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Renew Economy - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 20:41

Fortescue starts production from its first solar farm as it insists its "real zero" target by 2030 remains on track, despite the timeline shifting on its green hydrogen plans.

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La Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 20:20

Farmers have been taking to the streets all over the world in recent months. In this webinar hosted by the National Family Farm Coalition in the US , you can hear first-hand from farmers about the the roots of discontent in Europe and the protests they’re leading in their countries.

While they have often been painted by media as “anti-regulation”, the webinar aimed to set the record straight by hearing the true causes of these protests straight from French and Spanish farmers, who demand farm policy reforms that support their livelihoods and communities.

MODERATED BY: Raj Patel, Author and professor at University of Texas – Austin

SPEAKERS:

• Florent Sebban, Organic produce farmer & spokesperson of Inter- Regional Movement of AMAP
• Mathieu Corgeau, Dairy farmer & co- president of Collectif Nourrir
• Javier Sánchez Anso, Organic grain farmer & member of Coordination of Farmers’ and Ranchers’ Organizations

National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) is a member-based organization in the US, working to mobilize family farmers, fishers, and ranchers for fair prices, vibrant communities, and healthy foods free of corporate domination.

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Renew Economy - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 20:15

Experts say around 1700MW of aging wind generation in Australia could be repowered to deliver 6GW, using just a third of the turbines. But there are issues to address.

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Renew Economy - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 19:13

Dutton dismissed report on nuclear SMR by the highly respected Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, saying he is not interested in the views of "fanatics."

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Tempest Magazine - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 18:50

On August 12, a criminal trial is scheduled to begin against Alejandro Bodart, a leading member of the International Socialist League and representative in the Buenos Aires assembly. Initiated by the Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas/Delegation of Associations or Argentine Israelis (DAIA), the objective of the prosecution is to silence anyone who supports or defends the cause of the Palestinian people.

The solidarity petition demands Bodart’s acquittal and the cessation of all slanderous attacks by those who equate anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism in the effort to silence any criticism of Israeli apartheid. The petition expresses the firm rejection of this and any attempt at political censorship, in defense of the elementary democratic right to freedom of expression.

The basis of the prosecution appears to be two tweets by Bodart. One was on May 11, 2022, when he posted a photo of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, denouncing her murder with the legend “Zionists = Nazis.” The other was days later, on May 15, 2022 on the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, the bloody invasion of Palestine to create the State of Israel, which involved thousands of deaths and the forced exile of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Bodart tweeted against the “Zionist and genocidal State of Israel” and in defense of the Palestinian cause.

Bodart’s criticism of the crimes and atrocities of Zionism and support of the Palestinian people provoked the criminal lawsuit from the DAIA accusing him of alleged “discrimination.” To warrant this claim, they appealed to the often-repeated fallacy that anti-Zionism is the same as, or synonymous with, anti-Semitism. The legal argument rests on the outrageous claim that raising any political or humanitarian criticism of the state of Israel and its reprehensible actions amounts to religious or ethnic discrimination.

Through the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), Zionism promotes a misleading and false definition of anti-Semitism in order to persecute anyone who criticizes Israel, its institutions, provocations, and actions, or those of other Zionist organizations. They appeal to the legitimate sense of horror at the Nazi genocide to use the Jewish identity of the past’s victims to justify today’s genocide against the Palestinian people.

That is why we invite everyone to express their solidarity by following the link and sign the petition:

To Judge Natalia Molina

Court of First Instance for Criminal, Contravention and Misdemeanors No. 8

Before the beginning, on Monday, August 12, of the trial of Alejandro Bodart, left-wing political leader, Buenos Aires deputy (mf) and director of the magazine of the International Socialist League, the undersigned express our rejection of the false accusation of “anti-Semitism” by the DAIA (Delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations), in order to silence those who defend the Palestinian cause and silence all criticism of the State of Israel and its policies of terrorism and genocide of the Palestinian people that, to this day, has taken more than 35,000 lives.

Likewise, in defense of the democratic right to freedom of expression, as a basic human right recognized by the national Constitution and the international treaties signed by the Argentine State, we ask the justice system for his acquittal.

Please sign the solidarity petition to support Alejandro Bodart.

Featured image credit: Mohammed Abubakr, modified by Tempest.

