Category: Solar Sales and Services

It’s hard to know where to start unpacking John Schaefer’s snide and misleading June 30 editorial in the Times-Standard, in which he charges so-called “eco-NIMBY friends” with sacking viable plans for wind energy, particularly Terra-Gen’s demonstrably destructive proposal for a wind farm on Monument and Bear River Ridge. Our organization, Siskiyou Land Conservancy, opposed the Terra-Gen project for excellent reasons. The proposed wind farm was anything but “clean.” To start, one reason taxpayers shelled out $480 million for Headwaters Forest was to protect essential habitat for the endangered marbled murrelet.…

It’s no secret that the Bluegrass region is home to world-renowned farmland: crops, horse farms, bourbon production, and rolling hills that attract millions of tourists every year. None of this is possible without our prime soils, the backbone of our productive rural area. Communities around the country with prime soils — or land designated by the USDA as best suited for producing food — are proactively ensuring their local planning and zoning policies regulate solar projects to protect farmland land from industrial-scale solar development. They are, instead, prioritizing solar in…

(Willmar MN-) The Willmar School District is preparing to apply for a grant to put solar panels on the roofs of 5 school district buildings. Superintendent Dr. Bill Adams says the panels would generate electricity and save on the district’s energy bill… Your browser does not support the audio element. …The panels would be paid for by the grant and by the money the district would save on their electricity bill. Adams says they discovered the program during this past winter’s Minnesota School Board Association conference, and brought the proposal…

Solar PV generated 32.4TWh over the period, a 15% increase from the same period in 2023. Wind generation led the pack “by far” with 73.4TWh, Fraunhofer said, constituting 34.1% of the total net public electricity generation. In total – including hydropower and biomass as well as solar and wind – renewable sources generated 140TWh of power, a “new record”. Wind generation led the tables over solar PV in the first half of the year, but this contrasts sharply with the expansion of capacity for the two technologies. Fraunhofer said that…

The sun is — and can be — an even greater source of energy and light for us all. The amount of solar energy that hits the Earth in just one hour is enough to power the world for an entire year. Learn more about the advantages and opportunities solar energy represents for our community at the GoSolar815 Conference and Expo July 18, sponsored by Sustain Rockford. Burning things — principally coal, oil, and biomass — has provided the foundation for a prosperous world. But continuing this reliance is undoing…

A California solar energy company is going through a Meta metamorphosis of sorts that will help energize our power- and data-hungry world.  When Meta, the parent company of Facebook, inked a deal with Adapture Renewables to buy 330 megawatts of solar power from three utility-scale solar farms last year — two in Illinois and one in Arkansas — it jump-started a pivot for the company, founded in 2011. “These projects for Meta put us on the map from a large utility perspective,” Adapture Renewables senior development director Gabe Klooster said…