Category: Solar Sales and Services

DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) – About 100 sheep visited Duluth as a new approach to maintaining the grass at a solar garden. Minnesota Native Landscapes (MNL) is partnering with Minnesota Power to help clean up the vegetation and grass in the Jean Duluth Solar Field. On Monday, MNL brought the sheep to the solar field where they will graze around the panels for the next three weeks. 101 sheep will be living and grazing between the solar panels in hopes of reducing fossil fuels and cutting down the grass…

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Harnessing power from the Mojave Desert sun has long been touted as a feasible part of the clean energy transition. But up-front costs to install solar panels can be exorbitant for low-income homeowners like Bonnie Radden, a Las Vegas resident and a bishop with Refiner’s Fire Fellowship’s United Church of Christ. Radden, who said she moved to Nevada following the 2017 mass shooting as a state contractor working on mental health resources, soon found herself out of a job and battling a new monster: a cancer diagnosis. “A lower utility…

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Under new Labour leadership, the UK is focusing on renewable energy advancement with the approval of solar farm projects and new rules for solar panels. The UK’s Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband has recently approved three major solar farm projects that had been previously denied by officials in the conservative Tory party, The Guardian reported. The newly approved projects include the Gate Burton project, which will have 530 megawatts of solar capacity plus battery storage. As the BBC reported, this solar farm alone could…

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The Dokio 110W 18V Portable Kit is the most affordable solar panel for camping we’ve used that still works pretty well as a solar panel. This model repeatedly surprised us with its solar charging efficiency, and it’s extremely lightweight, portable, and versatile as well. Performance Comparison The Dokio 110W 18V Portable Kit is extremely inexpensive as well as portable and light. Credit: Sam Schild “> The Dokio 110W 18V Portable Kit is extremely inexpensive as well as portable and light. Credit: Sam Schild Direct Solar Charging Speed For most people,…

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The Allpowers is extremely portable. It only weighs 6.1 pounds and folds down six times to a seriously small size for a 100-watt panel. It consists of 15 individual 5 x 10.5-inch solar panels sewn into a canvas rectangle. The result is something akin to a quilt where each square generates energy from sunlight when you lay it on the ground or hang it from a tree. Performance Comparison Testing Allpowers SPo12 100W Panel in sunny Colorado at 8,000 feet. Credit: Sam Schild “> Testing Allpowers SPo12 100W Panel in…

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Key Takeaways Stocks fell broadly across the solar-energy sector Monday, weighed down by a warning from SolarEdge. FirstSolar was among the biggest decliners. Its shares had been lifted recently by optimism about the energy-generation needs of artificial intelligence. Investors will get a look at FirstSolar’s next quarterly results on July 30. Downbeat news from SolarEdge (SEDG) weighed on solar-energy shares Monday, with stocks falling across the sector.  FirstSolar (FSLR) stock, which had jumped in May amid enthusiasm for the sector’s prospects to provide the energy needed to power developments in…

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A £2.8m solar farm built to help offset a council’s carbon emissions will be operational later in the year. The 2MW solar farm at Sandscale Park in Barrow is being built by Westmorland and Furness Council. The local authority had previously said the project could provide enough electricity to power its five leisure centres or 730 homes a year. Officials said the panels would be operational from 19 September in a council meeting on Monday. The project, which was approved last September, is being built on a council-owned field which…

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