Category: Green Building LEED News
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Obama Administration Launches Smart Cities Initiative
The goal is to use big data to tackle the various challenges cities face, including climate change.
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Live at SPI: Opening panel covers ITC, financing and what’s next (and best) for solar
The 2015 Solar Power International conference kicked off with a stellar panel discussion that covered all of the big picture issues facing the industry today: the ITC, the Clean Power Plan, financing and the new technologies that might best supplement the solar industry going forward. Here are some notes andRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Want to Invest in Green, Socially Responsible Companies? Morningstar Plans to Help
For the first time, investors will be able to compare funds based on the social and environmental responsibility of their holdings using Morningstar’s platform.
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Conergy, NEXTracker launch Latin America and Caribbean Solar Alliance (panel at #SPIcon)
How do you help spur solar industry initiatives, while presenting a unified voice in an area that needs it? Form an alliance, of course. That’s at least what Conergy, a large downstream solar company, and NEXTracker, the world’s fastest-growing solar tracking company, are doing by launching the Latin America andRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Maryland community goes to 100 percent renewable energy, thanks to SunEdison
SunEdison Inc. announced a partnership with BITHENERGY leading into SPI (obligatory SPI coverage link!) that will help Columbia, Md., to offset 100 percent of its energy use from renewable sources. Columbia now sources 75 percent of its energy from wind renewable energy credits, and 25 percent from a newly completed 2 MW DCRead More — Solar Builder magazine