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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

State solar power plans are as big as all outdoors

Business | By Marla Dickerson | 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 | By Marla Dickerson | 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 | By David Zahniser | 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 | By Susan Carpenter | 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 | By David Zahniser | 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 | By David Zahniser | 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 | By Marla Dickerson | 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

PG&E to tap into solar projects

Business | August 15, 2008
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Read more
 

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Green energy financing OKd

California | Local | By Margot Roosevelt | 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 | By Tiffany Hsu | 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 | By Andrea Chang | 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 | By Alister Doyle | 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 | By Jordy Yager | 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 | By Michelle Locke | 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

Orbiting solar panels’ day may be near

Science | By Theo Milonopoulos | October 11, 2007
Beam it down, Scotty. Read more
 

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 | By Joe Mozingo | October 7, 2007
Ellen Mackey wanted off the grid. Read more
 
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