A solar rebate program that has provided millions of dollars in subsidies to Pennsylvania consumers is ending, and alternative energy advocates are worried. The AP has more: The Pennsylvania Sunshine program, passed in 2008, provided $100 million in solar rebates to homeowners and businesses to install such systems. That led to a boom, but the [...]
Solyndra, the bankrupt solar energy company that may cost taxpayers a half-billion dollars, was close to securing a Navy contract before its bottom fell out. The latest development comes from the Wall Street Journal: A major investor in Solyndra LLC was instrumental in helping the troubled solar-power firm compete for a potentially lucrative U.S. Navy [...]
The bankruptcy of federally-backed California solar company Solyndra has soured many politicians on the idea of propping up the green energy sector with government support. But here in Pennsylvania, both Democrats and Republicans agree a plan to boost the commonwealth’s alternative energy consumption is working well. StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Scott Detrow has an update on the [...]
We’ll have more on Governor Corbett’s new impact fee later today. But meantime, in other environmental news, there’s a new solar farm in Dauphin County. The Dauphin County commissioners Monday unveiled the county’s new 1-megawatt solar farm. The farm, one of the largest municipal-owned solar-generation fields in Pennsylvania, is on 5 acres of municipal-owned land [...]
Carbon County’s Panther Valley School District is tabling a $4 million solar power initiative – for now. The Times News has more: The sun set Thursday on a $4 million plan to install solar cells at the Panther Valley High School campus. But the proposal may rise again: All seven school directors attending the public [...]
Solyndra executives remained mum on Capitol Hill today, despite efforts by Congress to get them to explain how they went bankrupt after receiving more than $500 million dollars in taxpayer funds from the Department of Energy. ABC News reports that Pennsylvania Republican Tim Murphy, from Pittsburgh, became frustrated by the silence of Solyndra CEO Brian [...]
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