Category: Green Building LEED News
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Clean Elections Big Theme in 2015
Perhaps the most intriguing idea passed in Seattle, where voters approved the use of Democracy Vouchers.
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Ideal Power receives 14.5-MW order for mix of power conversion tech
Retaining previous business is always a good thing, and growing that business is even better. Ideal Power, a developer of power conversion technologies, just received an order for 14.5 MW of its power conversion products for use in Battery Energy Storage Systems predominately for California and Hawaii. The order comes fromRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar bad for the poor? SEIA fights Wall Street Journal op-ed
The Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece a few weeks ago titled “This Child Doesn’t Need a Solar Panel” with the subhead “Spending billions of dollars on climate-related aid in countries that need help with tuberculosis, malaria and malnutrition.” The intentions of the columnist might have been in aRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Blockbuster Climate News: China Seriously Under-Reports Emissions
Not only will China have to adjust its emissions forecasts and reassess its renewable energy goals, it affects worldwide forecasts of climate change.
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Solar ag boost: More USDA loans, grants available for renewable projects
The ag sector is an important one for solar, so the announcement last week from the USDA that it is awarding loans and grants that will help more than 1,100 rural small businesses and agricultural producers reduce energy usage and costs in their operations is a welcome one. The funding isRead More — Solar Builder magazine