Trump Or No Trump, The US Solar Industry Is Hanging In There

The US solar industry slowed down in growth during 2025, but investor activity still contributed $22.2 billion to the domestic economy.

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Trump Or No Trump, The US Solar Industry Is Hanging In There

The US solar industry slowed down in growth during 2025, but investor activity still contributed $22.2 billion to the domestic economy.

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US Just Can't Quit Renewable Energy

The leading US renewable energy firm Invenergy has just nailed down a $2.5 billion revolving loan of credit for its clean power pipeline.

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Three New Ways To Install Solar Panels On Railway Infrastructure - CleanTechnica

Innovators are leveraging new technologies to install solar panels on sound barriers and other railroad infrastructure.

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Three New Ways To Install Solar Panels On Railway Infrastructure - CleanTechnica

Innovators are leveraging new technologies to install solar panels on sound barriers and other railroad infrastructure.

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A coal power plant demolition serves as a poignant historical moment for the Navajo

By Adam Burke
October 5, 2024

“At one point #SanJuanGeneratingStation and the #FourCornersPowerPlant, according to Los Alamos National Lab, were the largest source of point-source #pollution in the United States,' [Mike Eisenfeld of #SanJuanCitizensAlliance] said.

"But on this day, the San Juan Generating Station sat dark and inert — it shut down two years ago. As we flew over the Four Corners Power Plant, puffs of white smoke told us it was still producing energy.

'"This is the last #CoalPlant up here,” Eisenfeld said of Four Corners. 'All the others have been retired. Gone.'

"When Eisenfeld first moved to the area nearly 20 years ago, #CoalMining and coal power were on the rise in northwest New Mexico. Today, several large-scale #SolarProjects are in the works."

[...]

"[Elouise] Brown became an anti-coal activist in December 2006, after she learned that former Navajo Nation President #JoeShirley was backing a new coal-fired power plant in the region. The so-called Desert Rock project would have put a third coal plant within a few miles of the other two.

[...]

"'In our #Navajo way of life, you don’t mess with #MotherEarth. You don’t mess with the resources inside,' she said.

Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/05/nx-s1-5076973/coal-power-plant-demolition-navajo-new-mexico

#Dineh #Diné #Dinetah #PeabodyCoal #Solar #RenewablesNow #CoalPower #Pollution #WaterIsLife

Invisible Solar Panels Hide In Plain Sight, In Railroad Tracks - CleanTechnica

The Swiss startup Sun-Ways is piloting an ingenious new system for hiding large arrays of solar panels in between the ties of railroad tracks.

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Invisible Solar Panels Hide In Plain Sight, In Railroad Tracks - CleanTechnica

The Swiss startup Sun-Ways is piloting an ingenious new system for hiding large arrays of solar panels in between the ties of railroad tracks.

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Exploding Homes & Forever Fires: What Rural Solar Power Critics Want You To Forget - CleanTechnica

Rural solar power projects are under fire from nonprofit organizations with an interest in protecting the fossil energy industry.

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