Via CBRE, a new report examining solar opportunities in US industrial real estate: While annual U.S. commercial solar installations slowed in the past two years due to pandemic-related disruption in the supply chain, the industry is projected to rebound in the coming years. It is estimated that only around 5% of the market for commercial […]
Read more »Via Bakersfield’s TurnTo23, a report on a recent decision to install solar panels at a Kentucky Fried Chicken location in Northwest Bakersfield: A local Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant has updated its drive-through with solar panels. The restaurant, located at the corner of Rosedale Highway and Old Farm Road, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on […]
Read more »Via Business Insider, a report on New York’s JFK airport’s new terminal, which will be powered by a microgrid and the largest rooftop solar array in New York City: A new terminal at New York’s JFK will be partly powered by a microgrid, batteries, and fuel cells. AlphaStruxure, the project developer, said that would produce […]
Read more »Via the High Country News, an infographic on the solar power potential of parking lots and big-box roofs: On a sunny day in early December, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland stood on a dais outside the Phoenix exurb of Buckeye, Arizona, where about 3,000 acres of desert had been scraped clean and leveled to make way for […]
Read more »Via WIRED, an article on France’s plan to cover swaths of asphalt with photovoltaics to bring renewable energy even closer to urban areas where it’s needed. Are rooftops next? A BACKLASH AGAINST industrial-size solar farms is brewing. At least 75 big solar projects were vetoed across the United States last year, compared to 19 in 2021. And between January 2021 and […]
Read more »Via China Water Risk, an introduction to a unique company and product: i2Cool which aims to promote a novel energy-free and environmentally friendly passive radiative cooling paint to save energy and assist in decarbonization: CWR: Thank you Martin for chatting with us. The 2022 summer hit record-breaking temperatures and Hong Kong was not exempt from high temperatures. Could […]
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