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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. I went down to the Building Dept and they said, “It will be two weeks before we get back to you.” What happened?”.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

Green Car Congress

Building Efficiency (3 projects). Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., Affordable Energy from Water and Sunlight. The projects selected are grouped into 10 areas: Energy Storage (6 projects).

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