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Solar Energy
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
State solar power plans are as big as all outdoors
Business |
December 3, 2008
Just up the road, past pump jacks bobbing in California’s storied oil patch, look sharp and you’ll catch a glimpse of the state’s energy future. Read more
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Hey, your shade trees are blocking my solar panels
Business |
November 15, 2008
One neighbor loves his solar panels, which have cut his energy bill and are helping to combat global warming. Read more
Friday, November 7, 2008
L.A. solar plan could raise DWP rates
California | Local |
November 7, 2008
A plan for adding 400 megawatts of solar power throughout Los Angeles could lead to electricity rate hikes for Department of Water and Power customers ranging from 2% to 8% over the next four years, according to figures provided by the utility. Read more
Saturday, November 1, 2008
DO THE BRIGHT THING
Home & Garden |
November 1, 2008
Like most Angelenos in this fragile and declining housing market, I won’t be buying a different home any time soon. Read more
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
L.A. council orders solar rooftop measure drafted
California | Local |
October 29, 2008
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to draft a solar rooftop measure for the March 3 ballot, even though officials with the Department of Water and Power still don’t know what the initiative would do to electrical rates. Read more
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Mayor backs solar power plan
California | Local |
October 15, 2008
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and three City Council members have thrown their support behind a proposal to install enough rooftop solar panels on buildings across the city to power 100,000 residential customers of the Department of Water and Power by 2013. Read more
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Cross-border tech park gets boost from solar
Business |
October 2, 2008
A long-delayed project to attract computer chip makers to the Mexico-California border is getting a green makeover. Read more
Friday, August 15, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Green energy financing OKd
California | Local |
July 23, 2008
Berkeley and Palm Desert may be poles apart when it comes to politics. Read more
Monday, July 7, 2008
Campus innovations point to green future
California | Local |
July 7, 2008
There’s a green sheen settling over colleges and universities. Read more
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Projects to amp up solar power
Business |
March 27, 2008
Solar energy is getting a big boost in Southern California with the unveiling of two projects that will be capable of generating a total of 500 megawatts of electricity, enough to serve more than 300,000 homes. Read more
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Solar is key to DWP’s green energy drive
California | Local |
February 20, 2008
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other municipal leaders unveiled a green energy initiative Tuesday by the city’s utility that they predict will create as many as 400 union jobs over the next three years to install and maintain solar panels on city buildings and other structures around Los Angeles. Read more
Monday, January 28, 2008
New approach may power future of solar
Business |
January 28, 2008
High energy prices are fueling a sleek new kind of solar technology that could someday set skyscrapers and high-rise apartment windows quietly buzzing with renewable power. Read more
Friday, January 25, 2008
Solar power efforts struggle
California | Local |
January 25, 2008
Despite state goals to encourage alternative energy, no application to build a large solar power plant in California has been approved in 18 years, and new projects could face significant delays in the bureaucracy, the state auditor said Thursday. Read more
Monday, December 17, 2007
Mapping a path to solar power
Business |
December 17, 2007
Southern California is sunny, the French Riviera is sunny, but
NASA says the middle of the Pacific Ocean and the Sahara Desert in
Niger are the sunniest places – and the information could be worth money. Read more
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Nation in Brief / WASHINGTON, D.C. - German team wins Solar Decathlon
National |
October 20, 2007
A team of students from Germany’s Technische Universitat Darmstadt
won a weeklong competition on the National Mall for the best, most
efficient and well-designed and -engineered solar home. Read more
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Students seek their day in the sun
National |
October 18, 2007
Santa Clara University knew going in that it was not going to be
easy taking on the likes of MIT and two-time champion University of
Colorado in a national competition to design and build the best
solar-powered house. Read more
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Vintners plant solar panels alongside grapes
Business |
October 13, 2007
Clusters of harvest-ready grapes, pendulous and purple, dangle
among deep green leaves at Frog’s Leap winery in Rutherford, Calif.,
waiting to become Napa Valley wine. Read more
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Powering down their lives - Southland residents take part in a collective national open house to show how they harness the sun’s energy and use less water and fuel.
California | Local |
October 7, 2007
Ellen Mackey wanted off the grid. Read more
