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Finally, Some Feel-Good News About the Coal Industry!
We don’t live in an absolute world. Often, there’s more than one solution to a challenge - just as there are likely many ways to look at a situation and say it’s good or bad. The energy resources are no exception. Generally, we hear that renewable energy sources like...
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China Says Yes To Renewable Energy With A 381% Increase In Electric Car Sales In Just 24 Months
We recently shared with you what Rolls-Royce has in mind if you’re in the market for an electric car. The Rolls-Royce brand is decidedly British, which got us to thinking about vehicles and renewable energy on a global scale. Sure, there are countries such as the...
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Guess Who’s Jumping on the EV Bandwagon?
You’ve probably already heard the big news in electric cars. Okay, not the launch of the new Tesla model - but the announcement by Volvo that it will manufacture only electric cars starting in 2019. Wow, that’s just a couple years from now! Volvo isn’t the only...
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Is Your Utility Company About To Get Into Hot Water With You?
It’s estimated that there are over 118 million hot water heaters in American homes. Nearly 54 million of them are electric. Whether it’s gas or electric, it’s keeping water hot for us all the time—and most of that time we don’t need it. So, what if those water...
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Minnesota Momentum: Solar Energy Is On A Roll In This State
The big, shiny Silicon Valley companies like Tesla and their new solar roof tiles might be snagging all the headlines right now, but they’re far from being the only ones who are making amazing strides in bringing solar energy into the mainstream. Take the state of...
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Talkin’ About A Revolution: How Technology Is Changing The Energy Industry
Technology can do some strange voodoo. It was used to disrupt the taxi and the hotel industries. The two biggest players in those respective spaces don’t own any taxis or hotels. You’d think the energy industry—which has always been closely tied to technology—would be...
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Water and the Sun: An Unusual Solar Energy Combination
Farms are big. Hundreds or thousands of acres. Your garden? Much smaller. Use that perspective to wrap your head around the difference between a solar farm, and a solar garden. Another way to look at it is that a solar garden is designed to meet the needs of an area...
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Your Building’s Just Not That Into You: 9 Ways It’s Cheating You Out of Profits by Wasting Electricity
Superman would make the perfect building energy manager. His X-ray vision is basically what you need to have full visibility into everything you need to see where your business is losing money to poor energy management. He’s busy saving the world, and you might have...
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The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum Switches to Solar power
Who says the coal and solar energy industries always have to be on opposite sides? Interesting things can happen when they work together. Take, for instance, what recently happened at the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Benham, Kentucky. ”We’re here because of coal.”...
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Why Weather Forecasts are Becoming More Important to Electric Utility Companies
Utility companies have always been thought of as the place that generates electricity for homes and businesses. Deregulation moved them away from that singular task a while back. Today, they have a responsibility to store and distribute electricity coming through...
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