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Will You Pay Extra for Green Power?
Around one-fourth of the country’s utilities offer green power programs, and at present big utility companies can’t deliver 100 percent renewable power to their customers. Rather, their electricity comes from different sources such as coal plants, solar power farms, and wind farms and go through the same power grid. Some consumer advocacy groups have stated [...]
NASCAR Races to the Green Finish Line
Image by mandj98 via Flickr NASCAR might be one of the organizations that have faced the ire of environmentalists, but things are about to change. Pennsylvania’s Pocono Raceway is planning to build a three-megawatt solar power plant that will provide the facility with electricity. The raceway hosts two NASCAR events each year. Once completed, the [...]
Data Centers Go Solar
I/o Data Centers, an IT infrastructure provider located in Phoenix, will turn to the sun for some of its power supply. It is set to install a huge solar panel array that will generate a maximum of 4.5 megawatts of electricity. Source Article: Data Centers Go Solar Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]
Eugene Water and Electric Board’s Solar Electric Program
Oregon State’s Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB) has a Solar Electric Program that gives incentives for commercial and residential clients who produces electricity with the use of solar photovoltaic systems. Source Article Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]
Washington State’s Renewable Energy Sales and Use Tax Exemption
In the State of Washington, sales of equipment used to generate electricity via sustainable energy are tax-exempt. Energy sources that are eligible for this exemption are wind, sun, fuel cells, biomass energy, tidal or wave energy, anaerobic digestion, geothermal, and landfill gas. This is how the state rewards those who incorporate the use of renewable [...]
Eugene Water and Electric Board’s Solar Electric Program
Oregon State’s Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB) has a Solar Electric Program that gives incentives for commercial and residential clients who produces electricity with the use of solar photovoltaic systems. Customers can receive rebates when they choose net metering. For those generating more than 10 kilowatts, they can choose not to net meter but [...]
Data Centers Go Solar
I/o Data Centers, an IT infrastructure provider located in Phoenix, will turn to the sun for some of its power supply. It is set to install a huge solar panel array that will generate a maximum of 4.5 megawatts of electricity. It would be enough to partially power the data center, which has a maximum [...]
Washington State’s Renewable Energy Sales and Use Tax Exemption
In the State of Washington, sales of equipment used to generate electricity via sustainable energy are tax-exempt. Energy sources that are eligible for this exemption are wind, sun, fuel cells, biomass energy, tidal or wave energy, anaerobic digestion, geothermal, and landfill gas. This is how the state rewards those who incorporate the use of renewable [...]
Do It Yourself Solar Collector
A do-it-yourself solar collector can turn solar energy into thermal energy. Thermal energy comes from heat, and should not be confused with electrical energy that comes from a solar panel. A solar panel converts the sun’s energy into electricity, whereas a solar collector simply absorbs the sun’s radiation and uses it to create heat. This [...]
Homemade Solar Cell
Making a homemade solar cell is not very practical. For one, there are inexpensive solar panels available in the market these days. You can find great bargains online. Second, making a solar cell is a very tedious process. You will spend a lot of time making one. A solar panel consists of hundreds of solar [...]
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