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PowerBank Reacquires 13.9MW NY Community Solar; SunShare Energizes 10.5MW in New Mexico – News and Statistics https://www.allforgardening.com/1933139/powerbank-reacquires-13-9mw-ny-community-solar-sunshare-energizes-10-5mw-in-new-mexico-news-and-statistics/ #CommunitySolar #GardeningNewMexico #NewMexico #NewYork #PowerBank #reacquisition #SolarProjects #SunShare #TaxCredits

Renewable energy is overtaking traditional power projects across Africa, industry leaders say

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s next generation of power projects is increasingly being built around solar and wind…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Africa #AU #Australia #CleanEnergy #energytransition #hybridenergy #OlamideNiyi-Afuye #RENEWABLEENERGY #Science #solarpower #solarprojects #SouthAfrica #windpower
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/697383/

Renewable energy is overtaking traditional power projects across Africa, industry leaders say

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s next generation of power projects is increasingly being built around solar and wind…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Africa #CleanEnergy #energytransition #hybridenergy #OlamideNiyi-Afuye #RenewableEnergy #Science #solarpower #solarprojects #SouthAfrica #windpower
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/667529/

The watercress dies down in winter but comes back in Spring. It's nearly ready. Here's how I grow it.

The solar watercress garden: how I made one | Uncommontater
https://uncommontater.net/2023/07/23/the-solar-watercress-garden-how-i-made-one/
#edibles #SolarProjects

A coal power plant demolition serves as a poignant historical moment for the Navajo

By Adam Burke
October 5, 2024

“At one point #SanJuanGeneratingStation and the #FourCornersPowerPlant, according to Los Alamos National Lab, were the largest source of point-source #pollution in the United States,' [Mike Eisenfeld of #SanJuanCitizensAlliance] said.

"But on this day, the San Juan Generating Station sat dark and inert — it shut down two years ago. As we flew over the Four Corners Power Plant, puffs of white smoke told us it was still producing energy.

'"This is the last #CoalPlant up here,” Eisenfeld said of Four Corners. 'All the others have been retired. Gone.'

"When Eisenfeld first moved to the area nearly 20 years ago, #CoalMining and coal power were on the rise in northwest New Mexico. Today, several large-scale #SolarProjects are in the works."

[...]

"[Elouise] Brown became an anti-coal activist in December 2006, after she learned that former Navajo Nation President #JoeShirley was backing a new coal-fired power plant in the region. The so-called Desert Rock project would have put a third coal plant within a few miles of the other two.

[...]

"'In our #Navajo way of life, you don’t mess with #MotherEarth. You don’t mess with the resources inside,' she said.

Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/05/nx-s1-5076973/coal-power-plant-demolition-navajo-new-mexico

#Dineh #Diné #Dinetah #PeabodyCoal #Solar #RenewablesNow #CoalPower #Pollution #WaterIsLife