Vermont college pushes toward clean energy goal with 5-MW solar project

State legislators, energy companies, local representatives and educators broke ground on a 5-MW solar project in Middlebury, Vermont on Tuesday. Upon completion, the solar array will supply Middlebury College with 30% of its electricity. Credit:…

Solar power transforms historic Harvard Square atrium

Trinity Property Management Inc., working with Solar Design Associates, has successfully commissioned a one-of-a-kind translucent solar energy installation over the glass atrium atop one of its premier properties in historic Harvard Square. The…

LG release first “gapless” solar module using tiling technology

LG has launched a new all-black solar panel to the U.S. market, the LG NeON H+ Black solar panel. The solar module is the first for the company to use its gap-free technology. A new wiring design overlays half-cut solar cells to reduce thermal…

After company acquisition, REC now has backing to open 1-GW module assembly facility in USA

Norwegian solar company REC Group is now part of the Reliance New Energy Solar Limited family, after parent company Reliance Industries Limited signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of REC for $771 million. The new ownership by…

More Than 30 Countries Join U.S. Pledge to Slash Methane Emissions

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Monday announced 32 countries have joined the United States in a pledge to reduce methane emissions, part of an effort to set new targets to slow global warming ahead of a major United Nations climate…

Mass Megawatts Conducts Comparative Tracking Analysis for Solar Power Systems

Mass Megawatts Wind Power Inc. has begun construction of two solar power systems to demonstrate the benefits of the company’s patent-pending,…

Pandemic Complicates Preparations for COP26 Climate Summit

In a few weeks, an estimated 20,000 ministers, activists and executives from nearly every country in the world are set to descend on Glasgow to hammer out how to make progress on climate change.And yet, the Marshall Islands chief negotiator…

U.S. Agencies Worry Most About These Climate Threats

WASHINGTON — Less food. More traffic accidents. Extreme weather hitting nuclear waste sites. Migrants rushing toward the United States, fleeing even worse calamity in their own countries.Those scenarios, once the stuff of dystopian fiction,…

Climate Change Is Devastating Coral Reefs Worldwide, Major Report Says

The world lost about 14 percent of its coral reefs in the decade after 2009, mainly because of climate change, according to a sweeping international report on the state of the world’s corals.The report, issued late Monday, underscores the…

Biden to Restore Three National Monuments in Utah and New England

Bears Ears is named for a pair of towering buttes that dominate much of the landscape of southeast Utah, and it is the site of ancient Native cliff dwellings and sacred burial grounds. It is the ancestral homeland of five tribal nations —…