Technologies That Can Change the World
To the average person, it may seem that the biggest technology advances of 2015 were the larger smartphone screens and small app updates. But a lot more happened than that. A broad range of technologies reached a tipping point, from cool science projects or objects of convenience for the rich, to inventions that will transform humanity. We haven’t seen anything of this magnitude since the invention of the printing press in the 1400s....
National Solar Company Opening in Burlington
Burlington — The nation’s largest residential solar company is opening a Vermont branch. SolarCity uses a business model it hopes will attract customers who might not have considered going solar. The company will occupy a 12,000-square-foot warehouse space in South Burlington, where it was busy setting up shop last week. Regional Vice President Lee Keshishian said the move is part of the California company’s East Coast growth spurt....
New Hampshire Solar Energy Efforts Face Uncertain Future
They’ve been popping up across New Hampshire in recent years — clusters of photovoltaic systems that each provide power to multiple homes and businesses. In the Upper Valley, the nonprofit organization Vital Communities has spurred solar installations in hundreds of households. In the Monadnock Region, Peterborough has a 944-kilowatt array that town officials expect will come online this month to power the town’s water treatment plant...
Windsor Solar Proposal Would Be Largest in Vt.
Windsor — Green Mountain Power and groSolar are proposing to build a 4.9 megawatt solar farm on 50 acres of open space just south of the Southeast State Correctional Facility in what would be the utility’s largest solar project in Vermont. Town officials said they would like to learn more about how the project may fit in with a proposed land management plan for the hundreds of acres of state-owned land surrounding the actual prison....
Report: World Will Invest $3.7 Trillion in Solar by 2040
Washington — The world’s energy portfolio will get vastly cleaner by the year 2040, says a new long-term energy outlook from Bloomberg New Energy Finance — but not clean enough. Out to 2040, the world will see a jaw-dropping growth of solar energy, especially on rooftops. BNEF projects $3.7 trillion of solar investment in the next 25 years — 35 percent of new electricity-generating capacity. And $2.2 trillion of that investment will...
