[ad_1] YABUCOA, Puerto Rico, Aug. 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Eleven months since their three-building school was first plunged into darkness by Hurricane Maria, 140 students in Puerto Rico’s picturesque Yabucoa district have reliable power. Resilient electricity service was provided Saturday to the SU Manuel Ortiz school through an innovative scalable, plug-and-play sunshine-to-energy module pioneered […]

[ad_1] The born-again, century-old “Old Main Heating Plant” on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota is a proxy for a greener Minnesota’s economy. That’s a job-producing, smog-reducing trend that also combats climate change that’s warming the planet and driving weather volatility. “Old Main,” a dirty, once-shuttered, coal-fired plant, was relaunched last December as […]

[ad_1] I don’t know of any place where one can have so much fun with a bag of frozen peas than Santa Catalina Island. Last week, my family and I took the Catalina Express from Long Beach and made the channel crossing to Avalon. After checking into our hotel, one of the first things we […]

[ad_1] NEW ORLEANS — Pumping carbon dioxide into the air makes the planet greener; the United Nations puts out fake science about climate change to control the global energy market; and wind and solar energy are simply “dumb.” These are among the messages that flowed from the America First Energy Conference in New Orleans this […]

[ad_1] Spanish Town solar farm on St. Croix (Bill Kossler photo) BMR Energy, a clean energy company owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, is taking over St. Croix’s four-megawatt solar farm in Estate Spanish Town. BMR officials say they are “set to receive approval from the utility to purchase another hurricane-damaged USVI solar project in […]