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drought
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Despite Drought, Sunny California Set for Summer Power Needs
Post date:California's drought means a lot less power coming from dams, but the state has plenty of solar power.
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CaISO
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Did California Just Break Six Gigawatts of Grid Solar?
Post date:California might have broken another solar record, with 6,000 megawatts of solar flowing into the grid.
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asthma
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The EPA Just Ripped California's Big Renewable Energy Plan
Post date:The EPA's feedback may cause the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan's authors even more work.
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Vote Solar
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California Sets New Solar Records
Post date:At 10:20 a.m. on Thursday, the state's solar plants pushed California's grid past the five-gigawatt solar power mark for the first time in history.
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rooftop solar
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Toward The Sunset: California Solar Industry Eyes West-Facing Roofs
Post date:Rooftop solar has changed the way we use electrical power in California -- and that's changing how regulators are thinking about rooftop solar.
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Bernadette Del Chiaro
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Energy Looms Large in Brown's Historic Inauguration Speech
Post date:Jerry Brown would push California even further toward a renewable future.
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legislation
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New Energy Laws Take Effect in California
Post date:January 1 is a traditional day on which new laws approved by the California legislature go into effect, and a lot of new energy laws made their way past Governor Brown's desk in 2014. We've described the most important here.
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Photovoltaic
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Solar Permit Bill Heading to Governor's Desk
Post date:A bill that would make it a lot easier to get permits to put solar on your roof is headed for the Governor's desk, having been passed by both houses of the California Legislature.
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Science
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Study: It's Possible to Power All of California With Clean Energy, But...
Post date:A new study claims that California could power itself entirely with wind, water, solar, and geothermal energy by 2050, but it would require devoting more than 4,800 square miles of the state's land and waters to wind turbines and utility-scale solar po...
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Photovoltaic
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Bill Would Streamline Rooftop Solar Permits
Post date:A group of solar installers wearing hardhats descended on the State Capitol Tuesday to urge lawmakers to support a bill that would make it much easier to pull permits for rooftop solar projects.
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Eric Garcetti
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Rooftop Bling: Forever 21 HQ to Be Dressed in Solar Power
Post date:The planned 5.1-megawatt solar power system being installed on the rooftop of fashion retailer Forever 21's headquarters in Lincoln Heights is said to be the largest single-rooftop solar power system in L.A. County
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CaISO
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California Approaches 4 Gigawatts of Utility-Scale Solar Output
Post date:California set yet another solar power output record on Friday, and may have beaten that record just three days later.
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CaISO
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State May Have Set New Solar Record Today
Post date:Happy New Year: it looks as though California may have set a new solar record Thursday, with more than 3,000 megawatts of solar electricity flowing into the grid at noon.
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Is it Really That Simple? Study Finds Cheap Solution to Increasing Solar Power
Post date:A study of 50 solar homes in Austin, Texas hints that simply facing rooftop solar panels west instead of south can make those panels supply a bigger chunk of their owners' energy consumption.
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Cash Up Front For Rooftop Solar?
Post date:The Rocky Mountain Institute suggests a way that solar companies might entice homeowners to go solar: give them a whole lot of cash up front.
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CaISO
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New Solar Records in California This Week
Post date:California just broke another solar power record this week: for the first time in its history, more than 2,500 megawatts of electricity from the sun flowed into the state's power distribution grid. And that's not even counting juice from small rooftop ...
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Photovoltaic
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California Now Has More Than 150,000 Solar Roofs
Post date:As of this week, California has at least 150,428 rooftops generating electricity, and probably a lot more than that.
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Photovoltaic
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Another CA City Bans Construction of Buildings Without Solar Panels
Post date:We've got a conservative Southern California city and a liberal Northern California city both now mandating rooftop solar on new construction. Who's next?
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solar
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Smartphone App + Door-to-Door Sales = New Rooftop Solar Biz Model
Post date:A new startup has big plans to connect solar installers with rooftop owners using a resource that's almost as inexhaustible as the sun: cheap student labor.
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CaISO
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Solar Record in Germany Dwarfs Solar Record in Sunny California
Post date:Germany and California set solar records this week, but it hardly seems fair to Germany to mention California's milestone in the same breath.