Solar Energy

Solar Panels Delivered To Camp Where Thousands Fight Dakota Access Pipeline

October 28, 2016 Staff, www.ecowatch Resist! Dakota Access Pipeline, Protests, Solar Energy

By Staff of Eco Watch - Actor Mark Ruffalo and Native Renewables founder Wahleah Johns presented Standing Rock Sioux tribal elders with mobile solar panels on trailers, bringing clean power to the protest encampment where the largest gathering of Native Americans in modern history is taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline. "This pipeline is a black snake that traverses four states and 200 waterways with fracked Bakken oil," said Ruffalo, co-founder of The Solutions Project, which works to accelerate the transition to 100 percent clean and renewable energy.

Utilities Trying To Kill Solar Energy In Florida

October 25, 2016 Fred Grimm, www.miamiherald.com Educate! Florida, Solar Energy, Utilities

By Fred Grimm for Miami Herald - The leaked recording should have been political dynamite. Except it only confirmed what solar energy advocates already knew: Florida’s electric utility monopolies had engineered a ballot initiative composed of mendacious doublespeak. Amendment One, an unseemly misnomer entitled “Rights of Electricity Consumers Regarding Solar Energy Choice,” was no more than “political jiu-jitsu,”...

DIY Solar Desalination Machine Purifies 2.8 Gallons Of Water Each Day

September 30, 2016 Amanda Froelich, www.trueactivist.com Create! Solar Energy, Water

By Amanda Froelich for AJ+ - The Israel-Palestine conflict has resulted in 90% of the water in Gaza being rendered undrinkable. An obvious travesty, one man decided to develop a DIY solar desalination system capable of turning undrinkable water into purified H20 – and succeeded! Fayez al-Hindi’s invention may save lives, considering that Gaza is expected to run out of drinkable water within the next few months.

Jobs, Justice, and the Clean-Energy Future

September 25, 2016 Jeremy Brecher, www.dollarsandsense.org Create! Climate Change, Jobs, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Wind

By Jeremy Brecher for Dollars & Sense. A series of reports by the Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS), and partners provides good news: The U.S. can meet the targets for greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction that climate scientists say are necessary while also creating half-a-million jobs annually and reducing the cost of energy to consumers. The reports, gathered in the LNS Climate, Jobs, and Justice Project, also show that protecting the climate in a way that maximizes the benefit for working people and discriminated-against groups will take deliberate public policies and action by unions and their social movement allies. The Clean Energy Future will create a substantial number of new jobs. The increase in jobs created, compared to the business-as-usual scenario, will start around 200,000 per year in 2016–2020 and rise to 800,000 a year in 2046–2050. The average job gain compared to business-as-usual scenario is 550,000 per year for the entire period.

Corbyn: Toward A Green Industrial Revolution

September 14, 2016 Jeremy Corbyn, www.counterpunch.org Create! Clean Energy, Jeremy Corbyn, Solar Energy

By Jeremy Corbyn for Counter Punch - In 2015 the world came together to agree the landmark Paris Climate Agreement aimed at keeping global temperature rises to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. And just in time: we are facing a climate crisis. 2016 is set to be the hottest year on record and greenhouse gas emissions globally are still not falling. We are seeing the impacts of climate change much earlier than anyone predicted – around the world and at home.

Colorado Agrees To Pay Solar Owners Higher Rates For Peak Power

August 25, 2016 Bob Berwyn, www.insideclimatenews.org Create! Colorado, Solar Energy

By Bob Berwyn for Inside Climate News - After proposing higher fixed charges, Colorado's biggest electricity utility worked with solar advocates on a compromise, following deals in other states. Colorado's largest electricity provider, Xcel Energy, reached a rate settlement that will pay homeowners with rooftop solar systems a premium price for power they produce when demand is highest. The deal still needs approval from the state's Public Utilities Commission, but it came after widespread opposition to its previously proposed fixed charges that many said would stifle growth of rooftop solar systems.

California Fast Tracks Solar Permits

July 31, 2016 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org Create! California, Climate Change, Energy, Solar Energy

By Zahra Hirji for Inside Climate News. California cities are leading the nation in eliminating one of the biggest hurdles to the growth of residential solar: lengthy and confusing permitting. Spurred by a recent state law, hundreds of California communities have streamlined their permit process for small residential solar systems over the past year, some bringing it down to a single day. Some cities have also fast-tracked inspections to within a few days of permit approvals. The outcome? The state's biggest cities are now processing and signing off on hundreds of these solar projects each month. San Jose, for example, streamlined its permit review and approval process last August and has since approved more than 4,500 residential rooftop solar permits. That's a nearly 600 percent increase over the previous year, when San Jose, California's third-largest city, permitted a mere 661.

