Amidst a flurry of energy announcements, the White House also released a video about the new solar panels on the White House today.
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Some of BC’s Best Farmland will be flooded if Site C Is Approved
By Roy L Hales
This is agricultural land capable of producing as wide a variety of crops as the Fraser Valley. Close to 9,429 acres of class 1-5 farmland will be flooded. Another 4,451 acres will be used for the dams, roads or is subject to erosion. Some of BC’s best farmland will be flooded if Site C is approved.
New EBus Record
By Roy L Hales
Proterra has set a new eBus record for miles traveled in a day. One of the manufacturer’s buses drove more than 700 miles in 24 hours during a road test near the company’s headquarters in Greenville, South Carolina.
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California’s Second Community Choice Utility Goes Online
By Roy L Hales
Sonoma Clean Power is now supplying power to 16,845 commercial and 6,225 residential customers. Over the next two years, all customers in the unincorporated areas of the county, Santa Rosa, Windsor, Cotati, Sebastopol and Sonoma will become eligible for service. On May 1, 2014, California’s second community choice utility goes online.
Transmission Grid Loss
The world’s transmission lines are believed to have dropped approximately 1.4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity last year. That’s around 1.2 trillion metric tons of CO2 dumped into the atmosphere. Though it is unlikely these loses can be eliminated in the near future, there are ways to reduce them.
Losses of 5-7% or so are the norm today in the United States, BC and Ontario.