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Those organizations sometimes prohibit residents from making home improvements that increase energy efficiency or reduce environmental impacts, such as solar panels, reflective roofing, rain barrels and electric vehicle charging stations.  If Whitmer signs the bill, that would become illegal.  Related: The legislation’s chief sponsor, state Rep. Ranjeev Puri, D-Canton Township, said residents in his district contacted him after their HOA stopped them from making energy-efficient changes to their homes. “It was strange, because the local township ordinances are okay with that, but it was these small HOAs prohibiting them,” Puri…

Those organizations sometimes prohibit residents from making home improvements that increase energy efficiency or reduce environmental impacts, such as solar panels, reflective roofing, rain barrels and electric vehicle charging stations.  If Whitmer signs the bill, that would become illegal.  Related: The legislation’s chief sponsor, state Rep. Ranjeev Puri, D-Canton Township, said residents in his district contacted him after their HOA stopped them from making energy-efficient changes to their homes. “It was strange, because the local township ordinances are okay with that, but it was these small HOAs prohibiting them,” Puri…

Detroit’s solar plan not welcomed by everyone “We have had several public comments, individuals come down – expressing their support and/or not support for the projects,” said Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield. “So we wanted to get an overview on where things were.” DETROIT (FOX 2) – The Detroit city council postponed a vote on part of the mayor’s plan to install large solar farms in some neighborhoods after concerns from the public were voiced during Tuesday’s meeting. Representatives on the council opted to delay a vote on creating…

A rendering of the solar panel canopy planned for the parking lot of the Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna (courtesy Govan Builders) A Vienna church hopes to soon draw energy from both the sun and God as it embarks on what appears to be the biggest solar panel project in the town so far. With permitting almost complete, workers are slated to break ground on a solar photovoltaic canopy in the Church of the Holy Comforter’s parking lot at 543 Beulah Road NE in mid to late July,…

Liny Lamberink | CBC News | Posted: July 2, 2024 6:55 PM | Last Updated: Just now Solar panels expected to provide a quarter of the electricity needed for the mine’s closure Image | Diavik solar installation Caption: A worker hauls solar panels at the Diavik diamond mine in the N.W.T. (Submitted by Rio Tinto) Load Image Rio Tinto says its 3.5-megawatt solar plant, which it calls the North’s biggest off-grid solar operation, is up and running at Diavik Diamond Mine in the N.W.T. The 6,620 solar panels are expected…

Rio Tinto says construction of a solar plant, which it calls the North’s biggest, is now complete at Diavik Diamond Mine in the N.W.T.  The 6,620 solar panels are expected to generate 4.2 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, according to a press release from the company — amounting to 25 per cent of the electricity needed when Diavik enters closure work in 2026.  The panels are said to be bi-facial, meaning they’ll generate energy directly from the sun but also from the light reflected off the snow during the…

Rio Tinto says construction of a solar plant, which it calls the North’s biggest, is now complete at Diavik Diamond Mine in the N.W.T.  The 6,620 solar panels are expected to generate 4.2 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, according to a press release from the company — amounting to 25 per cent of the electricity needed when Diavik enters closure work in 2026.  The panels are said to be bi-facial, meaning they’ll generate energy directly from the sun but also from the light reflected off the snow during the…

The bankruptcy of a solar-power company in South Florida is creating an array of problems on the South Coast. The business — Electriq Power Inc. — was putting solar panels and batteries on Santa Barbara rooftops at no expense to homeowners and with the blessings of the cities of Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria. But then Electriq filed Chapter 7 on May 3, freezing all its operations. This prompted one of its subcontractors, Axiom 360 of Grover Beach, to place mechanics liens on homes for which it had yet to…

Energy & Environmental Science (2024). DOI: 10.1039/D4EE01071J”> Schematic diagram of closed-loop recycling of perovskite solar devices. Credit: Energy & Environmental Science (2024). DOI: 10.1039/D4EE01071J A recent study by the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nuremberg, which is based at Forschungszentrum Jülich, has developed an efficient and environmentally friendly process for recycling perovskite solar cells. The paper, published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, presents a method with which up to 99.97% of the materials used in a solar cell can be recovered and reused—with comparable efficiency, less waste and lower costs. This…