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California is the first state to require solar panels on new homes. Here's why Big Brother is on to something
When a state regulatory body decrees that all new homes must have rooftop solar starting in 2020, my temperature rises. Big Brother is intruding too deeply into my personal life, I'm thinking. Shouldn't it be my call alone whether to invest in solar panels, perhaps incentivized by state tax credits or rebates? Should solar buying be simply mandated by a government bureaucracy without even a vote by our elected representatives in the Legislature?
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California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes
California is about to become the only state in the nation mandating that virtually every new home have solar panels by 2020.
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Shift to renewables would save Australians $20bn a year – report
A total shift to renewable energy would pay for itself through cost savings within two decades, and ultimately save Australians $20bn a year in combined fuel and power costs, a new report says. The report, released on Thursday morning, outlines a path to powering homes and businesses from renewable sources by 2030. By 2035, 40% of transport could be emissions free, it says.
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India added more energy capacity from renewables than coal last year
For the first time ever, India has added more production capacity from renewable energy in a year than from conventional sources like coal. Between April 2017 and March 2018, the country added around 11,788 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy capacity. That’s more than double of the 5,400 MW of capacity addition in the thermal and hydro power sectors during the same period. The numbers are in sync with the Narendra Modi government’s plan to promote renewable power, targeting capacity additions of 175,000 MW from renewable sources by 2022.
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Dubai Adds 200 Megawatts of Solar Power in Renewables Push
Dubai took another step toward completing what it says will be the largest solar park of its kind, inaugurating a 200-megawatt facility with partners Electricite de France SA and Abu Dhabi-based renewables company Masdar. The third and latest phase of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park will help Dubai toward its goal of generating about 10 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2020. The Gulf Arab city-state is already operating the first two phases of the project in the emirate’s desert and has broken ground on a fourth section.
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Solar power tax incentives fall almost 50% as installations increase 300%
An analysis by the Department of Energy shows electricity generation from solar growing 32% annually since 2000. Meanwhile, the tax benefits claimed for solar fell from just over $2 billion in 2013 to just over $1 billion in 2016. According to a new report by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) The cost to incentivize the massive volumes of solar power being installed in the United States is falling aggressively. In the years for this report, specifically 2013 versus 2016, we saw solar power almost triple in volume deployed, while the cost in tax incentives for those projects fell by almost 50%.
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Jeff Bezos explains how his space company will save civilization
It's either space or blanketing the entire surface of the earth with solar panels.
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As Hawaii Aims for 100% Renewable Energy, Other States Watching Closely
How to incorporate solar and wind while keeping the electricity grid stable is a key question
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China almost adds more solar power in three months than the US did all of last year
As US President Donald Trump pushes for “beautiful, clean coal,” China is speeding ahead in boosting renewable energy. China’s National Energy Administration said on Tuesday that in the first quarter of 2018, the country had increased its renewable energy capacity, mostly solar, by 15 gigawatts. That’s the equivalent of building five of America's largest nuclear power plant, the Palo Verde Generating Station, in just three months.
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Sea of solar panels turns Mexican desert green
From a distance, it looks like a deep-blue sea has formed in the middle of the Mexican desert. But this is no mirage. It's the largest solar park in Latin America. With 2.3 million solar panels covering the equivalent of 2,200 football fields in the arid northern state of Coahuila, the Villanueva power plant is part of Mexico's push to generate 43 per cent of its electricity from clean sources by 2024.
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Research gives new ray of hope for solar fuel
A team of Renewable Energy experts from the University of Exeter has pioneered a new technique to produce hydrogen from sunlight to create a clean, cheap and widely-available fuel.
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Egypt will build the World's largest Solar Park
The eastern area of the Sahara Desert has some of the greatest solar power resources – sunlight – on the earth. It’s the second best spot in the world after the Chilean desert highlands. Benban Solar Park targets to reach somewhere between 1.6-2.0GW of solar power by the mid of 2019. Benban Solar Park’s land was originally placed out with 41 unique plots extending from 0.12mi2 to 0.39mi2. The total plot area of the park is roughly 14.4mi2.
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Wind and solar make more electricity than nuclear for first time in UK
Windfarms and solar panels produced more electricity than the UK’s eight nuclear power stations for the first time at the end of last year, official figures show. Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions also continued to fall, dropping 3% in 2017, as coal use fell and the use of renewables climbed. Energy experienced the biggest drop in emissions of any UK sector, of 8%, while pollution from transport and businesses stayed flat.
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Study: wind and solar can power most of the United States | John Abraham
In order to combat climate change, we need to rapidly move from fossil fuel energy to clean, renewable energy. The two energy sources I am most interested in are wind and solar power; however, there are other sources that have great potential
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No longer 'alternative', mainstream renewables are pushing prices down
On the first day of autumn tens of thousands of Victorians received a welcome surprise from their power company — their electricity bills were going down. Prices were cut 5% because the retailer increased their investment in renewable energy. This will likely come as a surprise to many. Since the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and the energy minister, Josh Frydenberg, decided that bashing renewables would play well for them — perhaps more so in the party room than in the electorate — hardly a day goes by without claims that renewables have made our grid unreliable and have pushed prices sky high.
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California is taking a cooling off period after generating too much energy from the sun
California’s solar sector has been on fire. But after a building sprint that saw its share of solar rise from 0.5% of generation in 2010 to 10% last year, the state may be taking a break following two new production records this month. Solar served up an unprecedented 50% of the state’s demand on a sunny day around 1pm PT on March 5. The next day, utility operators reported a second record for total generation from solar which produced 10,411 megawatts, beating out last year’s record by 5%.
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California sets wind+solar record, 38% of US electricity from rooftops, polysilicon efficiency up, more
Estimating rooftop solar technical potential across the US using a combination of GIS-based methods, lidar data, and statistical modeling – 38% of US electricity could come from rooftops and solar power only. There is no longer a sound argument that intermittent energy sources – wind+solar – can’t power the country. An aside, as a commercial sales guy, I’d love to get a hold of these databases of nationwide rooftop viability scans and turn them into a lead database. Gold mine.
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Egypt Constructs World’s Largest Solar Park
Egypt currently constructs what is set to be the world’s largest solar park, Benban Solar Park, near the southern city of Aswan that aims to reach between 1.6-2.0 GW by the middle of 2019, according to Electrek.
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Denton aims to become second 'all renewable' city in Texas by 2020
Denton is set to become the second city in Texas to use 100 percent renewable energy. Denton’s City Council voted 6-1 on Feb. 6 to approve an amendment to the Renewable Denton Plan which institutes the new goal with a target year of 2020. The plan’s original goal was to use 70 percent renewable energy by then. The city’s utility company, Denton Municipal Electric, has determined that solar power is the city's best option for renewable energy, followed by coastal wind and then other wind energy. The city currently purchases 44 percent renewable energy.
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IKEA flags selling solar panels “at cost” in Australia, industry reacts
News that Swedish furniture giant IKEA is planning to sell solar panels “at cost” in its Australian stores has been met with mixed responses from the local solar industry, with many expressing fears that it will further destabilise – and perhaps undermine – an already over-crowded solar retail and installation market.
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