Net Zero Schools in Kentucky: Models for the Future Come from Surprising Places This week, I asked a close friend to guess which state boasted the nation’s first net zero public elementary school. “California?” he ventured. “Vermont?” “Massachusetts?” No, no, and no. How about Kentucky, the nation’s third largest coal producer, with $5 bn in annual coal revenues and the nation’s fourth lowest electricity cost?
Today the City of San Francisco, the San Francisco Giants, ChargePoint® and ABM (ABM), a leading provider of integrated facility solutions, unveiled four new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at AT&T Park. The stadium is the first ballpark in California to offer public access to Level 2 electric vehicle charging stations, a next-generation technology that can charge an EV in four hours, or about the length …
The aisles of a typical Walgreens drugstore are stacked with products promoting their green attributes, whether they are towels made from recycled paper or makeup brushes made from fast-growing grass. lan Rider for The New York Times But increasingly, on the roof, a less visible green endeavor is under way, in the form of solar panels feeding power to the store. Walgreens, which has installed 134 …
Sunlight bathes us in far more energy than we could ever need—if we could just catch enough. National Geographic.
A story making rounds this week, “why power generators are terrified of solar,” presents a powerful image that may flip this conventional wisdom on its head. Building lots of solar power can actually reduce electricity prices, to the dismay of utilities. What’s happened in Germany is the “merit order effect.” Because utilities have purchased all this solar capacity on long-term contracts, there is effectively zero marginal …
Acquisition Expands ABM Franchising Group and Strengthens Electrical Services Capabilities NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– ABM (NYSE:ABM), a leading provider of integrated facility solutions, today announced that Linc Network, LLC, a subsidiary of ABM Facility Solutions, has acquired the franchise operations of TEGG Corporation, an expansive network delivering comprehensive electrical service and preventive and predictive maintenance solutions to commercial and industrial facilities. TEGG’s franchise network, concentrated mainly in …
The solar industry has been a crazy business to follow since I started at The Motley Fool. Stocks have been crushed, installations have risen, and the cost to install solar modules has fallen dramatically. The best solar stock in America I am splitting my solar picks into American companies and Chinese companies because there are vast differences between the two, which I’ll explain later. The best …
Third Generation Maxeon Solar Cell Delivers Efficiency Rating of up to 24 Percent SAN JOSE, Calif., March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems today announced that its third generation SunPower® Maxeon™ solar cell (Maxeon) is now in commercial production. This world-record efficiency solar cell delivers sunlight to electricity conversion efficiency …
(Reuters) – The national solar industry installed a record number of panels in 2011, more than double 2010, and is likely to see strong growth again this year, according to a new report. Solar installers built 1,855 megawatts of photovoltaic projects in 2011 for a total of $8.4 billion, up from 887 MW in 2010, according to a report released by GTM Research and the Solar …
“We finished the year with a better than expected fourth quarter, as demand for SunPower’s differentiated technology sold through our diversified downstream channels enabled us to reach annual records in both revenue and shipments,” said Tom Werner, SunPower president and CEO. “Operationally, we achieved both our panel production cost target and accelerated manufacturing step reduction program milestones. Research and development investment results included initial volume production …
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