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Ipsun Solar, a premier solar installer in Northern Virginia, has brought on Alan S. Larsen as senior adviser for governmental and legal affairs. Among his initial endeavors, Larsen will coordinate the company’s effort to advocate for improved solar policy in Virginia. Alan S. Larsen — new senior adviser for governmental and legal affairs at Ipsun […]
Risen Energy Australia says its 132MW Merredin Solar Farm project in Western Australia should be connected to the grid next month. Construction of the clean power station commenced at a site a few kilometres from the town of Merredin in WA’s central wheatbelt in March last year. By early November 2019, 46,563 steel post foundations […]
Greenskies Renewable Energy, a developer of commercial and industrial solar power facilities, has successfully completed a transaction that brings JLC Infrastructure in to accelerate the platform’s expansion in the high-growth C&I and municipal sectors. As part of the transaction, JLC formed Greenskies Clean Energy to acquire substantially all of Greenskies Renewable Energy’s assets and employees. […]
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) says AGL Macquarie has entered into an Enforceable Undertaking that will see it coughing up $100,000 after another breach of regulations concerning the management of coal ash. The EPA states back in early 2019, AGL Macquarie self-reported it used the wrong sampling methodology for coal ash at its Bayswater […]
Out of the ashes of the Ventura County, Calif., fires, new life comes from Dvele, the modern prefab smart home producer. Dvele employs a holistic building science practice that considers physics, biology and chemistry to ensure that its homes exceed third-party certifications for quality, health, and efficiency. The homes Dvele produces with its modular platform can […]
Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has acted as technical advisor to the Finnish renewable energy developer, Taaleri Energia, in a deal that sees funds managed by Taaleri Group divest part of their wind farm investment portfolio by selling their shares in the Nyby and Myllykangas wind farms to a consortium of […]
Source: Tim Forster, “Trump’s Labor Department Just Made It Harder for Fast Food Workers to Sue Corporations,” eater.com, Apr. 2, 2019 Raising the minimum wage $1 was linked to a 3.4% to 5.9% decrease in suicide rates among adults age 18-64 with a high school education or less, according to a Jan. 3, 2020 report […]
Residential solar loan provider Loanpal announced it has expanded its partnership with Goldman Sachs to finance an additional $200 million in residential solar loans, bringing their total financing commitments to $635 million. Additionally, the partnership will now allow Loanpal to finance hundreds of new products for homeowners that make up the $200+ billion annual home […]
McElroy Metal Manufacturing Facility, Clinton, Ill. Photo courtesy of McElroy Metal. Metal roof attachment provider S-5! recently worked on a complex solar conversion project at a manufacturing facility in Clinton, Illinois. This large-scale, multi-faceted project at the McElroy Metal plant required a two-fold approach as the facility consisted of two different metal roof types: a […]
The government’s current energy policies have led to a sharp decline in the number of new onshore windfarms, raising fears that the UK may fall short of the renewable energy it needs to generate to meet its climate targets. Industry data shows the rollout of new onshore windfarms fell dramatically after the government scrapped subsidy […]
