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Emissions models can understate the difficulty of rapidly reducing carbon dioxide this decade. Yet most observers are accepting at face value the Senate
Emissions models can understate the difficulty of rapidly reducing carbon dioxide this decade
Courtesy of NREL. Additionally, based on current electricity consumption patterns in the state, a local solar and battery storage strategy deployed on this scale would shave $15 off Illinois households’ monthly electricity bills by 2030 and $39 off by 2050. Several different pieces of legislation, including Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s energy bill, the Consumers and Climate First Act, are under consideration, and the solar industry is hopeful that the Illinois legislature will act on an omnibus clean energy package before the state’s legislative session adjourns on May 31st. In I...
Solar panels and batteries on your home could help prevent the next grid disaster Alejandra Borunda © Photograph by Ron T. Ennis, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Getty Images Mike Renner climbs onto the roof of his home in Weatherford, Texas, on September 3, 2013, to service solar hot water and solar energy panels. The power went out in Mauricio Montoya’s snow-blanketed neighborhood at 5:30 on a Monday evening in February during the cold snap that devastated Texas. Night quickly fell, sinking his neighborhood in Pearland into eerie, near-complete darkness—except for his house....