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This town is going to cover its cemetery with solar canopies

Baua Electric

Rendering: Brier’energie The residents of Saint-Joachim in Pays de la Loire, France, are putting solar canopies over their cemetery. A cemetery shaded by solar The 1.3-megawatt megawatt (MW) solar canopy will cover the Saint-Joachim cemetery and supply electricity to the commune’s 4,000 residents from the summer of 2025.

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IKEA US plans to sell solar panels starting Fall 2022

Teslarati

to provide residential solar solutions to customers. The initiative is called Home Solar with IKEA. With the initiative, members of the IKEA Family customers loyalty program have the opportunity to purchase home solar solutions through IKEA’s retail stores. California’s residential solar PV market has a CAGR of 6.1%.

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DOE partnership aims to spur US bidirectional charging integration for EVs and infrastructure

Green Car Reports

First spotted by solar-focused PV Magazine, the MOU brings together several Energy Department offices, the California Energy Commission, California Public.

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Retractable car cover claimed to gain miles of EV range each day

Green Car Reports

As solar cells gain affordability and flexibility, they’re no longer the exclusive domain of house rooftops. One such idea was introduced in February by the French company Armor, and as reported in PV Magazine, makes the solar cells part of a.

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Fontaine Modification offers refrigerated trailer electrification through new strategic alliance with eNow

Green Car Congress

The system can be powered by any combination of solar, e-axle and shore power. Heavy Duty Trucking (HDT) magazine named eNow’s eTRU system for reefer trailers one of the Top 20 Products of the year in 2020.

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SpaceX to ramp its Tesla Powerpack installations at its Starbase facility

Teslarati

Reports have emerged stating that SpaceX is expanding its onsite solar and battery storage systems at its Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. The expansion will reportedly add 750 kW of solar and about 4 MWh of energy storage. Prior to the 3 MWh Megapack, the Powerwall was Tesla’s flagship battery storage unit.

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

Creative Greenius

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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