Renewable Energy
The technology powering a lower-carbon, renewable electricity grid.
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Six Flags Solar Carport Keeps Your Car From Becoming an Oven
A parking lot just offset an entire theme park’s power bill. Here’s why your car, and the planet, come out ahead too.
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Your Tesla Can Now Replace a $10,000 Backup Generator
A whole-house generator can run $15,000. Tesla just gave thousands of EV owners the same backup power for the price of a phone call.
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Owatonna’s New Solar Garden Doesn’t Care If You Own a Roof
More than 10,000 solar panels now feed an electric bill credit straight to Owatonna mailboxes, no rooftop required. Here is who qualifies and what it is actually worth.
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MANNA FoodBank’s New Solar Roof Is Already Buying Groceries
What happens when a food bank’s own power bill shrinks by tens of thousands of dollars a year? For 220,000 people in western North Carolina, it means a lot more groceries.
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Canada’s New Heat Pump Rebate Could Save You $1,400 a Year
$10,000 toward a new heat pump, approved in a day, no energy audit required: here’s what Canada’s rebate actually covers.
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Spain’s New Solar Farm Is Also a Jobs Program and a Wildfire Shield
Can a solar farm double as a wildfire shield and a jobs program? Lorca’s new 368-megawatt plant in Spain is trying to prove it can do both at once.
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Free Daytime Electricity Hits 4,000 SoCal Homes
What if the smartest time to run your dishwasher wasn’t at night, but right after lunch? A two-year Southern California experiment is putting real money behind the answer.
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DeKalb’s Airport Solar Farm Is Already Paying Renters’ Power Bills
An airport runway’s spare acres are now quietly paying down the power bills of more than a thousand Illinois households, most of them low or moderate income. Here’s how a deal like this works, and what it could put back in your pocket.
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New York’s New Meter Socket Adapter Could Save Solar Buyers Thousands
What if the biggest obstacle to going solar wasn’t the panels, but a decades-old metal box inside your house? New York just found a $600 fix for it.
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Australia’s Home Battery Boom Cuts Bills by $2,300
A $4,000 rebate, a battery that often pays for itself within a decade, and three in four installs going to regional and outer-suburban homes: here’s what the numbers mean for your own power bill.