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Ikea will install solar panels on Charlotte store, nine others – The Charlotte Business Journal

December 6, 2011

Swedish home-furnishings retailer Ikea will install solar energy panels on its 356,000-square-foot store in north Charlotte.

Utility CEO on Solar: In “3 to 5 Years You’ll Be Able to Get Power Cheaper from the Roof of Your House Than From the Grid” – Climate Progress

November 13, 2011

CEO of NRG Energy: The fundamental issue of our day [is] climate change…. The people who were opposed to climate change legislation used one of two tactics. They either said, “Well, we don’t believe it’s happening.” Which, of course, is just a bald-faced lie.

Solar PV breaks records in 2010 – The Earth Policy Institute

October 27, 2011

Solar photovoltaic (PV) companies manufactured a record 24,000 megawatts of PV cells worldwide in 2010, more than doubling their 2009 output. Annual PV production has grown nearly 100-fold since 2000, when just 277 megawatts of cells were made. Newly installed PV also set a record in 2010, as 16,600 megawatts were installed in more than 100 countries.

What will it take to make renewable energy a reality in the U.S. – AlterNet

September 29, 2011

Renewable energy is essential if we are to avert disastrous climate change caused by carbon-dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. Yet despite significant recent growth, less than 2 percent of the about 4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity the U.S. generates a year comes from solar or wind power.

Shocker: Power demand from U.S. homes is falling – The Associated Press

September 7, 2011

Over the next decade, experts expect residential power use to fall, reversing an upward trend that has been almost uninterrupted since Thomas Edison invented the modern light bulb.

Great solar news, but NC utilities impeding the shift – An Update from NC WARN

June 30, 2011

The first two items show that we can get our energy primarily from clean, renewable sources and that solar PV will be cost competitive with traditional fossil fuels soon – even without government subsidies.
The third item relates how Duke Energy and other electric utilities are blocking the transition to clean energy in NC.

Energy Efficiency policies deliver, save consumers billions – ACEEE News Release

June 24, 2011

States across the country have been reaching or exceeding their energy savings goals established through Energy Efficiency Resource Standards (EERS), thereby lowering utility bills for consumers and reducing the need to build costly new power plants.

GE Sees Solar Cheaper than Oil, Nukes – Bloomberg

May 31, 2011

Solar power may be cheaper than electricity generated by fossil fuels and nuclear reactors within three to five years because of innovations, said Mark M. Little, the global research director for General Electric Co.

NC approves 300MW coastal wind farm – Charlotte Business Journal

May 12, 2011

N.C. regulators have issued a permit for construction of a proposed 300-megawatt wind farm near Elizabeth City.

Solar power market tops $71 billion in 2010 – The San Francisco Chronicle

March 14, 2011

The latest report, released today, shows a decade of remarkable growth. The market for solar power, wind power and biofuels still pales when compared with that for fossil fuels (Exxon Mobil, for example, made $383.2 billion last year). But clean-energy technology is no longer stuck in a niche.

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