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Vintners bottle sunshine with solar powered harvest
- San Diego Union Tribune (new window)
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9/26/2007 |
| Clusters of harvest-ready grapes, pendulous and purple, dangle among deep green leaves at Frog's Leap winery, waiting to become Napa Valley wine. But a few rows over is a plant of a different kind – an array of square-faced solar panels that provide the power to keep operations humming. Winemakers in Napa and elsewhere are bottling sunshine in more ways than one this year. | |
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Solar Homes Defy a Cool Housing Market
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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8/25/2007 |
| With foreclosures rising and home prices diving, there is a bright spot in California's residential real estate market: Solar-powered homes are starting to outsell traditionally electrified new homes in several markets, and developers are stepping up their use of the technology. | |
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Assembly Member Saldana lends support to Solar Hot Water Initiative
- California Chronicle (new window)
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8/22/2007 |
| Leaders of California’s solar industry, along with legislators, environmental and educational groups, gathered at the State Capitol Tuesday to harness the power of the sun. As temperatures reached near 100 degrees, solar companies demonstrated how highly efficient solar water heaters can capture energy from the sun to make cold water hot, dramatically reducing dependence on fossil fuels, cutting air pollution and lowering energy bills. | |
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Old is new again for heating water
- Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA)
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8/15/2007 |
| Rooftop systems would help reduce California's dependence on fossil fuels. Can reaching back into the past help ensure our planet's future? A growing number of supporters of AB 1470 - the solar water heater incentive bill - seem to think so. | |
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Clean Energy Advocate Bernadette Del Chiaro discussing Clean Energy Legislation (Clip 1)
- News-Talk 1530 KFBK (mp3) (new window)
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8/1/2007 |
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Clean Energy Advocate Bernadette Del Chiaro discussing Clean Energy Legislation (Clip 2)
- News-Talk 1530 KFBK (mp3) (new window)
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8/1/2007 |
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Schwarzenegger, Hedge Funds Invest in California Solar Power
- Bloomberg News (new window)
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7/7/2006 |
| With the flip of a ceremonial switch, Microsoft Corp. dedicated a half-acre of solar panels on its Silicon Valley campus, bringing California closer to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's goal of a million solar roofs. | |
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Let the sun shine on
- The Fresno Bee
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7/31/2006 |
| In the past three years, Brown estimates his business has grown 400%, for a very simple reason — while electricity keeps getting more expensive, installing photovoltaic solar power systems in California has never been cheaper. | |
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Even in energy-efficient world, devices' drain powerful
- San Diego Union-Tribune (new window)
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7/25/2006 |
| Sure, there are a few million more people in California than there were during the last big electricity crunch in 2001. But that's not the only reason for the power consumption records set in recent days. | |
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Warming up to solar: Bill on water heaters deserves passage
- Sacramento Bee
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7/2/2007 |
| Anyone who has visited Hawaii with any frequency has probably taken a shower with water warmed by a solar-powered water heater. Because of its combination of plentiful sunshine and high energy prices, Hawaii promotes and subsidizes this clean form of water heating more than any other state. | |
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Senate should pass solar bill
- Fresno Bee
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7/2/2007 |
| Anyone who has visited Hawaii with any frequency has probably taken a shower with water warmed by a solar-powered water heater. Because of its combination of plentiful sunshine and high energy prices, Hawaii promotes and subsidizes this clean form of water heating more than any other state. | |
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Editorial - Solar power makes sense
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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6/15/2007 |
| If there's one natural resource that California has in abundance, it's sunshine. Yet it's astonishing how few residents take advantage of this free, nonpolluting energy source. Last year, only 1,000 solar water heaters were installed in the entire state. A sensible Assembly bill could make solar power more attractive while discouraging consumption of carbon-emitting natural gas, but it first has to get through the state Senate. | |
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Renewable energy spells economic security
- The Desert Sun (new window)
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6/14/2007 |
| Concerns about dependence on foreign sources of oil, along with the environmental impacts of fossil fuel usage, have encouraged many nations from Germany to Japan to dramatically ramp up their production of renewable energy. These countries are not only securing their energy independence but also are building modern clean energy economies and creating new high-tech jobs for their citizens. | |
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Solar product means benefits for Chico
- Chico Enterprise Record (new window)
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6/10/2007 |
| More jobs and more money through payroll checks will be among the benefits for Chico if homebuilders and do-it-yourselfers fully embrace a solar water heating product under production by local manufacturer FAFCO. | |
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Rebate rule chills sales of solar
- Los Angeles Times
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5/8/2007 |
| California homeowners are rejecting new rebates for solar power equipment, saying the state has made installing the rooftop panels far more costly than expected. | |
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Bill heats up talk of solar water systems
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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5/29/2007 |
| At first glance, the ranch-style stucco house on a quiet Encino street looks no different from its neighbors. A manicured lawn. A bottlebrush tree. Two cars in the driveway. You couldn't tell, unless you climbed a ladder or glanced into the utility shed, that Richard and Barbara Braun's home is a foot soldier in the war against global warming. | |
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Edison agrees to huge wind power deal
- Los Angeles Times
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12/22/2006 |
| Placing a big bet on the wind, Southern California Edison Co. said Thursday that it would buy the power produced by a massive Tehachapi energy project that would dwarf the nation's largest such operations. | |
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| 11/1/2006 | |
| Be sure to catch Environment California on Huell Howser's California Green Show throughout the month. See your local PBS station for times or view list below. | |
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Environmental bills' fate in governor's hands
- San Jose Mercury News (new window)
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10/8/2007 |
| Environmentalists and industry officials alike are waiting for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to act this week on a stack of environmental bills that would do everything from requiring "green" building standards on new construction to banning potentially hazardous chemicals in children's toys. | |
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Rebates for solar water heaters signed by governor
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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10/13/2007 |
| California's effort to draw more of its power from the sun took a new direction Friday when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation to spend $250 million over the next 10 years on rebates for solar water heaters. | |
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Renewable energy gains still far off, reports show
- LA Times (new window)
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1/21/2007 |
| California's utilities are falling behind schedule in meeting a deadline that 20% of their electricity must come from renewable resources by 2010, newly issued reports from two energy agencies show. | |
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Regulatory Agency is Set to Approve Solar Incentive Program - Audio News Report
- 89.3 KPCC (new window)
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1/12/2006 |
| The California Public Utilities Commission is expected to approve a program that would give refunds to homes and businesses that install solar panels. | |
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