January 27th, 2023
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 »Why Not Cover Ugly Parking Lots With Solar Panels?
January 24th, 2023
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 »January 19th, 2023
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 […]
Read more »Delhi Proposes “Community Solar Rooftops” To Encourage Renewable Growth
January 19th, 2023
Via Mongabay, a look at Delhi’s efforts to promote community solar rooftops: In its latest draft Solar Policy 2022, the Delhi government has proposed the concept of community solar rooftops for individual consumers who do not have the option or space to setup solar panels. The state’s last solar policy in 2016 targetted achieving 1,000 […]
Read more »January 12th, 2023
Via The Gothamist, a report on how one energy company’s plan to place 150-ton batteries on an apartment rooftop ignited tenants’ fears: Residents in a Brooklyn building say they feel like “guinea pigs” in a plan to install 150-ton lithium-ion batteries on the roof of their building. Microgrid Networks’ plan to install the first large-scale residential […]
Read more »Amsterdam’s Blue Green Roofs Offer Solution to Urban Flooding and Heat Island Effect
January 4th, 2023
Via GreenRoofs.com, a report on the impact that blue green roofs can have upon urban flooding and heat island effects: In order to combat the consequences of climate change such as urban flooding and heat island effects, sustainable measures needed to be adopted. The city of Amsterdam partnered with RESILIO to come up with an […]
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