Minnesota’s community solar program hit 613 megawatts in September 2019, enough to power more than 100,000 homes each year or about half as much capacity as a typical nuclear power plant!… Read More
Residents of Shutesbury, Mass., are now receiving fast affordable, reliable connectivity in their homes and businesses delivered via their publicly owned broadband infrastructure.… Read More
In Southern Florida, utilities relax after escaping the brunt of Hurricane Dorian’s destruction. Other areas, like Abaco and Grand Bahama Islands, were not so lucky. The growing threat of large storms poses a question for coastal communities: what kind of energy system will be most resilient? Although it wasn’t tested by this most recent storm, our podcast guest has been pushing for distributed energy systems to build resiliency for his Florida community.
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, we reach into the archive to a conversation between host John Farrell and South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard. In the episode, published April of 2018, the two discuss combatting monopoly utility power through local efforts to implement solar in South Miami. Since the episode, many of Mayor Stoddard’s endeavors have produced results. In March, Stoddard showed that energy independence was possible by taking his home off the grid and running on his own solar and battery storage for seven days. Then, in May, the City Commission made a commitment to 100% renewable energy by 2040. … Read More
The European Union has taken another step away from garbage incineration. … Read More
Cities in California will be encouraged to consider implementing dual stream recycling under new law AB 815 singed into law by Governor Newsom as an effort to reduce contamination and help market materials within the US.… Read More
Before making the decision to put solar on a rooftop, one must know how many years of sunshine it will take to earn back the initial investment in the panels. To estimate this and the overall savings, solar developers predict how much electricity the system will produce and how much the cost of electricity will increase over the years. Just how accurate are developer predictions of rooftop solar savings and the system payback period? … Read More
Host Chris Mitchell is joined by Kim Haddow for a robust conversation on preemption and Kim’s efforts to get power back into the hands of local decision makers.… Read More
View the recording of our webinar with Dr. Sally Brown of the University of Washington, where she discusses how compost avoids methane emissions and sequesters carbon in soil. … Read More
In August federal Bills on plastic pollution and Zero Waste were put forward in Congress by Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Representative Alan Lowenthall (D-Calif.) and Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).… Read More
