Here the Real Reason Solar Companies Love California | It’s Not Because of the Weather
By MICHAEL BASTASCH | Contributor The solar industry cheered the California state assembly’s passage of a bill to mandate 100 percent “carbon-free” electricity by 2045, calling it “groundbreaking legislation.” “As we await final confirmation in the Senate, this bill will lead to significant investment and jobs creation in California, and elsewhere in America,” Abigail Ross […]
What Natural Disasters SHOULD Teach Us
by Steven Lyazi I express my deepest sympathies to the people in the Caribbean and United States who have been impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. The loss of life was tragic but has thankfully been much lower than in many previous storms. Buildings are stronger, people get warned in […]
Yet another renewable energy boondoggle
. By Paul Driessen Croplands, habitats, taxes, family budgets, safety sacrificed to enrich politically connected few? Wilkinson Solar has filed papers requesting permits for a 74-megawatt solar electricity facility about 35 miles east of Greenville, NC. If approved, 288,120 solar panels would blanket 600 acres (0.94 square miles) of now scenic, serene farmland next door to […]
Solar Eclipse in Ventura County – Photos
Though we didn’t get a view of the full eclipse in Ventura County we did get a shift in light, an almost ethereal dimming in illumination. An inventive young gentleman in Somis, he turns eleven in October, sent us photos of the eclipse. Christiano Amodei used a combination of NASA approved glasses and a power […]
County of Ventura approves agreement to purchase solar-generated electricity
On April 18, 2017, the County of Ventura Board of Supervisors approved a groundbreaking Energy Services Agreement between the County and Ventura Solar, LLC. The agreement, which will be administered by the General Services Agency (GSA), will enable the County to purchase electricity generated from a planned 3-megawatt photovoltaic system to be installed in the […]
Proposed bill would mandate 100 percent renewable energy in California
By James Poulos Joining a would-be trend that includes lawmakers in deep blue Massachusetts, Senate majority leader Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, has unveiled a new proposal that could become California Democrats’ answer to the limits of cap-and-trade. “The California Senate leader has introduced legislation that would require the Golden State to get 100 percent of its electricity from […]
Santa Paula: Could Stored Solar Generated Power be in the Future?
By Sheryl Hamlin Subsequent to grid disruptions caused by the massive leak of the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage tank, Cal ISO (grid operator) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) held a joint action study on how to satisfy the energy needs of the state and how to mitigate vulnerability to outages, according to […]
Ecological double standards
By Paul Driessen Why can locals block fracking, but not support it … get wind turbines, but not block them? Donald Trump recently said he supports giving local communities control over hydraulic fracturing. “If some areas don’t want” fracking, the decision should be “up to them,” he commented. Trump supports this proven and safe technology to […]
SunPower at Ventura Eco Fest – Saturday 4/23
In celebration of Earth Day and to support the continued adoption of clean, renewable solar energy, SunPower will debut its new traveling Solar Design Studio at the Ventura Earth Day Eco Fest from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, April 23 along the city’s oceanfront boardwalk between Promenade Park and Surfer’s Point. Home solar panels […]
