SEATTLE (KTVZ) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that the Oregon Department of Energy has been selected to receive $86.6 million through the Solar for All grant competition to develop long-lasting solar programs that enable low-income and disadvantaged communities to deploy and benefit from distributed residential solar. This award is part of the
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is the latest Republican leader trying to save his job against a conservative coup. But he’s got one thing going for him that his recent predecessors didn’t. The public, especially Republicans, generally likes him. Backed by former President Donald Trump, the Louisiana Republican has a 44% favorable rating. In the […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is giving New Mexico $156,120,000 to fund solar projects. The goal is to bring solar energy to low-income families through the "Solar for All" initiative. “With the fires, drought and heat that New Mexico is experiencing because of the global climate crisis, there is real hope in []
Vermont will receive $62.4 million from a new federal program that's aiming to make solar power more affordable for low-income people. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the award on Monday — Earth Day — as part of a $7 billion initiative called Solar for All. The idea was championed by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), who kicked off the grant program in Waterbury last fall with EPA Administrator Michael Regan. The effort aims to help people transition away from...
The funds are from the Environmental Protection Agency and are going to expand the number of low-income households and disadvantaged communities that can access the affordable, clean energy source. The executive director of the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority, Gwen Yamamoto Lau, stopped by Take2 on Tuesday morning to discuss what the funding can do to help those who are burdened by high electricity costs.
Dave Duttlinger’s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his fields near Wheatfield, Indiana, are covered in solar panels and related machinery—land that in April 2019 Duttlinger leased to Dunns Bridge Solar, for one of the largest solar developments in the Midwest. On that blustery spring afternoon in 2022, Duttlinger said, his phone rang with questions from frustrated...
(The Center Square) – The emphasis on solar power in rural areas as a means of alternative energy continues to be a focal point of government spending, especially with federal taxpayer dollars headed to Arizona. In a news release last week, Arizona Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly announced that $974,538 in grants will go toward four businesses in Arizona to develop “solar energy projects.” The funding stems from the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) Renewable Energy and...
More than 115 people who viewed the solar eclipse in Ontario earlier this month experienced eye damage after the event, according to eye doctors in the province. The Ontario Association of Optometrists (OAO) says it has received 118 cases of reported eye complications since April 8. Inflammation of the cornea, dry eyes and solar retinopathy are among the conditions reported, the OAO said in a statement to CTV News Toronto. A spokesperson said that while inflammation of the cornea...
The Virginia Department of Energy will receive over $156 million in federal funding as part of the "Solar for All" program, from which around 50% of the Commonwealth's households will be eligible to benefit.
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