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Arcadia Raises $30M to Expand Community Solar, Home Energy Platform

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households to cleaner, cheaper energy options, raised $30 million Tuesday to fuel its expanding community solar and retail energy services business. based startup has built a novel business in the energy services space, based on software that can aggregate, analyze and package a variety of energy options for U.S.

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Michigan Utility DTE Ordered to Seek Out More Renewables

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Michigan's two big investor-owned utilities, Consumers Energy and DTE Energy, have both committed to meeting state-mandated clean energy targets and retiring coal plants by 2040. The order gives the Detroit-area utility until March 21 to resubmit its IRP, and until April 1 to submit an amended renewable energy plan.

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Hanwha Q Cells to Buy Storage Software Startup Geli to Tackle C&I Market

GreenTechMedia

Over the past decade, Geli has seen its software put to use to design, install and operate megawatts of grid-connected and behind-the-meter battery and microgrid projects. In 2016, Seattle-based startup 1Energy was acquired by Doosan. Geli, which stands for Growing Energy Labs Inc.,

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Illinois Opens Narrow Window for Critical Solar, Nuclear Relief Bills to Pass

GreenTechMedia

Two long-delayed energy bills in Illinois that could make or break the state’s nuclear and solar industries have been left in limbo by the coronavirus pandemic. Pritzker asked lawmakers to pass clean-energy legislation this year, but that was before COVID-19 led the General Assembly to stop holding formal sessions.

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Unlocking the value of energy communities

Renewable Energy World

Local community solar projects enhanced by one-stop shop digital systems are set to play a crucial role in the global energy transition. The History of Civilization is in many ways the History of Energy. The control of energy has been a key – some say the key – factor in geopolitics and capitalism.

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Texas Border Town Demands Stronger Action to Tackle Cancer-Causing Chemical Pollution

DeSmogBlog

Close to Ibarra’s home in the La Bota neighborhood of Laredo, you’ll find the Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School , a public school attended by roughly 880 kids from kindergarten to 5 th grade, almost all of whom are Hispanic. Organizers at the Laredo community meeting called for similar monitoring in their neighborhoods. “We

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. and globally by 2040.