AG ALERT: Land-use bill taps farmland for solar sites Ag Alert News April 17, 2024 144By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert Proposed state legislation to modify California’s longstanding farmland conservation law could pave the way for...
UC MERCED: New Canal Project Expands on UC Merced Solar Research UC Merced News April 6, 2024 102By Patty Guerra, UC Merced Federal and state government officials journeyed to the western corner of Merced County on Thursday...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: California unveils research into ‘floating solar’ project over major canal Courthouse News Service News April 5, 2024 254California is using federal dollars for infrastructure improvement to pilot placing solar canopies over parts of its aqueducts to improve...
FEATURE: Agrivoltaics: Combining Agriculture and Solar PV for a Sustainable Future Maven News September 6, 2023 406California is leading the charge in clean energy with its ambitious goals. By 2030, the state aims to have 60...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Environmentalists push feds to add solar panels over US canals Courthouse News Service News July 20, 2023 176Placing solar panels over existing federal canals would create renewable power and prevent valuable water from evaporating at the same...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: Solar is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way Inside Climate News News June 26, 2023 278Utility-scale solar farms spreading rapidly across the desert Southwest are stressing the region’s already overtaxed groundwater and communities are beginning...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: In California’s Central Valley, the Plan to Build More Solar Faces a Familiar Constraint: The Need for More Power Lines Inside Climate News News March 26, 2023The state could embrace “policy synergy” to deploy solar in areas transitioning out of agriculture, but the transmission lines must...
