Cash Incentives for Solar Energy in California
| Energy companies battle one another on climate bill. As the Senate prepares to tackle global warming, the nations energy producers, once united, are battling one another over policy decisions worth hundreds of billions of dollars in coming decades. |
| El Niño to Help Steer U.S. Winter Weather NOAA released a study this week projecting United States winter weather for the coming winter season. Using forecast E Niño conditions, the study predicts temperature and precipitation trends for the mainland US and Hawaii. |
| The Superb Grid vs. the SuperGrid Please see the article by Sam Carana on how a larger and simultaneously more local grid can be implemented, to capture as much of the electricity being generated as possible. Read about how many parts of Europe already have surplus electricity and countries are linking their grids together toimprove efficiency.  |
| World has less than five years to stop uncontrollable climate change. The WWF has warned of an urgent need for a “green industrial revolution” by 2014, with heavy investment in moving from fossil fuels to ‘low carbon alternatives’ like wind, solar, nuclear and clean coal. |
| Dell, HP Cut PC Power Consumption 2010 For both laptop and desktop computers, Dell plans to cut power consumption as part of its required work on compliance with the EPA’s EnergyStar 5.0 standard, reports Mark Hachman of pcmag.com. HP earlier said it would cut power use of “volume” PCs by 25 percent, relative to 2005. In those terms, Dell’s reductions would be [.]  |
Cash Incentives for Solar Energy in California It seems the California Governor is making an all-out effort to encourage people to switch over the renewable source of energy. Assembly Bill 920, authored by Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-Marin, and signed by the governor of California, requires utilities to pay solar customers who produce more energy than they use.Currently homeowners that produce more [.]Posted in: Industry, Politics, Solar Power |