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Power surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US
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Power surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US
Tweaks to state laws mean many Americans will be able to benefit from small, simple plug-in solar panelsOliver Milman (The Guardian)
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
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‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel povertyStephen Burgen (The Guardian)
California’s first solar-covered canal is now fully online
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California's first solar-covered canal is now fully online
The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.Canary Media
Somehow missed this:
Pakistan, home to more than 240 million people, is experiencing one of the most rapid #solar revolutions on the planet, even as it grapples with poverty and economic instability.
Suddenly about half the country’s electricity comes from solar. It’s not industrial solar farms or state-led: it’s a bottom-up revolution: households fed up with rising power costs and blackouts buying what are now ridiculously cheap solar panels.
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🎇 Help save Philly's local solarpunk bookstore! Iffy Books, which has offered everything from books on permaculture to first aid workshops to open hours for soldering assistance, needs your help. Please share this letter widely!
I've been grateful for the opportunity this space offered me to rekindle my relationship with digital art for merch and run solar art and queer zine workshops. Iffy Books is irreplaceable in our community. To keep offering programs and resources that foster climate activism, right to repair, and skill sharing in Philly, we need to take action now.
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#books #bookstodon #reading #philly #philadelphia #iffyBooks #climate #climateJustice #anarchist #anarchy #bookstore #bookshop #bookstores #skillsharing #skillshare #rightToRepair #solarPunk #solar #permaculture #permacomputing
Iffy Books (@iffybooks@post.lurk.org)
Attached: 4 images This is tough to talk about, but we'll need some help to keep Iffy Books going. Here's a letter we've been circulating that explains the situation: https://iffybooks.net/a-letter-from-steve-at-iffy-books-june-13-2025/post.lurk.org
If you or anybody you know in or near #Mayo #CoMayo that is interested in #solar #smallsolar #SmallWeb installs, please join this workshop
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To figure out what is needed for a solar install, and how to size it. I have a few examples of some mini wind turbines I'll put up as well, for kicks 
More workshops being announced soon! See remote.wilderland.ie
Data centers approved, solar farms rejected: What is going on in rural Virginia?
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Data centers approved, solar farms rejected: What is going on in rural Virginia? • Virginia Mercury
Localities have continued to approve new data center proposals with little thought given to where and how they will get the power to serve them.Ivy Main (Virginia Mercury)
#solar vagabond. My posts are now outdated hamishcampbell.com/?s=solar+la… the issue you need is a panel with a "real USB-C PD" rather than just normal USB with a C socket and no PD, then you need to find a battery bank with "power pass-through" and 2 USB-C PD sockets - this is the hard part. And yes you can do it with normal 2amp 5v USB, but his will be battery assist more than power. It will work'ish but lead to premature battery wear all round.
in 2013, coal generated 175 times as much electricity as #solar power in the US. Within a decade, in 2022, coal was generating less than 5 times as much electricity (incl. estimated rooftop solar).
So far this year, coal has generated slightly more than twice as much electricity as all solar.
Coal is dying here but needs to die even faster.
#energy #climate #climateChange #ClimateCrisis
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Utility-scale solar and wind provided over half of new US generating capacity added in the first half of 2023, according to new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (#FERC) data. 17,017 megawatts (MW) of new generating capacity placed in service through June 30, 2023, 5,867 MW (34.48%) came from solar, and 2,750 MW (16.16%) came from wind for a combined total of 50.64%.
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Solar, wind provided majority of new US generating capacity in first half of 2023
Utility-scale solar and wind provided over half of new US generating capacity added in the first half of 2023, according to new FERC data.Michelle Lewis (Electrek.co)