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Red, Green, and Blue - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 18:00

With the Paris Olympics fast approaching under the shadow of the climate crisis, activists and advocates continue to raise questions about the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) commitment to one of three pillars of the Olympic Agenda: sustainability. Adam Ali, Western University; jay johnson, University of Manitoba, and MacIntosh Ross, Western University The Conversation And for […]

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Dozens of concerned citizens call for the Board to protect health and climate

CHESTERFIELD, VA – Today, dozens of concerned Chesterfield County residents rallied at the monthly Chesterfield Board of Supervisors meeting to protest against the tentative placement of Dominion Energy’s proposed gas power plant in their county. The boisterous gathering was organized in response to the Board of Zoning Appeals’ refusal to hear an appeal from the Friends of Chesterfield community group – which was joined at the rally by allies from the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Mothers Out Front, Chesterfield County Branch NAACP, and other local advocates. Protesters held up signs and chanted slogans opposing the new plant and other fossil fuel infrastructure projects that endanger public health and contribute to climate change.

Just hours before the rally, Friends of Chesterfield announced it had filed a fresh challenge with the county, attempting to call Dominion’s zoning into question. A day prior, the Southern Environmental Law Center also published a report that it had commissioned, which found that constructing an alternative renewable-based energy portfolio would cost ratepayers less than half the projected cost of CERC while providing the same annual energy and peak capacity – addressing reliability concerns.

As the rally gathered momentum, speakers addressed the crowd outside of the building before entering to address the Board meeting with public comments including the following:

Statement from Melissa Thomas, Mothers Out Front:

“Residents of Chesterfield County, who have for decades endured the harmful consequences of pollution from fossil fuel combustion in their community, are pleading with their locally elected representatives to exercise the authority entrusted to them. Their request is straightforward: Please grant us the opportunity to voice our concerns in a public hearing.”

Statement from Glen Besa, Friends of Chesterfield:

“Why is the Board of Supervisors refusing to hold a hearing on Dominion Energy’s massive methane gas power plant that would be the county’s largest source of air pollution? That is a question that every resident of Chesterfield should be asking Chairman Holland and all the county supervisors.”

Statement from Rachel James, Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), speaking on behalf of her client:

“The Chesterfield Branch of the NAACP is committed to elevating the voices of underrepresented groups to ensure their inputs inform each stage of the decision-making processes associated with Dominion’s proposed gas plant. The challenge here is that instead of stepping up to take advantage of the opportunity for local input into the air permit evaluation, the Board of Supervisors is stepping back. The Board is deferring to the Department of Environmental Quality to make a determination that the law recognizes local governing bodies, informed by their constituents, are equipped to make. Holding a public hearing on the issue of site suitability is completely within the Board’s authority to do. Refusing to hold a hearing is unacceptable. That’s why we’re here.”

Statement from Mason Manley, Central Virginia Organizer for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN):

“For more than a year now, Chesterfield residents have expressed their discontent at the lack of meaningful public participation in county approval processes for the so-called Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center. Now, the voices of Chesterfield residents could not be clearer: telling the Board to hold a vote on the matter of Site Suitability and Value and vote ‘No.’”

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The Chesapeake Climate Action Network is the oldest and largest grassroots organization dedicated exclusively to raising awareness about the impacts and solutions associated with climate change in the Chesapeake Bay region. For more than 20 years, CCAN has been at the center of the fight for clean energy and wise climate policy in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and beyond.

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Renew Economy - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 17:20

Origin to double size of Eraring battery, adding a more than four-hour second stage to help soak up solar at the site of Australia's largest coal generator.

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Audubon Society - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 15:00

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Common Dreams - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 14:37

Stefanie Fox, Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace: “This will go down in history as a moment of shame for the American people: standing ovations for the genocidal lies of a fascist leader who is using US weapons to commit crimes against humanity against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Netanyahu’s speech was as racist as it was devoid of fact — filled with anti-Palestinian and islamophobic diatribes, the appalling use of Israeli captives as fodder for his own political survival, and the slander of anti-war Americans. The Prime Minister should be held accountable for war crimes, as should the U.S. government leaders who are paying and cheering for these historic atrocities.”

Beth Miller, Political Director, Jewish Voice for Peace: “Netanyahu’s speech was a nauseating display of genocidal racism and lies. But let’s be clear: today revealed the demise of the bipartisan consensus on Israel. Over 130 Democrats boycotted Netanyahu’s speech. In a desperate attempt to make this authoritarian leader appear popular, seats were filled with guests, rather than elected officials. The far-right agenda of groups like AIPAC that seek to back Israel’s crimes against humanity are growing more toxic by the day, and the will of American voters who want a human-rights centered foreign policy is breaking through.”

