100 points, showing the most need for improvement in energy efficiency. Most encouraging, 32 of the ranked cities showed marked improvement for overall energy efficiency between 2015 and 2017.
Read More →NextEra Energy and Entergy Arkansas broke ground on an 81-megawatt solar project farm near Stuttgart, AR, that will alone be nearly four times larger than the state’s existing 21 megawatts of installed solar. The Stuttgart Solar Energy Center is the largest solar project in the state’s history and expected to provide Arkansas County with $8 million in additional revenue during its operational lifetime, much of which will go to fund the Arkansas County Public School District.
Read More →Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed controversial State Bill 309 into law, which will end new net-metering for solar powered homes and businesses after 2022. The move was criticized by solar industry advocates, environmentalists and community leaders, who contended that the public did not want the law and warned that it will hamper jobs growth in Indiana as well as out-of-state investment—particularly in the clean energy industry while it reduces choices for Indiana residents.
Read More →The Solar Ready Vets program has already helped place over 17,000 veterans in solar industry jobs and hopes to add a total of 50,000 to the solar workforce by 2020. Solar installers like EcoMark are looking to hire experienced, dedicated employees and have found that veterans can make ideal employees. Now EcoMark has registered with the Solar Ready Vets training program to recruit and hire Army veterans from Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, CO.
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