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Can L.A. lead the world on climate? We'll soon find out
1 year, 1 month ago

Can L.A. lead the world on climate? We'll soon find out

LA Times  

The downtown Los Angeles skyline with snow-capped mountains in the background, seen in January. The clean energy road map — crafted by the nonprofit Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator and endorsed by city and county officials, state agencies and utility company Southern California Edison, among others — lays out aggressive new climate goals for Los Angeles County. “I do worry that …

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Solar sprawl is tearing up the Mojave Desert. Is there a better way?
1 year, 5 months ago

Solar sprawl is tearing up the Mojave Desert. Is there a better way?

LA Times  

High above the Las Vegas Strip, solar panels blanketed the roof of Mandalay Bay Convention Center — 26,000 of them, rippling across an area larger than 20 football fields. It was the entrance to a desert tortoise burrow — one of thousands catalogued by her employer, Primergy Solar, during construction of one of the nation’s largest solar farms on public …

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Sunrun CEO Powell sees need for more rooftop solar
2 years, 4 months ago

Sunrun CEO Powell sees need for more rooftop solar

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — As the head of the nation’s largest rooftop solar installer, Mary Powell has a stake in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act, which includes tax credits to make rooftop solar more affordable. Now that President Joe Biden has signed the legislation into law, Powell believes the residential solar industry’s growth will accelerate, inching the nation closer to …

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Column: This solar company wouldn’t let a dead woman out of her contract
3 years, 6 months ago

Column: This solar company wouldn’t let a dead woman out of her contract

LA Times  

A solar-power company sold a 25-year contract to a 91-year-old California woman. She had an AT&T email address.” De Jong contacted the solar company, Vivint Solar, which was acquired by San Francisco’s Sunrun last October. It said cracking down on solar companies “is all the more urgent” in light of Sunrun’s acquisition of Vivint. Both companies, it said, “have track …

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California is scrambling to avoid blackouts. Your refrigerator could help
3 years, 11 months ago

California is scrambling to avoid blackouts. Your refrigerator could help

LA Times  

Sometime next summer, there’s a decent chance a heat wave will bake the American West, and California’s power grid will again be stretched to its limits. Subscribe Officials at the commission and the California Independent System Operator say they’re optimistic about so-called virtual power plants that string together hundreds or thousands of batteries, as well as “flexible demand” programs that …

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Pandemic is ray of light for solar industry
4 years, 1 month ago

Pandemic is ray of light for solar industry

Live Mint  

Between Covid-19 and natural disasters, Mother Nature threw Americans a curveball in 2020. Residential solar installations were down 23% sequentially in the second quarter, largely due to shelter-in-place orders that imposed restrictions on selling and installing systems, according to a quarterly report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie. The sticker shock seems to have boosted web traffic …

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