[ad_1] BELCHERTOWN — Two companies with plans to build large commercial solar arrays on private land in Belchertown are facing opposition from a community group that does not want to see forestland cleared to make room for green energy. Syncarpha Community Solar of New York and BlueWave Solar of Boston have each proposed building approximately […]
[ad_1] Nearly 23 million children are out of school in Pakistan. Rohayl Varind wanted to bring them back. So, in December 2016, the 23-year old social activist and educationist set up two branches of Slum School in Faisalabad, around 323 kilometres south of capital Islamabad, offering night classes to children. The school does not accept […]
[ad_1] Scientists have developed a pioneering new technique that could generate enough electricity to power an entire home – all by using solar panels that are much smaller than current models. A team of experts from the University of Exeter has discovered an innovative way for generating photovoltaic (PV) energy – or ways in which […]
[ad_1] Wartime technologies have always had a habit of working their way into post-war civilian applications – everything from microwaves to GPS to the internet, drones, jetengines, duct tape and super glue, to name a few. These are high-end and seemingly simple technologies that have not only advanced an armed force’s success in any given […]
[ad_1] Joan Kimball, a longtime resident of Philadelphia’s Fairmount neighborhood, considers herself an environmentalist and is doing her part to help the planet and the city by becoming the 150th homeowner to switch to solar power under a city program. “It’s going to be the wave of the future,” she said. “We have to go […]
[ad_1] A new solar array powering Middletown’s water treatment at the Higby reservoirs is expected to save the city about $9,000 every year in electricity bills. Officials held a ribbon-cutting for the new solar project Thursday morning, but the array has been running for about a month. The 714 panels in nine rows on a […]
[ad_1] Let’s say you want to have access to clean energy but you don’t have a house that has the right roof orientation. Or you don’t want to pay for an entire system up front. Or you’re a renter. Community solar is an option. “It allows all those people to collect together and essentially serve […]
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[ad_1] The Grand Island Utilities Department is looking toward the future of renewable energy sources through a solar energy project. Industrial-grade solar panels are being installed on a piece of land the department has owned for decades and had been renting out as farm land. The project at 380 Museum Drive, just north of JBS, […]
[ad_1] A rooftop solar array sits atop a warehouse roof less than a mile away from the five-story, 133-room hotel, in background, that the array will be powering. The hotel, a Courtyard by Marriott-Lancaster operated by High Hotels Ltd. in East Lampeter Township, will be the first Marriott powered entirely by solar energy. – (Photo […]
