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L.A. needs desert solar farms — but not everyone’s happy about it

Currently the city of Los Angeles gets about one-fifth of its electricity from renewable resources. By the end of the decade this will increase to one-third. As the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the largest municipal utility in the United States with over 4 million customers, slowly phases out coal and some […]

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The Solar Trailer That Could: Energy Innovation Inside Navajo Nation

It’s early afternoon and Brett Isaac, a barrel-chested 27-year-old whose soft-spokenness gives the impression of a gentle giant, is explaining the purpose of the solar trailer hitched to the back of his truck. “One thing we never think about is that each of us produces energy,” Isaac, renewable energy Project Manager for the Shonto Community […]

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Transmission Projects in the Southwest

Today I had the privilege of sneaking into, i.e. walking into with permission, a panel on current transmission projects in the Southwest held as part of the two-day “Energy in the Southwest” conference currently underway at the Santa Fe Hilton (price tag in the quadruple digits). Jeremy Turner, Executive Director of the New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority (RETA) […]

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