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Incentives to rise for home solar arrays
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2010-02-26 |
| A new law will double the cap on how much energy customers can sell back to utilities. | |
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Obama To Propose Tripling Of Nuclear Loan Guarantees
- Wall Street Journal (new window)
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2010-01-29 |
| The Obama administration is planning to propose tripling a program that provides loan guarantees to construct nuclear reactors. | |
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Cheap Hot Water? Just Add Sunshine
- Wall Street Journal (new window)
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2010-01-28 |
| Bill Banack doesn't fancy himself an environmental "fanatic," but his showers, dishwasher and washing machine all use renewable energy these days. The source: three slim solar panels perched atop his 2,200-square foot Hadley, Mass., home. They don't provide electricity—they send him heat for hot water. | |
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Rebates for solar water heaters approved
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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2010-01-22 |
| For three years, California has offered homeowners financial incentives to install solar panels that generate electricity. Now, solar water heaters will get their moment in the sun. | |
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Solar water heaters get a $350-million boost in California
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2010-01-22 |
| California regulators approved a $350-million rebate offer today to encourage homes and businesses to install water-heating systems powered by solar energy. | |
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California to Subsidize Solar Water Heaters
- The New York Times (new window)
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2010-01-22 |
| California regulators on Thursday approved a $350 million program to subsidize the installation of solar water heaters to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | |
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Sonoma Receives Solar Award
- Sonoma Index Tribune (new window)
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2009-12-23 |
| Environment California awarded Mayor Ken Brown and the City of Sonoma with a "2009 Solar Champion" award during the Dec. 16 City Council meeting. The award was given to Sonoma for having one of the largest concentrations of solar power in the state. | |
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Going solar at cut-rate cost
- Los Angeles Daily News (new window)
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2009-12-13 |
| In the San Fernando Valley, homeowners like Dickinson and his wife, Sara, a jewelry designer, have become the unwitting faces of the solar energy movement - residents who didn't set out to be green activists but for whom going green makes sense now more than ever. | |
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State Energy Commission to vote on TV power standards
- Sacramento Bee (new window)
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2009-11-04 |
| State energy officials are nearing a decision on a ban on new energy-hogging televisions. | |
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Green screens may be future
- Stockton Record (new window)
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2009-11-04 |
| Californians are nearly outnumbered by their televisions. Thirty-five million sets entertain us five hours a day. Add the numbers up, and TVs probably account for a large portion of your household energy use - up to 10 percent, including accessories such as DVD players, game consoles and digital recorders | |
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Consumers Pay the Price
- The New York Times (new window)
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2009-10-16 |
| As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill on Sunday requiring utilities to buy back renewable energy from private producers at above-market prices, environmental groups and renewable-energy companies prepared for the fight over where the new price will be set. | |
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Talking green but working against it
- New Times SLO (new window)
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2009-10-14 |
| PG&E opposed a bill the governor recently signed into law that could make home solar power more affordable | |
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Governor signs bills that boost solar power
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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2009-10-13 |
| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed several bills Sunday that will tweak the way California's electricity market works, encouraging solar power and phasing out some rules created during the state's electricity crisis. | |
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State's new solar panel laws add incentives for rooftop system owners to save
- Riverside Press Enterprise (new window)
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2009-10-13 |
| Solar power got a boost over the weekend when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed bills that require investor-owned utilities like Southern California Edison to buy surplus solar electricity generated by homes, small businesses and by warehouses whose sun-baked roofs could be transformed into solar power plants. | |
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Governor signs bills that boost solar power
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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2009-10-13 |
| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed several bills Sunday that will tweak the way California's electricity market works, encouraging solar power and phasing out some rules created during the state's electricity crisis. | |
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Schwarzenegger signs 2 renewable energy bills, vetos others
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2009-10-12 |
