Energy Department Launches SunShot Prize Competition to Install Solar Energy Systems at a Fraction of Today’s Price

WASHINGTON — As part of the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative, which is working to make solar energy competitive with other forms of energy without subsidy by the end of the decade, the Energy Department today announced the start of a new competition to make it faster, easier, and cheaper to install rooftop solar energy systems. [...]

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Rooftop Solar Challenge Receives $12 Million in Funding

Washington, D.C. – As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative, today Energy Secretary Steven Chu was joined by Lynn Jurich, the president and co-founder of the solar power company SunRun, and Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman to announce $12 million in funding for the awardees of the Rooftop Solar Challenge. The Challenge [...]

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Carbon Disclosure Project Calls for Co-ordinated Action on Climate Change

With companies making up 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions and more than half the world’s population living in cities (and this is expected the increase over time), international policy and successful action on climate change will need to involve companies, investors and local governments if it is going to be effective. The 17th Conference [...]

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New Report Maps How Clean Energy Can Help Stop Global Warming While Creating Jobs

Bay Area Solar Companies Lead Nation in Job Growth, Fighting Global Warming: San Francisco – Environmental groups, clean energy experts and local businesses gathered today to release a report that maps out how clean energy solutions can make a dramatic difference in the fight against a warming planet as well as the struggle to revive [...]

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New Mexico Roadrunner Solar Energy Facility to be One of the States Largest

NRG Energy, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, NRG Solar, will break ground by year end on the Company’s first generation site in New Mexico, the Roadrunner Solar Electric Facility, a 20 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic solar project. Power from the facility will be sold to El Paso Electric Co., under a 20-year power purchase agreement. [...]

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