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Skinner bill expands solar energy buy-back program in California(0)

February 22, 2010

The California Legistlature adopted a Bill written by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, that would allow utilities to buy up to 5 percent of their energy from customers. Current law limits those purchases to 2.5 percent.
The Assembly adopted the bill on a 53-1 vote and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said the governor intends to sign it. The [...]

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New Green Home Solutions

Green living begins at home, and New Green Home Solutions tells you how. Most of the energy-derived pollution we produce comes as a direct result of our homes – how we heat them, how we cool them, how we keep them well-lit and full of things that make our lives so comfortable. The good news [...]

Got Sun?

Learn a new vocabulary! Take a refresher course on the electrical power of the sun and the wind! Although the enthusiasm of renewable-energy experts Ewing and Pratt might get a bit wearing, they’ve developed a nontechnical reference and guide for home owners thinking about pulling the plug on their utility connections. In fact, after a [...]

Turning a brown site green in Fairhaven, MA

Every once in a while a project comes along that everyone can support. The Town of Fairhaven, MA has just such a project. They are proposing to build a solar power plant on top of the town landfill turning a ‘brown site’ – ‘green’.
The proposed plant will generate about 500kw of energy which the town [...]


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