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Sesame Solar aims to provide renewable energy even in the face of disasters and can also be used to stay off the grid in remote areas.

Mobile solar solution provides access to clean water and emergency power

Sesame Solar, a U.S.-based startup in the renewable sector, aims to provide renewable energy even in the face of disasters. Its mobile nano-grid solution can also be used to stay off the grid in remote areas. All it needs is sunlight and water.

When a natural disaster strikes, power and water ae disrupted. Until grid-based power can be restored, generators are often rushed to the site. Powered by fossil fuels, these contribute to carbon emissions. At a time when natural disasters are common, Sesame Solar has a simple solution to keep the diesel generator at bay.

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Source: Interesting Engineering

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The SMMUSD, one of the city’s largest energy consumers, is set to begin the transition to running on 100% renewable energy.

Santa Monica Malibu-Unified School District to transition to 100% renewable energy

The Santa Monica Malibu-Unified School District (SMMUSD), one of the city’s largest energy consumers, is set to begin the transition to running on 100% renewable energy.

The move, which was approved by the Board of Education with a unanimous thumbs-up at their March 15 meeting, is expected to be finalized by the end of the year.

The decision follows mounting pressure from district staff, teachers and students for SMMUSD to take greater strides towards sustainability in the face of climate change.

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Source: Santa Monica Daily Press

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The Netherlands today has an average of two solar panels per inhabitant - and installed capacity of more than 1 kilowatt (KW) per person

Floating solar and trash mountains: How the Netherlands became Europe’s solar power leader

In the Dutch countryside, about 130 km east of Amsterdam, an unusual-looking hill towers and glistens above farmhouses, leafless trees, and muddy grassland.

The hill – 25 metres tall – is built from 15 years’ worth of household and business waste. What’s remarkable is what’s covering it: 23,000 solar panels.

Dutch solar developer TPSolar opened the array, which can produce up to 8.9 megawatts of power, in Armhoede, in the east of the Netherlands, in mid-2020. The former landfill now generates enough electricity for about 2,500 households.

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Source: Euro News

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San Diego Community Power provides at least 55 percent of its power from renewable sources such as hydroelectric, solar, wind and geothermal

Some San Diego County residents given option for cleaner, cheaper power

Residents and businesses in unincorporated areas of San Diego County are being offered an alternative to San Diego Gas & Electric.

By default, SDG&E customers in Ramona, Julian, Wynola, Jamul, Valley Center, Descanso and Borrego Springs will automatically be enrolled in San Diego Community Power’s services unless they opt out by April 1. Opting out will be allowed before and after that date by entering SDG&E billing information online at https://sdcommunitypower.org/your-choice/opt-out/.

San Diego Community Power, based in Liberty Station in San Diego, provides electricity generation services for its customers, not gas services. If customers opt for the new service, SDG&E will continue the transmission and delivery of gas and electric power as well as billing for customers, said Jen Lebron, San Diego Community Power director of public affairs.

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Source: San Diego Union Tribune | Ramona Sentinel

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Minnesota joins 10 other states with commitments to 100% clean energy. These 11 states account for more than 1/4 of the country’s total electricity consumption.

Eleven states have committed to 100% clean electricity

On Feb. 7, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a clean energy bill into law that requires the state’s utilities to get 100% of their electricity from carbon-free energy sources by 2040.

Minnesota now joins 10 other states with commitments to 100% clean or renewable energy — several of them driven largely by our advocacy and the support of people like you.

Together, these 11 states account for more than a fourth of our country’s total electricity consumption. These commitments are helping change the energy landscape — we know America could power itself on renewable energy many times over; we know our country today generates three times more clean, renewable electricity than it did in 2012; we know renewable energy adoption continues to exceed expectations, and that solar, wind and other renewable energy sources provided nearly three-quarters of new electrical generating capacity in 2022.

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Source: Environment America

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Auckland Airport plans to power up its roofs with the country’s largest rooftop solar array on its new Mānawa Bay outlet centre.

Auckland Airport to build giant rooftop solar array

Auckland Airport plans to power up its roofs with the country’s largest rooftop solar array on its new Mānawa Bay outlet centre.

The array on the 35,000m² building under construction to the north-east of the airport precinct, would generate 2.3 megawatts of electricity. That was enough to meet the equivalent of 80% of the 100-store mall’s power usage when it opened next year, chief executive Carrie Hurihanganui​ said.

The $300 million transport hub under construction opposite the international terminal would support another solar array of 1.2MW on its 14,000m² roof, enough to power the attached office building and electric vehicle charging stations within the car park, she said.

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Source: Stuff

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NGOs and governments have implemented renewable energy plans in different communities in the Amazon with positive results.

Electricity day and night: Solar power is changing isolated Amazon communities

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Growing up, Maria de Fátima Batista often studied in the dark, using a candle or lantern for light because the riverine community where she lives in Brazil’s Amazon did not have electricity.

Today, aged 58, Batista, her family and the rest of the Terra Firme community, which sits by the banks of the Madeira River in Rondônia state, now have 24-hour electricity via solar panels and batteries, installed last year by local firm (re)energisa, the renewables arm of Brazil’s Energisa Group.

Her grandchildren don’t need a candle or lamp to study when it gets dark; she freezes foodstuffs, including the baked goods she sells, and the community now communicates in real time with local authorities.

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Source: MONGABAY

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The Home Depot is partnering with DSD Renewables to install 13MW of solar power on the rooftops at 25 store locations in California.

The Home Depot is installing 13MW of solar power across California

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The Home Depot is partnering with DSD Renewables (DSD) to install 13 megawatts (MW) of solar power on the rooftops at 25 store locations in California. This is a part of The Home Depot’s renewable energy goal to produce or procure 100 percent renewable energy equivalent to the electricity needs for all Home Depot facilities by 2030.

Construction is set to start early this year. These panels will generate more than 17 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of clean energy annually and provide direct power to the different store locations.

Currently, the company operates rooftop solar farms on more than 80 stores and electricity-generating fuel cells in more than 200 stores.

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Source: CSR Wire

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Replacing coal power plants across the United States with renewable energy projects would reduce carbon emissions and require less water.

Replacing US coal plants with solar and wind is cheaper than running them

Replacing coal power plants across the United States with renewable energy projects would reduce carbon emissions and require less water.

Add to the list: It would also save money.

Nearly all existing US coal plants require more cash to operate than the cost of replacing them with new wind or solar projects, according to a report published Monday by San Francisco-based climate think tank Energy Innovation.

The finding is in line with past research by BloombergNEF that determined building new solar and wind farms is cheaper than operating existing coal or gas power plants in much of the world.

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Source: BNN Bloomberg

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A 500kV, 125-mile transmission line between CA and AZ broke ground to give over 3GW of renewable energy capacity to the US Desert SW region.

Construction begins on 3GW transmission line between Arizona and California

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A 500kV, 125-mile transmission line between California and Arizona broke ground last week, promising to bring over 3GW of renewable energy capacity to the US Desert Southwest region.

Construction of the Ten West Link line was inaugurated by US vice president Kamala Harris and a number of federal and state officials last week, including secretary of the interior Deb Haaland and secretary of energy Jennifer Granholm.

The Department of the Interior said that the Ten West project will have the conductor capacity to transmit 3.2GW of solar capacity. Running across one of the US’ richest regions for solar potential, announcements of the construction highlighted the aim for the transmission line to accommodate significant solar PV and solar-plus-storage capacity additions.

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Source: PV Tech

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