The SJF Institute handed out its 2011 Green Jobs Awards recently, honoring the San Mateo, California company SolarCity. Green jobs have experienced a tremendous growth during the recession, with solar power one of the leading industries providing such employment opportunities. SolarCity currently employs 1,350 people full time and provides a full health package and retirement [...]
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Last week, the City of Sacramento, California approved a new plan with SolarCity® to install more than 8000 solar panels on municipal buildings. The 1.9 megawatt project will be the largest solar power project undertaken by the capital city of California. Under the contract, SolarCity will finance, install and maintain the solar installations. This means [...]
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Abundant sunshine, favorable governmental conditions and locations near high-voltage electrical transmission lines make Boulder City, Nevada the perfect place for solar energy. In fact, the city council just approved the fifth solar power plant for the city, called the Black Hills site, in the El Dorado Valley Energy Zone. Boulder City Nevada is the site [...]
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The Soaring Heights Communities – a residential development near Tuscon, Arizona – will be home to the largest community-wide solar project in the U.S. With a combination of rooftop solar panels and ground-mounted PV panels, the 6 megawatt (MW) installation will generate more than 10 million kilowatt-hours per year of clean, green electricity! The clean [...]
After WWII, in a memoir entitled “The Gathering Storm,” Churchill described the buildup to war in terms that evoke uncomfortable comparisons. Today, the palpable sense of another storm gathering demands attention as the sources of instability, once underestimated, reach the headlines. But something crucially different underlies this new threat, something not seen before. While we [...]
