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Leased solar panels can complicate or kill a home sale
2015-03-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Can going green by leasing solar panels for your roof cost you money - or give you headaches - when you go to sell the house? Possibly both. Say you get pitched by one of the growing number of companies offering solar panels at no upfront cost that they claim will save you lots of money on electricity bills. Sounds like a slam-dunk. So you sign on. Then a few years later you decide to sell the house. You assume that the presence of solar panels can only be a marketing plus, maybe even get...
More than 1 Million Solar Panels to Be Installed by FPL
2015-02-04 20:47:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
Florida Power & Light Co. has announced details about its plans to build substantially more solar energy capacity as part of its ongoing strategy of advancing clean energy while keeping electricity affordable for customers. read more
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University of Richmond to install solar panels on recreation center
2015-01-26 22:29:00| American School & University
The 204-kilowatt array of photovoltaic panels atop the Weinstein Center for Recreation and Wellness will enable the university to generate an additional 226,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. Content Classification: Curated read more
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Solar Panels Floating on Water Could Power Japan's Homes
2015-01-16 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Nowadays, bodies of water aren't necessarily something to build around-they're something to build on. They sport not just landfills and man-made beaches but also, in a nascent global trend, massive solar power plants. Clean energy companies are turning to lakes, wetlands, ponds, and canals as building grounds for sunlight-slurping photovoltaic panels. So far, floating solar structures have been announced in, among other countries, the United Kingdom, Australia, India, and Italy. The biggest floating...
Unleash Chinese solar panels to fight climate change
2014-12-21 08:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: The Obama administration has further undermined its carbon-reduction goals by putting up a needless barrier to imported renewables. On Tuesday, the administration toughened existing tariffs on Chinese-made solar panels, which increase their cost to American consumers by 27 to 78 percent. At a time when the administration is seeking to prod the US economy to move away from fossil fuel reliance, making renewables artificially more expensive is precisely the wrong move. After years of false starts,...
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