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Go Green! Sports Stadiums Save Energy
April 22 -- You could view a National Football League stadium as a hulk of concrete and steel, where video boards and bright lights eat up electricity, refrigeration is needed to keep the beer cold, halftimes are flush-fests and cars idle before and after games. >>View Article
119,000 Reasons Why Solar is a United States' Success Story
April 19 --Every state in the union has benefitted from solar power’s remarkable growth over the last few years. In an actual headcount of employees, DC-based The Solar Foundation has found 119,000 employees in solar companies across the country. You can dive in and learn more about them here at the State Solar Jobs Map. >>View Article
Report Says Major Boost In Renewables Would Not Hurt U.S. Grid Reliability
April 19 --If the U.S. ceases to burn coal, shuts down a quarter of existing nuclear reactors and trims its use of natural gas by 2050, the resulting increased reliance on wind, solar and other renewables will not result in a less reliable electricity grid, according to a new report prepared by Synapse Energy Economics Inc. for the nonprofit Civil Society Institute. >>View Article
The US Solar Industry Puts People To Work In All 50 States
April 18 -- According to The Solar Foundation's (TSF) recently released interactive map, California has more solar workers than actors; more Texans work in solar than ranching; and the U.S. solar industry has more workers than the coal mining industry. Those findings and many more were discovered by The Solar Foundation team, led by Andrea Luecke, as they put together comprehensive solar job data about all fifty U.S. states and the District of Columbia. >>View Article
Government Policy Can Help Innovate The Path To A Clean Energy Future
April 18 -- The key to broader penetration of solar energy depends on access to capital markets and innovative financial structures that can reduce the cost of capital for project finance as well as increase the investor base beyond the traditional tax-equity driven investors. There is a strong case for the DOE to establish the Advancd Research Project Agency-Capital (ARPA-C) that will function to support the broader adoption and commercialization of renewable energy through mechanisms, including credit enhancment and direct equity investments for capital market project aggregation warehouse facilities and securitization transactions. >>View Article
US Electrical Grid More Reliable With Renewables
April 18 -- If the U.S. ceases to burn coal, shuts down a quarter of existing nuclear reactors, and trims its use of natural gas by 2050, the resulting increased reliance on wind, solar and other renewables will not result in a less reliable electricity grid, according to a major new report prepared by Synapse Energy Economics, Inc., for the nonprofit Civil Society Institute (CSI). >>View Article
Tesla Outsells Mercedes, Audi, BMW And Lexus (with one caveat)
April 18 -- Electric vehicle opponents like Sarah Palin might not want to admit it, but Tesla has one distinction over failed competitor Fisker — its cars sell. According to Green Car Reports, the Tesla Model S is now the second best selling sedan in the U.S. "Large Luxury" market segment. >>View Article
Toyota Predicts A Hybrid Majority
April 18 -- The man behind Toyota Motor Corp. first generation of hybrids — or vehicles that blend a gasoline-based engine and an electric motor — wasn’t always so confident that the cars would be a hit. “When the question of the future of hybrids first came up…I’d felt quite bold in saying that Toyota cars will be 30% hybrid by 2020,” former chief engineer and current vice chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada told reporters at a briefing in Tokyo on Wednesday. >>View Article
Wind Energy Production Levels Hit All-Time High In California
April 17 -- California’s wind energy production levels recently reached a new all-time high of 4,196 megawatts (MW). >>View Article
Ikea Turns On Maryland's Largest Rooftop Solar Power System
April 17 -- Home furniture retailer Ikea has activated what it says is the largest rooftop solar array in Maryland at its distribution center in Perryville. >>View Article
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