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A Stand for Solar: How a united movement helped pause CA’s solar tax proposal — at least for now

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would charge solar users with a “grid participation charge” of $8/kWh of installed solar. Tesla estimated that an $8/kWh charge could add between $50-$80/month to a solar customer’s power bill. “People go solar because of high energy costs; energy costs are high due to negligence, not solar.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. that substantially reduce costs of the motor. the cost of wind turbines and electric vehicles by developing a. rare earth material imports, reduce the cost and improve. at San Diego, Mississippi State. This will allow a.

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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

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The Tesla Roadster can go 244 miles on a charge, but recharging it takes hours. Rate this comment: ( Reply ) Re: Half a Volt kstauff on 04/16/2009 at 2:27 PM Posts: 18 Avg Rating: Its certainly a lot better looking than the Volt and in any case has much better over all performance. The Karma can be refueled quickly.)