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Google’s Project Sunroof
Via Business Insider, a report on an interesting new initiative from Google: You can now “Google your roof.” To encourage more people equip their homes with solar panels, the company just launched a...
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Solar Financing: Moving From Leases To Loans
Via UtilityDive, an interesting look at the trend towards loans with projections that, by 2020, the rooftop solar market will be $10 billion and half may be owned through loans: The U.S. residential...
View ArticleYeloha: Uber Of Rooftops?
Via Solar Love, a look at an interesting concept termed “uber of rooftops”: The peer-to-peer sharing economy is simply a function of the marriage between GPS and smartphone technology. Got a car and...
View ArticleTake My Solar Panel, Please!
Via Slate, an article on an interesting San Antonio’s new business model for renewable energy: The business model surrounding rooftop solar has changed dramatically in the past decade. Several years...
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The Largest Green Roof In The World
Via Fast Company, a look at the world’s largest green roof project in the world: Vallco Shopping Mall, in the heart of suburban Silicon Valley, is a classic example of the dying shopping center. Half...
View ArticleSolar Suburbs: Future Is Now
Via Yale’s e360, an interesting look at how advances in technology, combined with smart policy, could drive a clean-energy revolution in the suburbs: Imagine a truly green suburb, one in which...
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World’s Largest Organic Rooftop Farm Powered 100% By Renewables Opens In Chicago
Via EcoWatch, an article on the world’s largest organic rooftop farm: Brooklyn-based urban farming company Gotham Greens opened the world’s largest rooftop farm in Chicago, the company announced...
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Rooftop Solar Power To Be Mandatory In Dubai By 2030
Via Clean Technica, a report on Dubai’s recent decision to make rooftop solar power mandatory by 2030: The political leader of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, recently announced the Dubai Clean...
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Wind Power Spreads Through Turbines for Lease
Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting article on the ongoing evolution of wind power: Three years ago, Ed Doody and his brothers, Kevin and Rich, installed a wind turbine at the dairy farm...
View ArticleCool Roofs In China
Via Energy Daily, a report on the impact of cool roofs in China: It is well established that white roofs can help mitigate the urban heat island effect, reflecting the sun’s energy back into space and...
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MIT Tool Gives Cost Of Installing Solar Panels On Any Roof In Your City
Via Motherboard, a report on an interesting tool developed by MIT: The world, it seems, is falling in love with solar energy. Recent years have seen the increasing adoption of solar power around the...
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Shared Solar
Via Vox, a look at the promise of shared solar: To date, solar power has mostly been available to utilities (as big power plants) or individual home and business owners (as rooftop panels). Left out...
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San Francisco’s New Rooftop Law
Via Clean Technica, a report on San Francisco’s new rooftop solar law: The City of San Francisco has just become the first major US city to require new buildings to be constructed with solar panels or...
View ArticleElon Musk Envisions Solar Roofs Powering Homes
Via NBC News, a report on Elon Musk’s vision for rooftops: If Elon Musk has his way, a roof entirely made of solar-gathering materials could one day be used to power homes. Musk, who is chairman of the...
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The $65 Billion Solar Rooftop Titan
Courtesy of GreenBiz, a report on Prologis, a $65 billion real estate investment trust that controls 149 megawatts of solar generating capacity atop its global portfolio of warehouses and industrial...
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Solar Rooftop Revolution Fizzles in U.S. on Utility Pushback
Via Bloomberg, commentary on the slowing growth of rooftop solar in the United States: Rooftop solar, which has surged more than 1,000 percent since 2010, will barely grow at all next year. Residential...
View ArticleElon Musk: Your Home’s Roof Is the Future of Energy
Via Mens Journal, a report on Elon Musk’s vision of the future of solar: Elon Musk is convinced that humanity won’t need to make use of his SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets to flee this warming planet if we...
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Tel Aviv’s Rooftop Farm Grows Fresh Food For Thousands
Via TreeHugger.com, an interesting look at a productive rooftop farm in Israel: The Dizengoff Center is a vast shopping mall in central Tel Aviv, Israel. Built in the 1970s, the towering concrete...
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Bermuda’s Iconic White Roofs Help Island Overcome Chronic Freshwater Shortage
Courtesy of the BBC, a report on how Bermuda’s iconic white roofs overcome island’s chronic freshwater shortage: The North Atlantic island of Bermuda has no fresh-water springs, rivers or lakes. So how...
View ArticleHow Real Estate Developers Can Profit From Solar
Via GreenBiz, an article on how real estate developers can profit from solar: After dramatic decreases in the cost of panels, solar photovoltaic (PV) systems generate electricity at costs below utility...
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