https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-state-is-leaving-tribal-cultural-resources-at-mercy-of-solar-developers

#TransituonsColonialAppropriations: Palmer called the situation “extraordinary,” noting that she had found a significant network of interconnected archaeological sites from before the arrival of white settlers.
Palmer also forwarded her findings to two tribal nations whose resources would be impacted: the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, where the škwáxčənəxʷ and šnp̍əšqʷáw̉šəxʷ people are enrolled today.
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Washington State Is Leaving Tribal Cultural Resources at the Mercy of Solar Developers

The Badger Mountain solar project reveals gaps in the state’s permitting system that tribal nations say perpetuates a legacy of “cultural genocide.”

ProPublica

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/puerto-rico-residental-solar-batteries-power-grid/

“Why spend money on more natural gas peaker plants when VPPs will save all Americans $10 billion per year, and give the money to people who have already paid for smart water heaters, batteries, and other smart devices?” Jigar Shah, head of the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, told Grist.
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Puerto Rico is harnessing home solar rigs to stabilize its power grid

"We’re doing something groundbreaking, and...preventing blackouts for everyone.”

Mother Jones

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/fremont-solar-equipment-company-to-layoff-350-workers-as-industry-slows/

Enphase attributed layoffs to Newsom‘s CPUC decision. Sprawl advocate Severin Borenstein, at Berkeley's #WhiteSupremacist Haas School, said the old solar rate was much too generous, and pretended to care about the less fortunate- those without solar pay a higher cost to support the power grid.

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Fremont solar equipment company to lay off 350 workers as industry slows

On Friday, solar equipment company Enphase Energy in Fremont will lay off 350 workers.

CBS San Francisco

flipping the industry model – instead of having thousands of customers hooked on a system of massive, centralized, increasingly-expensive and unreliable power plants – GMP is decentralizing. Not just symbolically, but by literally putting its power source in customers’ homes, businesses, schools, etc.

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Instead of Utility Greed – How About Some Energy Sanity?

Listen now (2 mins) | Which is the “greenest” state in America? You might think California, or maybe Oregon. But go 3,000 miles east, and you’ll come upon the physical beauty and ecological vitality of the Green Mountain State: Vermont. Indeed, its very name is derived from the French term for green mountains:

Jim Hightower's Lowdown