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Look out Putin — Ukrainian woman invents ‘solar for balconies’ to wean Europe off Russian gas | TechCrunch

SustainableSA.com Posted on July 18, 2022 by stlaneJuly 18, 2022

Much has been made of how European countries are, on the one hand, supporting Ukraine in its fight against the heinous and illegal invasion by Russia but at the same time remaining heavily dependent on Russian energy sources. WeDoSolar, launched … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Carbon, Climate Change, Cool Tech, Doing Something, New Tech, Renewable Energy, Residential Building, Resilience, Smart Growth, Solar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Total Cost of Energy | Leave a reply

Texas Will Get Billions for Environmental Projects from $1.2T Infrastructure Bill, from Clean Water to EV Charging to Public Transit » Dallas Innovates

SustainableSA.com Posted on December 7, 2021 by stlaneDecember 7, 2021

$550 billion in new infrastructure spending is coming to projects nationwide—and a big slice is bound for Texas. From new electric buses to rail projects to improved power infrastructure to lead water service line removal and more, Texas’ environment may … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Building, Carbon, City Planning & Urban Development, Climate Change, Commercial Building, Economic Development, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy, Energy Storage, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Fossil Fuels, Job Creation, Living Wage, Microgrids, Net Zero Buiilding, Permaculture, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Residential Building, Resilience, Retrofits, Smart Grid/Networked Grid, Smart Growth, Solar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Total Cost of Energy, Utilities | Leave a reply

Jigar Shah’s big idea for getting rooftop solar and… | Canary Media

SustainableSA.com Posted on November 30, 2021 by stlaneNovember 30, 2021

How the DOE could marshal its loan guarantees to decarbonize the grid and boost energy equity in one fell swoop. Can a government program created to back industrial-scale energy infrastructure help get efficient smart appliances and solar-battery systems into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Building, Carbon, Commercial Building, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Job Creation, Net Zero Buiilding, Permaculture, Renewable Energy, Residential Building, Resilience, Retrofits, Smart Growth, Solar Energy, Utilities | Leave a reply

Solar Panel Recycling in 2019: How it Works

SustainableSA.com Posted on October 16, 2020 by stlaneOctober 28, 2020

October 16, 2020 Update: America’s Largest Solar Panel-Maker Leads the World in Panel Recycling–Recovering 95% of Materials Solar panel recycling is important for the future of solar. Solar panels have a lifetime of about 30 years. With the increasing number … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Circular Economy, Doing Something, Garbage & Waste Disposal, Reduce Reuse & Recycle, Renewable Energy, Solar, Solar Energy | Leave a reply

Energy storage hits the fast track, doubling year-over-year installations

SustainableSA.com Posted on June 20, 2019 by stlaneJune 20, 2019

Fueled by increased interest in grid service applications like time-of-use (TOU) shifting, self-consumption and backup power, the U.S. market for energy storage doubled in 2018 and is expected to double again by the end of the year. Of the 777 … Continue reading →

Posted in Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Energy Storage, Microgrids, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Smart Grid/Networked Grid, Solar Energy, Utilities | Leave a reply

Where Batteries are Replacing Power Plants

SustainableSA.com Posted on May 22, 2019 by stlaneJuly 24, 2019

A curious thing recently happened in Southern California. One of the largest utilities in the country scrapped a proposal to build a new peaker plant, opting instead to build a battery system that could store excess electricity from solar and … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Carbon, City Planning & Urban Development, CPS Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Efficiency Metrics, Energy Policy, Energy Storage, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Fossil Fuels, New Tech, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Smart Growth, Solar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Total Cost of Energy, Utilities | Leave a reply

Book-Sized Solar Panels Could Power a Whole Home in New Breakthrough

SustainableSA.com Posted on May 3, 2019 by stlaneMay 21, 2019

Scientists have developed a pioneering new technique that could generate enough electricity to power an entire home – all by using solar panels that are much smaller than current models.

A team of experts from the University of Exeter has discovered an innovative way for generating photovoltaic (PV) energy – or ways in which to convert light into power.

The new technique relies on ‘funneling’ the sun’s energy more efficiently directly into power cells, such as solar panels or batteries.

While current solar cells are able to convert around 20% of the energy received from the sun, the new technique has the potential to convert around 60% of it by funneling the energy more efficiently.

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Power-Hungry Texas Oil Drillers Get a Little Help From Solar

SustainableSA.com Posted on April 5, 2019 by stlaneApril 10, 2019

Texas, home to the world’s largest oil reserve and America’s biggest source of coal-fired power, is on the verge of a clean-energy boom. Wind already supplies about 15 percent of Texas’s electricity, and now developers are about to quadruple the … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Carbon, Economic Development, Energy Policy, Investing & Finance, Job Creation, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Solar, Solar Energy, Total Cost of Energy, Utilities | Leave a reply

The military is cutting its dangerous dependence on diesel – with solar power and microgrids

SustainableSA.com Posted on March 26, 2019 by stlaneMarch 26, 2019

The US Army is not particularly shy about adopting the latest high-tech gadgets, and renewable energy is a case in point. Despite all the fossil friendly rhetoric emanating from the White House, the Army is still pursuing microgrids with renewable … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Carbon, Cool Tech, Doing Something, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, Microgrids, Renewable Energy, Solar, Solar Energy, Total Cost of Energy, Utilities | Leave a reply

