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A recent Levittownnow.com news article about home damage from a solar panel fire in Pennsylvania, ignited questions across the net. To answer whether rooftop solar panels put your home at risk, we looked into the phenomenon. We found the good news that properly installed solar panel rooftop systems are NOT a fire risk. The Big…
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How often do you get to make an investment that saves you money and helps the entire planet? Today is Earth Day 2022 and this year’s theme is “invest in our planet”. Businesses and homeowners are called to shift toward sustainable practices. That makes now a great time to convert to clean renewable energy. If…
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If you’re In Minnesota, and interested in a transition to solar energy, you’re in luck. A family run firm called Renewable Solar Resources has spent years working to support the transition to solar energy systems on residential and commercial properties. Renewable Solar Resources believes in a clean energy future and has found solar to be…
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Impact of Solar PV Energy Installations There are three main types of solar PV energy use in the US: residential, commercial, and utility scale. Each of the three types of solar energy generating systems has grown dramatically in the last two decades. Residential and commercial systems primarily use roof top solar panel installations to generate operating…
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Comparing Solar to Coal Power Emissions When you compare solar renewable energy systems with coal or gas based electricity production, Solar still comes out the clean energy winner. Like solar power wind turbines emissions are mostly generated during manufacturing. Once the turbine is up and spinning, though turbines generate more carbon emissions than solar energy…
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The pressure to reach net-zero emissions this decade is ratcheting up. Recently the Department of Energy acknowledged the challenge facing our nation and our planet. Today, nearly 40% of all carbon dioxide pollution comes from power plants generating power by burning fossil fuels. No wonder the Department of Energy is calling for us to revolutionize…
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Even MN Utilities are Going Green It’s time for solar power in Minnesota. The green power wave is growing, despite Minnesota Power’s MP) unique electricity load different. In 2005, 95 percent of MP’s electricity was generated by coal fired plants. Today, half of the utility’s power comes from clean energy. It’s the breakdown of its…
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If you wonder how rising oil prices will impact the world’s transition to solar energy, the events of the last month must have you concerned. By March 8, 2022, Crude Oil hit its highest price since 2009, according to tense news reports. The day Putin invaded Ukraine oil shot past $100 per barrel, and it…
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Can The World Run on 100 Percent Renewable Energy? Recently a client asked whether the world could transition out of fossil fuels entirely. If we did, could we generate enough energy to power the world 24 hours a day 7 days a week? Is there even enough space for all the wind turbines and solar…
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We have bragged about how much the price of solar panels and components has dropped in the last fifteen years. It dropped an astonished 80 percent as manufacturers enjoyed the savings of high volume production. In the last two years, trade wars, a pandemic and supply chain issues have reversed some of those savings. It…
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