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La Jicarita - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 14:17

By KAY MATTHEWS

On the zoom rendition of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Department of Energy (DOE) town hall meeting held at Buffalo Thunder on July 22, the shouts and claps from the audience in response to comments on both agencies’ management of the New Mexico nuclear industrial complex were muted. But the testimonies themselves were proof enough that the vast majority of the attendants do not want LANL to produce nuclear warhead pits, do not want more uranium exploration on Indigenous lands, and do not want a 14-mile, 115-Kilovolt power transmission linethrough the Caja del Rio. The forum was designated as question and answer: it became a forum of opposition.

In a brief introduction, Jill Hruby of the NNSA rationalized the production of more nuclear weapons by citing the invasion of Ukraine and the potential use of nuclear weapons by Russia, and China’s plans to “take back” Taiwan. “We don’t want an arms race but we can’t sit on our hands trying to find a balance.” Therefore, she said, we must modernize seven new weapons to prepare our nuclear triad, with 30 pits a year at LANL and 50 pits at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Candice Roberson, head of the DOE Office of Environmental Management, acknowledged the multiple clean-up sites in New Mexico that need attention.

Jill Hruby, second from left, and Candace Robertson, third from left. Notice the protest on a hat below (and a note to mute).

Hruby got immediate blow back from Jay Coghlan of Nuclear Watch New Mexico who read a letter from the Archbishop of Santa Fe, James Wester which read, in part, “Stop this new arms race that threatens humanity.” This was the first of many statements, not questions, that expressed intense distrust and opposition to LANL’s involvement in the nuclear industry. Meredith Maines stated that LANL is built on deceit and displaced people without their consent (at the Trinity site where the first atom bomb was exploded). Cathy Swedlund, who grew up downwind of Rocky Flats in Colorado, said that all of her family has cancer. “New Mexico is a birth to death gravesite”: uranium hasn’t been cleaned up on Indigenous lands, San Ildefonso Pueblo sits below the LANL pit production site, and Carlsbad has the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), which shut down for three years because of leakage.

Many spoke against the proposed Caja del Rio power line, which will supply LANL with additional electrical power and is currently being analyzed in an environmental assessment. Some of the pueblos have taken a strong stand against its development through their sacred lands and several Jemez Pueblo leaders spoke at the town hall as did Santa Fe County Commissioner Anna Hanson, who urged that an EIS instead of an EA be conducted.

Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group addressed Hruby about the power line by saying “Cancelling the damn project will tell us you’re listening to us.” In one of the few interactions between the federal administrators and the public, Hruby said because “I’ve known Greg a long time I’ll respond.” She emphasized that she’s “heard” all the concerns about the Caja del Rio and added there is no constructive dialogue with China or Russia and that while she “hears” you she wishes the world were different.

Don Hanco*ck of the Southwest Research and Information Center asked two questions of the administrators about WIPP: 1) because you want two production sites for pits why don’t you want two repository sites; and 2) what are you doing to comply with progress regarding an additional repository besides WIPP? Hruby acknowledged that WIPP is a “single point of failure” and the agencies must look at another repository, which Roberson of DOE said is due this year.

Leona Morgan, Diné community organizer, brought up the first of our “birth to death” gravesite issues: uranium. The Biden administration is pushing for new uranium development for nuclear power on the Navajo Nation. Communities aren’t safe when the industry has failed to deal with the waste. She was followed by a member of YUCCA (Youth United for Climate Action), the last speaker, who declared that pit production at LANL is environmental racism and that “We’re not your sacrifice zone.”

On the chat page during the meeting.

That comment pretty much encapsulated the tone of the meeting and the subsequent applause pretty much drowned out Hruby and Robertson’s final remarks about “taking these comments” back or making sure the DOE consults with the pueblos on uranium. While watching the town hall on zoom and taking notes I noticed who was also watching, many friends and colleagues who follow the nuclear industry closely: Susan Schurrman of the Albuquerque Peace and Justice Center, Pat Leahan of the Las Vegas Peace and Justice Center, Myrriah Gomez, UNM professor and author of Nuclear Nuevo Mexico, Greg Corning of Santa Fe Vets for Peace, Suzie Schwartz of Taoseños for Peaceful and Livable Futures, and Janet Greenwald of Los Alamos Downwind Neighbors. I don’t know that we expected anything any different from what happened but at the very least the NNSA and the DOE went away knowing that the anti-nuke community is still very much alive and very much worried.

