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EVs: huge in Costa Rica: solarnoon.net

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Solar's continued US growth: solarnoon.net

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Floating solar: an end-run around NIMBYism: solarnoon.net

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Trump can't stop renewable energy: solarnoon.net

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DeSantis' Florida is anti-tree-planting, for some jackass reason: solarnoon.net

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Energy expert says oil is over: solarnoon.net

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We have to stop burning stuff for power: solarnoon.net

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Data-centers aren't a reason to use more fossil fuels: solarnoon.net

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Innovative solar program in Austin: solarnoon.net

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Britain sets solar record (twice): solarnoon.net

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Polling shows anti-clean-energy BS is working: solarnoon.net

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One Black community bearing the brunt of Trump's oil wars: solarnoon.net

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San Francisco getting huge new battery: solarnoon.net

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Could MAGA come around on renewables? solarnoon.net

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Canary Media: Sky-high oil prices are about to hit Puerto Rico’s grid.

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“In the continental U.S., no one’s burning a significant quantity of oil to generate electricity,” said Cathy Kunkel, an energy consultant at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. But that’s not the case in Puerto Rico, where oil-fired plants make up about 60% of generating capacity. The island ​“just has a lot of old oil-fired power plants that were constructed in the ​’60s and ​’70s, when oil was obviously a lot cheaper.”

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Island nations like Puerto Rico really highlight the costs of having to import fossil...

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This is cool & clever, and reduces some workforce stress as we transition away from fossil fuels: The future of geothermal energy may depend on fossil fuel workers

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[Sage Geosystems cofounder Cindy Taff] sees a broad range of fossil fuel workers, from drillers to geologists, who will fit right into the renewables sector, arguing that the same industry that evolved from simple land wells to offshore operations in water thousands of feet deep has a vast pool of technical expertise.

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Virginia, showing how to do it: solarnoon.net

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Today in idiotic and self-defeating moves that increase energy prices by undermining clean energy projects: Trump is paying nearly $1 billion to stop offshore wind projects

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The Hill: Reconciliation bill subsidizes fossil fuels by $3.5B each year, Democratic report finds

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The report only looks at provisions that specifically help the fossil fuel industry and does not include general corporate tax cuts that are likely to bolster those firms as well as others

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The Guardian, with some cool pictures and full shade: Donald Trump insists there are no wind farms in China. Here are 20 of them – in pictures

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The US president has made the easily debunked claim that there are no wind farms in China

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European nations reinforce wind power commitment with 100 GW pledge

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“We are standing up for our national interest by driving for clean energy, which can get the UK off the fossil fuel rollercoaster and give us energy sovereignty and abundance,” said British energy minister Ed Miliband

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The Trump Energy Crisis \"An\"Photo : solarnoon.net

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In case someone else says this dumb thing to you: Trump says the big US winter storm is proof of climate hoax – here’s why he’s wrong

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scientists point out that a single winter storm… tells us very little about longer-term, global climate trends. …The world [is] undeniably heating up

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Case in point on my agrivoltaics post the other day: Solar grazing: ‘triple-win’ for sheep farmers, renewables

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a growing number of farmers are discovering the free grazing opportunities offered by some solar panel sites are a toe-hold in an industry where land is often unaffordable/unobtainable

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Agrivoltaics - Win-Win-Win, So Many Wins \"Photo\"A : solarnoon.net

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