“Solar for All”: How Utilities Can Increase Access To Solar Energy

June 27, 2016 John Rogers, www.blog.ucsusa.org Create! Public Utilities, Solar Energy

By John Rogers for USCUSA - A new report looks at what utilities can do to “bring solar within reach” for a broader swath of U.S. households, particularly in lower-income areas and communities of color. The answer: a lot. Solar for All is a product of the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), thePartnership for Southern Equity, and the South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development, and is supported by more than a dozen other state and regional organizations.

Chile Producing So Much Solar Energy It’s Giving Electricity Away For Free

June 7, 2016 Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com Create! Renewable Energy, Solar Energy

By Lorraine Chow for Eco Watch - In a new Bloomberg report, Chile Has So Much Solar Energy It’s Giving It Away for Free, solar capacity from the country’s central grid has increased four fold to 770 megawatts since 2013. Another 1.4 gigawatts will be added this year with many solar power projects under development. Thanks to an economic boost from increased mining production, Chile now has 29 solar farms and another 15 in the pipeline.

Storing The Sun’s Energy Just Got A Whole Lot Cheaper

May 26, 2016 Joe Romm, www.thinkprogress.org Create! Climate Change, Solar Energy

By Joe Romm for Think Progress - With prices dropping rapidly for both renewables and battery storage, the economics of decarbonizing the grid are changing faster than most policymakers, journalists, and others realize. So, as part of my ongoing series, “Almost Everything You Know About Climate Change Solutions Is Outdated,” I will highlight individual case studies of this real-time revolution. My Monday post discussed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) report that in the first quarter, the U.S. grid added 18 megawatts of new natural gas generating capacity, but 1,291 MW of new renewables.

Disrupting Solar

May 9, 2016 Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Energy, Solar Energy

By Peter Diamandis for The Huffington Post - In the next 20 years, between 50 percent to 100 percent of the world’s energy production could come from solar. Today, the global oil and natural gas industry is about a $4 trillion business. It’s big money, and in the U.S., 67 percent of the electricity generated in 2015 was from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum). This is about to change.

New Record Set For World’s Cheapest Solar

May 7, 2016 Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Solar Energy

By Lorraine Chow for Eco Watch - The price of solar power dipped to another record low on May 1 when five international companies bid as little as 2.99 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) to develop the latest phase of work at Dubai’s enormous Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park, which will be one of Earth’s largest solar plants when complete. At less than 3 cents per kWh, that’s 15 percent lower than the previous record-low bid of 3.5 cents per kWh from Italy’s Enel Green Power for a solar project in Mexico, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

10 States Blocking The Power Of The Sun

May 2, 2016 Staff, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Renewable Energy, Solar Energy

By Staff of Center for Biological Diversity - The 10 states highlighted in Throwing Shade: 10 Sunny States Blocking Distributed Solar Development—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin—account for more than 35 percent of the total rooftop-solar technical potential in the contiguous U.S., but only 6 percent of total installed capacity. “Thanks to weak and nonexistent policies, the distributed-solar markets in these states have never been given a chance to shine,”

Newsletter: Ending The Political Charade

April 23, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance Newsletter Baltimore, climate crisis, COP21, Democracy, Democracy Spring, Divestment, Environmental racism, Fracking, Freddie Gray, Freedom of the Press, Gas, Incinerators, killed by police, Noam Chomsky, Nonviolence, Nuclear Energy, Nuit Debout, Police violence, Racism, Solar Energy, TPP, wealth inequality, Wind

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. This week, on Earth Day, representatives from 130 countries gathered at the United Nations in New York City to sign the climate treaty agreed upon in Paris last December. As they smiled for the camera and promised to do their best to hold the temperature down, climate activists posted an open letter stating that it is too late, the climate emergency is already here. Leading up to the signing of the Paris Treaty this week were actions to stop the advance of fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Many events to mark the one year anniversary are taking place this week and the next in Baltimore to remember the uprising. Erica Chenoweth, the author of "How Civil Resistance Works", writes that elections both locally and globally are being shaped by nonviolent resistance. In the US, no matter who is elected president in the November election, it will be critical for those who have been activated to continue to organize and visibly protest.

San Francisco Becomes First Big US City Requiring Solar Panels On New Buildings

April 22, 2016 Biz Carson, www.businessinsider.com Create! Housing, San Francisco, Solar Energy

By Biz Carson for Business Insider - San Francisco may be known for its fog, but the city wants to turn the sunny days it does get into power for its buildings. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously passed legislation that would require new construction that is shorter than 10 floors to install solar panels or solar water heaters on top of both new residential and commercial buildings.

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