Blockade by Israel since 2007, the Gaza Strip only has electricity for 12 hours a day on average – less when the conflict escalates. So, in recent years, people throughout the Palestinian enclave have turned to solar energy to power their businesses and homes. Yasser al-Hajj, who owns a sea fish farm and restaurant, installed […]
Solar panels may be the epitome of green hardware, but as the technology advances and more powerful panels take over the market, older panels are turning into harmful waste. Now one California-based startup, SolarCycle, is taking advantage of that waste by recycling components of the panels and selling them off for profit. SolarCycle claims it […]
Palestinians living in the Israeli-blockaded enclave of Gaza have long endured an unstable and costly electricity supply, so Yasser al-Hajj found a different way: solar power. Looking at the rows of photo-voltaic panels at his beachfront fish farm and seafood restaurant, The Sailor, he said the investment he made six years ago had more than […]
German energy firm RWE AG said Saturday it had signed a purchase agreement for the Clean Energy Business affiliate of New York-based Con Edison, a deal valued at $6.8 billion that would significantly boost its US renewables portfolio. RWE is one of Germany’s main energy providers, with production historically linked to coal, which placed it […]
In rural America, shoulder-high corn is increasingly competing with a new cash crop: solar energy. Acres of solar panels shine brightly in fields along interstates and rural roads, signaling a shift in how America’s agricultural country generates revenue. The need for a happy marriage between these old and new industries has inspired an explosion of […]
CNN — Anthony Grande moved away from Fort Myers three years ago in large part because of the hurricane risk. He has lived in southwest Florida for nearly 19 years, had experienced Hurricanes Charley in 2004 and Irma in 2017 and saw what stronger storms could do to the coast. Grande told CNN he wanted […]
