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Residential Solar Panels Are Net Win for Utility Companies, Analysis Finds
2015-06-30 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Households and businesses with solar panels deliver greater benefits to utility companies than they receive through programs like net metering, according to an analysis of 11 case studies from across the U.S. by the advocacy group Environment New York. Net metering programs credit solar panel owners at a fixed rate equal to or less than the retail price of electricity for providing the excess power they generate to the grid. Utility companies have been fighting those credits in recent years,...
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Why solar panels won't solve climate change
2015-06-20 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Bill McKibben had the first hybrid electric car in Vermont. His home in the countryside of the American state is covered in solar panels, and has all the right lights, but, he says, I dont try to fool myself thats how well solve climate change. Described by Time magazine as the planets best green journalist, and by the Boston Globe as the United States most distinguished environmentalist, McKibben will make his first visit to Ireland next week, to speak at Meeting the Challenge of Climate...
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FPL to build 5,700 solar panels at FIU
2015-06-06 06:58:54| Energy - Topix.net
Florida Power & Light Co. signed a partnership with Florida International University to install more than 5,700 solar panels on its engineering center in west Miami-Dade County.
Biologically Inspired Coating Will Improve Solar Panels, Researchers Say
2015-05-14 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Key characteristics of moths eyes, which are anti-reflective, and lotus leaves, which are water-repellant, inspired a new type of glass coating that could significantly improve the efficiency of solar panels, say researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The extremely durable coating can be customized to be fog-resistant, anti-reflective, and superhydrophobic meaning it repels water drops so efficiently that they barely make contact with the solar panel surface, literally bouncing off and...
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Solar panels from UI big help to nonprofit
2015-04-22 00:33:06| Energy - Topix.net
Tony Marone, senior vice president of customer and business services for UIL Holdings, talks about their collaboration with TEAM, Inc., the nonprofit organization that distributes energy assistance to Connecticut's lower Naugatuck Valley area, on a solar project that will help the non-profit reduce energy costs thanks to solar panels donated by the energy company. Photo: Autumn Driscoll Ed Crowder, UIL Holdings communications specialist, talks about the donation and installation of 18 solar panels on the roof of TEAM, Inc. in Derby, the nonprofit organization that distributes energy assistance to Connecticut's lower Naugatuck Valley area.
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