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California sets ambitious clean energy goals: net zero emissions and 100% clean energy by 2045, leading the nation once again.

Southern California projects help state achieve ambitious clean energy goals

California, once again, is leading the nation with its ambitious clean energy goals, which include calling for net zero emissions and 100% clean energy by 2045. Success will require exponential growth in battery storage facilities, solar power, electric vehicles, smart buildings and more – fueled by investment by both the private and public sector.

Perhaps surprisingly, one of the leading businesses helping with this transition is our company, Prologis, which is the global leader in logistics real estate. Actually, we are uniquely positioned to accelerate clean energy projects throughout Southern California to both serve our customers and help the state meet its far-reaching goals. Southern California is Prologis’ largest market, and the company has adopted- ed our own ambitious goal to have net zero emissions across our value chain by 2040 – five years earlier than the state’s climate plan.

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Source: Los Angeles Business Journal

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Unlike pv panels, which can power your home, solar thermal panels are mainly used to heat water. But they’re smaller and more efficient.

Solar water heaters were cool in 1980s. They could be again.

In the early 198os, my dad installed a solar thermal panel on our roof in Florida. For a 5-year-old, the big black square looked like a portal into the future. The device, essentially a glass box with metal water pipes running through it, converted sunlight into hot water. By trapping solar energy like a greenhouse, it heated the water to a scorching 180 degrees Fahrenheit.

It furnished much of the hot water for a family of four. “We had no trouble with it,” my dad tells me. “It was still working when we sold the house 10 years later.”
But today, hardly anyone is using these solar water heaters even as photovoltaic (PV) panels have popped up on the roofs of nearly 4 million American homes.

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Source: The Washington Post

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