An Open Letter To Be the Change and Lead the Change

SustainableSA.com Posted on March 3, 2019 by stlaneMarch 3, 2019

Whale blubber and buggy whips were once fine industries, but progress moved us away. And today we know the days are over of a false choice between environmental protection and economic growth. Since when did the simple concept of leaving … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Carbon, Circular Economy, City Planning & Urban Development, Climate Change, Cool Tech, CPS Energy, Doing Something, Earthen Construction, Economic Development, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy, Energy Storage, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Fianance & Fundraising, Food Security, Fossil Fuels, Garbage & Waste Disposal, Investing & Finance, Job Creation, Living Wage, Microgrids, Net Zero Buiilding, New Tech, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Permaculture, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Retrofits, Smart Grid/Networked Grid, Smart Growth, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Total Cost of Energy, Transportaton, Utilities, Water, Wildlife | Leave a reply

Solar energy is green. Solar panels are not. AI can revolutionize their design

SustainableSA.com Posted on February 1, 2019 by stlaneApril 27, 2020

Solar panels are manufactured at 2,000˚C, a temperature so high it requires fossil-fuel power. They are also made using rare earth elements, the supply of which has both capacity and political issues. A new and global project is using artificial … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Carbon, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Solar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Total Cost of Energy | Leave a reply

How Rural States Are Leading the Clean Energy Revolution

SustainableSA.com Posted on January 27, 2019 by stlaneMay 27, 2019

In rural communities struggling with limited job growth and a roughly 40 percent net decline in farm incomes since 2011, wind and solar royalties have dramatically boosted economic development. In 2017 alone, farmers and ranchers received $267 million in wind … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Fuels, Carbon, Economic Development, Job Creation, Living Wage, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Smart Growth, Solar, Solar Energy, Utilities | Leave a reply

Texas Could See $100 Million In Solar Investments

SustainableSA.com Posted on June 14, 2018 by stlaneJune 14, 2018

A deal announced Monday could mean a $100 million towards solar projects in Texas. Austin-based solar power company PowerFin Partners will develop and build the projects and Toronto-based real estate investors Fengate will finance the deals as part of today’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Fianance & Fundraising, Renewable Energy, Solar, Solar Energy | Leave a reply

The Burden — American Resilience Project

SustainableSA.com Posted on June 12, 2018 by stlaneMarch 26, 2019

The San Antonio chapters of the Citizens Climate Lobby, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance held a panel discussion on June 9, 2018 about how fossil fuel dependence affects national security — and how the military … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Carbon, Climate Change, Doing Something, Economic Development, Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy, Energy Storage, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Fossil Fuels, Job Creation, Microgrids, Net Zero Buiilding, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Security, Smart Grid/Networked Grid, Solar, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Total Cost of Energy, Transportaton, Utilities | Leave a reply

San Antonio ranks 6th in U.S. solar

SustainableSA.com Posted on April 9, 2018 by stlaneApril 9, 2018

The Alamo City — which was in eighth place last year — now has 161 megawatts of direct current solar power installed, according to the latest Shining Cities report from Environment America. The numbers are through the end of 2017. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, City Planning & Urban Development, CPS Energy, Doing Something, Economic Development, Energy Policy, Job Creation, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Solar, Solar Energy, Utilities | Leave a reply

San Antonio’s CPS Energy faces criticism on clean energy strategy – San Antonio Express-News

SustainableSA.com Posted on March 9, 2018 by stlaneMarch 21, 2018

San Antonio’s public utility, CPS Energy, faced blowback from city leaders and environmental groups Thursday on its newly released strategic power plan that takes decades to fully transition to renewable sources of energy. “A lot of folks felt blindsided by … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Carbon, City Planning & Urban Development, Climate Change, CPS Energy, Doing Something, Economic Development, Energy Policy, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Fossil Fuels, Microgrids, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Solar Energy, Total Cost of Energy, Utilities | Leave a reply

World’s 1st Solar Mural Project

SustainableSA.com Posted on November 4, 2017 by stlaneNovember 8, 2017

World’s First Solar Mural Installation, a Land Art Generator Artwork by Cruz Ortiz, to be Unveiled at Luminaria. La Monarca’s final home will be at EPIcenter where it will generate clean energy for the site SAN ANTONIO, TX –– Land … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Events, Solar Energy, Uncategorized, Wildlife | Leave a reply

Butterfly wings inspire a better way to absorb light in solar panels – The Verge

SustainableSA.com Posted on November 4, 2017 by stlaneNovember 8, 2017

The wings of a butterfly have inspired a new type of solar cell that can harvest light twice as efficiently as before and could one day improve our solar panels. Solar panels are usually made of thick solar cells, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Biomimicry, Cool Tech, Energy Efficiency, Solar, Solar Energy, Wildlife | Leave a reply

MIT’s new flow battery breathes air to cut costs of renewable energy storage

SustainableSA.com Posted on November 3, 2017 by stlaneNovember 3, 2017

Renewable energy might be clean, but it's not always reliable if the Sun ducks behind clouds or the wind slacks off. To counter that variability, the grid will need to combine a range of different sources, such as solar, wind, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, CPS Energy, Doing Something, Energy Storage, Microgrids, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Smart Grid/Networked Grid, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Total Cost of Energy, Utilities | Leave a reply

Power Move: How On-Site Energy Solutions Can Help Save the Grid

SustainableSA.com Posted on October 7, 2017 by stlaneNovember 7, 2017

Across the U.S., energy users of all sizes are taking control of their power supply and relieving stress from the grid. That’s the idea behind distributed energy. Atlantic Re:think and Siemens partnered to explore this burgeoning energy revolution in 360º … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Commercial Building, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Garbage & Waste Disposal, Microgrids, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Solar Energy, Utilities, Water | Leave a reply

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