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Solar power could be world’s main energy source by 2050
By mid-century, the sun could be the largest source of energy and help reign in global warming by preventing the release of billions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new report from...
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Mr. Sunshine
In the lobby of SolarCity's glass and stone headquarters in San Mateo, Calif., six young men in Dockers and solid shirts--Silicon Valley's uniform--sit waiting, glued to their smartphone screens. A...
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A North Carolina cigarette plant gets a new life
The Philip Morris plant in Concord, North Carolina used to manufacture a billion cigarettes a year. But Americans are smoking less, and in the tobacco giant shuttered the factory’s doors years ago and...
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Solar flares: U.S. slaps new tariffs on China, Taiwan imports
The United States on Tuesday confirmed steep import duties on solar products from China and Taiwan, in a decision that could inflame trade tensions between the two countries. Anti-dumping duties for...
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SolarCity’s shares drop as fourth-quarter losses pile up
SolarCity, the solar power systems company founded by Elon Musk and his cousins, met Wall Street’s expectations with a 52% bump in revenue in the most recent quarter. However, growing expenses left the...
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Is an eclipse going to give Europe power blackouts next month?
How do you stop blackouts when your electricity grid depends on solar power and then a solar eclipse takes it all offline? That’s the question bothering the people who manage Europe’s power grids right...
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Green jobs are growing, but politics get in the way
The technology to produce solar and wind energy keeps getting better and cheaper, electric cars are more practical and more popular than ever, and scientists' warnings about climate change keep getting...
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California is first state with 5% of its electricity from solar
California’s big push into clean energy is seeing results as the state became the first with at least 5% of its overall electricity coming from large-scale solar projects last year. That’s according to...
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This may be the future of solar power
A company in Sweden is claiming to have designed a system that can convert 34% of sunlight into solar energy, potentially changing the future of solar power. Ripasso, the company behind the...
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Everything you need to know about Solar Impulse
The Solar Impulse 2, a plane attempting to fly around the world using solar power, was forced to land Monday in Nagoya, Japan due to inclement weather. The experimental aircraft -- flown and financed...
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Here’s how Ikea is fighting climate change
Ikea has seen its net income increase 31% in the past five years, a tribute to its popularity with customers. But there’s one area where the furniture retailer isn’t resonating with consumers as much...
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This U.S. state could win big from the EPA’s clean power plan
Twenty-five years ago, the electric utility industry said the sky was falling during Congressional debate over amendments to the Clean Air Act to reduce acid rain. They used a one-two approach, first...
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Softbank will spend $20 billion to power India’s solar ambitions
This article is published in partnership with Time.com. The original version can be found here. By Rohit Inani @josefkisdrunk The Japanese telecoms giant Softbank SBHGF has announced plans to invest...
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The state creating the most green jobs is…Georgia?
Green employment in the U.S. is tiny, but it keeps picking up steam. In the first three months of 2015, about 40 new renewable energy and clean transportation projects were launched in 19 states,...
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Behind the scenes with Facebook’s new solar-powered Internet drone and laser...
Facebook has made no bones about wanting to blanket the planet with Internet connectivity, and it's developed a huge, solar-powered aircraft to help it do so. The unmanned aircraft, called Aquila, has...
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Meet the world’s first entirely solar-powered airport
This article is published in partnership with Time.com. The original version can be found here. By Alissa Greenberg Cochin International Airport in the southern Indian state of Kerala became the...
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Coming soon: The biggest solar farm east of the Rocky Mountains
Most of the really large, sprawling solar farms have been built in the Southwest of the U.S., in sun-soaked states like California, Nevada, and Arizona. But this week clean power company SunEdison...
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Obama says there’s an energy revolution underway
While President Obama took the opportunity to unveil new federal actions to boost clean energy during a speech at a conference in Las Vegas on Monday, he also used the time to do something a little...
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Oil’s downward spiral is spooking renewable energy investors
For the first half of 2015, the renewable energy sector appeared unstoppable, as costs around the world plunged and installed capacity soared. Ahead of an international climate summit in Paris at the...
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Solar panels just broke another record in the U.S.
The market to install solar panels on the roofs of homes in the U.S. set another record in the second quarter of this year, indicating a shift in the U.S. solar panel industry towards home owners and...
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