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- Germany’s Expensive Gamble on Renewable Energy (8/27/14)
Companies Worry Cost of Plan to Trim Nuclear, Fossil Fuels Will Undermine Competitiveness
- Peterborough OKs state’s largest solar array project (7/23/14)
PETERBOROUGH — Within 30 minutes of the start of the Special Town Meeting on Tuesday, voters cheered and applauded their unanimous vote to OK construction of what will be the largest solar array in the state.
- SolarCity strikes marketing deal with Carrier (5/6/14)
Farmington air conditioning manufacturer Carrier has partnered with California clean energy installer SolarCity to market solar systems to Carrier customers.
- Lights go out on shared solar (5/1/14)
Legislation that would have helped Connecticut residents benefit from solar electricity systems even if their homes couldn't support a solar system is dead for this legislative session
- RWA (CT) and SolarCity Commemorate Major Solar Installation (4/28/14)
“This solar photovoltaic system, one of the largest of its kind in Connecticut, will allow the Authority to be more efficient and lower our energy costs. These savings are passed on to our customers in the form of reduced rate increases,” said Larry L. Bingaman, the Regional Water Authority’s President and CEO.
- Solar bill’s failure on Beacon Hill was a missed opportunity for utilities (8/2/14)
Plenty of people in the clean-tech industry were disappointed that an ambitious bill to overhaul the state’s solar incentives didn’t make it to the finish line last week.
- PolitiFact R.I. rules Sen. Whitehouse claim on solar, coal jobs is True (7/6/14)
PROVIDENCE -- For more than a year, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has delivered weekly Senate speeches about the dangers of climate change. He frequently denounces climate-change deniers, and urges growth of green jobs and technologies to reduce America’s reliance on foreign fossil fuel.
- Solar farm may help Cheshire cut electric bills (5/5/14)
CHESHIRE >> What started out as a Yale University master’s degree program class project on solar energy for Tim White is now being considered by the Town Council as a way for the community to cut its electric bills.
- Schools see solar projects as way to educate, save (4/28/14)
Several schools are hoping to add rooftop solar projects to their campuses in order to cut back on annual energy costs – and incorporate an educational component at the same time.
- Maine bill mandating study of solar power becomes law (4/25/14)
AUGUSTA — A bill that aims to boost solar power development in Maine has gone into law without Gov. Paul LePage’s signature.