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POTSDAM — The town board has authorized agreements with outside firms for possible developments on town-owned land on Reynolds Road. At their meeting Dec. 12, board members also approved …

Solar farms seem to be cropping up as fast as corn on Sussex County farmland. Applications for four projects are currently in the county land-use process, and one has been approved within the past two months. Three conditional-use ordinances were...

Seven new utility-scale solar projects will begin providing clean energy to Delaware Electric Cooperative members over the next three years. The nonprofit utility has announced it will purchase power produced at solar facilities to be built across...

Wakefield to participate in solar project Community Content The Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department (WMGLD) is one of six municipal utilities participating in a solar project scheduled to be built in Ludlow by the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC), the publicly owned utility’s joint action agency. The project’s cost is estimated at $14.5 million. The WMGLD will purchase approximately 1 megawatt from the 6.9-megawatt nameplate capacity project planned for t...

German Study of HFO and TFA Due in Early 2021 By Michael Garry, Jan 13, 2021, 14:17 • 5 minute reading Research project will focus on the refrigeration/air conditioning sector, amid growing industry concerns about the long-term environmental impact of TFA. When it escapes into the atmosphere, the HFO R1234yf – used widely in motor vehicle air conditioning and in food retail applications in blends with HFCs – lasts only up to two weeks. It then breaks down completely int...

But the extent of COVID-19 mitigation will tell the tale. Over the past 15 years, natural refrigerants – particularly CO 2 (R744) and propane (R290), as well as ammonia (R717) – have become recognized as the most environmentally friendly and future-proof replacement for HCFCs and HFCs in commercial and industrial refrigeration. The change began in Europe, prompted by the advent of the EU F-Gas Regulation in 2006, and caught on in Japan, where CO 2 had already made its mark in heat pump w...