Trish Hussey and Rita Leadem stretched a ribbon in front of a solar panel set up just outside the front door of the Freedom House Recovery Center on Thursday afternoon.
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Bringing Solar Power to Those Most in Need – NC WARN News Release
NC WARN today announced a campaign to donate solar electric and hot water systems to nonprofit facilities providing services for needy North Carolinians. By working with local solar installation companies, the group is promoting solar power as solid, affordable investments for most homes and businesses, and a key element of the much-needed statewide shift to a climate-protecting renewable energy economy.
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We’re spreading the word that the time is now forrooftop solar power in North Carolina!
– Solar is affordable for most households andbusinesses.
– Solar helps owners do their part to cut pollutionand slow global warming.
– Solar is an essential part of the urgently neededstatewide shift to a climate-protecting renewable energy economy.
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Company plans to finish 15 solar farms this year – The News & Observer
Strata Solar plans 15 industrial-scale solar farms for completion this year – including three in Wake and Chatham counties – each with a power capacity of about 5 megawatts. Strata Solar executives are closing in on a deal that would be the state’s biggest solar farm, at about 20 megawatts.
N.C. panel touts wind energy use – The News and Observer
A 15-member panel said wind energy along North Carolina’s coast and sounds offered significant opportunities for renewable energy and for job creation.
Harnessing the sun’s energy for water and space heating – Earth Policy Institute
The pace of solar energy development is accelerating as the installation of rooftop solar water heaters takes off. Unlike solar photovoltaic (PV) panels that convert solar radiation into electricity, these “solar thermal collectors” use the sun’s energy to heat water, space, or both.
Ikea will install solar panels on Charlotte store, nine others – The Charlotte Business Journal
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
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
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
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.