| California will require utilities to pay consumers for generating more solar and wind power than they use and will boost the payoff for certain solar facilities. The laws take effect Jan 1. | |
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Governor to veto energy plan, implement his own
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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2009-09-15 |
| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will veto a renewable energy standard passed Saturday by the Legislature and instead will launch, by executive order today, his own plan to require utilities to get a third of their energy from renewable sources, administration officials said Monday. | |
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Legislators pass renewable energy bills
- Glendale News Press (new window)
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2009-09-14 |
| Landmark legislation aimed at boosting renewable energy production within California was approved by the Legislature during the weekend but is destined for a veto, said a spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. | |
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Schwarzenegger to veto renewable energy bills
- The Associated Press (new window)
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2009-09-12 |
| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office said Saturday that he would veto legislation requiring a third of California's energy to come from renewable sources by 2020, choosing instead to mandate the change through an executive order. | |
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The Whirlwind Tour: Windmills in California
- Wandermelon.com (new window)
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2009-09-01 |
| Environment California is pushing for giant leaps in the renewable clean energy movement in California. | |
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Utilities, groups at odds over sources for renewable energy
- The Sacramento Bee (new window)
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2009-08-24 |
| California's electric utilities have accepted that they'll be required to get a third of their power from renewable sources by 2020. Now, they are battling environmental and labor groups over where it's going to come from. | |
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Sacramento's power failure
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2009-08-19 |
| Two years ago, a bill that would have required California to get more power from clean, renewable sources such as the sun and wind stalled in the Legislature. | |
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Fresno Shines on Solar Energy Lists
- The Fresno Bee (new window)
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2009-07-26 |
| FRESNO'S HOT SUN -- and the cost of cooling everything it bakes -- has catapulted the city onto Top-10 lists for solar projects. | |
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With Push Toward Renewable Energy, California Sets Pace for Solar Power
- New York Times (new window)
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2009-07-16 |
| A decade ago, only 500 rooftops in California boasted solar panels that harvest the sun’s energy. Today, there are nearly 50,000 solar-panel installations in the state, according to a report to be issued Thursday by the research and lobbying group Environment California. | |
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Solar foothold reaches beyond Santa Cruz to more conservative regions
- San Jose Mercury News (new window)
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2009-07-12 |
| Solar panels have long been the domain of eco-conscious communities like Santa Cruz and Berkeley. Not anymore. A new report on solar energy suggests California's more traditional, inland regions have jumped on the bandwagon and in some cases out-greened their coastal counterparts. | |
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Solar foothold reaches beyond Santa Cruz to more conservative regions
- San Jose Mercury News (new window)
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2009-07-12 |
| Solar panels have long been the domain of eco-conscious communities like Santa Cruz and Berkeley. Not anymore. A new report on solar energy suggests California's more traditional, inland regions have jumped on the bandwagon and in some cases out-greened their coastal counterparts. | |
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Aerojet’s solar makeover
- Sacramento News & Review (new window)
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2009-07-09 |
| Aerojet, the local defense-industry contractor with a famously toxic past, plans to convert 20 acres of its Superfund cleanup land into a superclean electricity-producing solar field this fall. | |
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S.F. solar power rebate use quadruples in 2008
- San Francisco Chronicle (new window)
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2009-07-08 |
| "From foggy town to solar city, San Francisco is making it happen," said Dan Jacobson, legislative director of Environment California. He said that despite the city's often gray weather, there's plenty of sun to power the panels. Germany and Japan, he said, have far less sunshine than California but are world leaders in solar power. | |
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Report calls for fossil fuel reductions
- Central Coast, Mercury News (new window)
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2009-07-01 |
| The state will spend $2.9 trillion on oil, coal and other fossil fuels by 2030 states the report, titled "The High Cost of Fossil Fuels: Why America Can't Afford to Depend on Dirty Energy." | |
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California's fossil fuel use slated to grow
- Los Angeles Times (new window)
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2009-06-30 |
| California will spend up to $2,911.1 billion on fossil fuels such as oil and coal between 2010 and 2030, according to a new study released Tuesday by the advocacy group Environment California. | |
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