10 Hacks For An Instantly Greener Home

From fixing leaks and buying locally produced food to choosing a cleaner energy supplier, these little changes will go a long way to making your household more sustainable – and save money too. Some of these are things your parents shouted at you for decades ago, others hadn’t been invented yet, but all of them […]

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California to Become First U.S. State Mandating Solar On New Homes

By: Jeff Collins For seven years, a handful of homebuilders offered solar as an optional item to buyers willing to pay extra to go green. Now, California is on the verge of making solar standard on virtually every new home built in the Golden State. The California Energy Commission is scheduled to vote Wednesday, May […]

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Solar Panels on Sturgis Plaza to Power City Building

By: Deb Holland STURGIS — A new shade structure being installed at the Sturgis Harley-Davidson Rally Point will help power the city’s library. The 40-watt solar canopy should be operational by mid-June, City Engineer Liz Wunderlich said, explaining that a conduit to harness the energy has been built into one of the columns that will […]

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Musk Hints at 1 GW Battery as Tesla Solar Power Installations Fall Further

The company’s energy generation and storage division set a record of $410 million in revenue during Q1, but solar power fell to 2013 deployment levels. By: John Weaver Tesla has continued to grow its energy storage business, but is also seeing a continued slide in slow solar power deployments per its First Quarter 2018 update. The company […]

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The World’s Top Wind Turbine Can Power Your Home In One Spin

When completed this summer, the record-breaking wind farm will be able to generate more than 70 per cent of Aberdeen’s domestic electricity demand By: Phoebe Braithwaite Wind turbines are getting bigger. Last week, the world’s most powerful wind turbine rose out of the sea off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland. It’s the first of eleven […]

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