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North American Windpower - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 14:12

RWE and TotalEnergies have entered into a partnership agreement to jointly deliver the 795 MW OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands, with TotalEnergies set to acquire a 50% equity stake in the project from RWE.

Located in the North Sea, the project is slated to be the first system integration project in the Dutch market, aiming to match intermittent wind power generation with varied energy demand.

RWE will lead the development, construction and operation of the wind farm on behalf of the joint venture. Offshore construction is scheduled to start in 2026, with full commissioning expected in 2028.

Sven Utermöhlen, CEO RWE Offshore Wind: “The Netherlands is one of our strategic core markets to grow our green portfolio,” says Sven Utermöhlen, CEO of RWE Offshore Wind.

“In TotalEnergies I am delighted to have a strong partner at our side with whom we can realize our first offshore wind project in the Netherlands and at the same time unlock the full system integration of OranjeWind. Together, we will provide a blueprint for the Dutch energy system of the future, designed to tackle the challenges of intermittent wind generation and flexible energy demand. As key players in the Dutch energy market, we are both committed to helping the Netherlands meet its decarbonisation targets.”

Project suppliers include Vestas, set to supply the wind farm with 53 of its 15 MW V236 turbines, SiF for 53 monopiles and TKF for the inter-array cables. Additionally, Jan De Nul was contracted to transport and install the foundations and wind turbines, using its floating heavy lift vessel “Les Alizés” and its jack-up installation vessel “Voltaire.” The offshore grid connection will be implemented by the network operator TenneT.

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North American Windpower - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 13:59

The Port San Luis Harbor District‘s board has approved entering into a Project Evaluation Agreement with Clean Energy Terminals, enabling the parties to evaluate the feasibility of an offshore wind O&M port facility in San Luis Obispo Bay.

If an O&M facility is found to be feasible, the agreement also sets out a pathway for the companies to negotiate a lease option for the project’s development and operations.

“The Harbor District’s mission is to support commercial, recreational, and coastal-related activities, and to this end, offshore wind represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for San Luis Obispo Bay that we simply cannot overlook,” said Suzy Watkins, Harbor Director of the Port San Luis Harbor District.

“The commercial and energy-related activities of the last century led to infrastructure investments that harbor users still enjoy today, including Harford Pier and the federal breakwater. Offshore wind represents this century’s opportunity to invest in local maritime projects that will ensure the Harbor’s role as a critical economic engine in SLO County for generations to come.”

Project evaluation is expected to take between six and 18 months.

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Skeptical Science - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 13:56

This is are-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters and Bob Henson

Those who’ve trawled social media during heat waves have likely encountered a tidbitfrequently used to brush aside human-caused climate change: Many U.S. states and cities had theirsingle hottest temperature on recordduring the 1930s, setting incredible heat marks that still stand today.

The critical context that’s typically left out is that the 1930s were the decade of theDust Bowl— the grim result of relentless overplowing of the Great Plains followed by natural oceanic cycles that favored a multiyear drought, which coincided with the Great Depression. It’s a U.S. disaster almost a century old, one that draws little attention today and whose living memory is fading fast.

The University of Nebraska’s excellentsummary of the Dust Bowlpoints to some of the sociological factors that led to the catastrophe:

“Boosters” of the region, hoping to promote settlement, put forth glowing but inaccurate accounts of the Great Plains’ agricultural potential. In addition to this inaccurate information, most settlers had little money and few other assets, and their farming experience was based on conditions in the more humid eastern United States, so the crops and cultivation practices they chose often were not suitable for the Great Plains. But the earliest settlements occurred during a wet cycle, and the first crops flourished, so settlers were encouraged to continue practices that would later have to be abandoned.

Threemulti-year periods of droughtunfolded between 1928 and 1942, with virtually no break in between. Much of the topsoil across the central United States simply blew away during those nasty years. The bare landscape allowed for maximal warming from the summer sun, which in turn helped reinforce the deep atmospheric heat that prevailed. Day-to-day weather patterns sometimes pushed the dust and heat all the way to the East Coast.

Hundreds of thousands of destitute farmers made their way from the Great Plains to California in hopes of finding work, a migration immortalized in the acclaimed book and movie “The Grapes of Wrath.” [From Bob Henson: My own mother grew up in western Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl, and I vividly remember her telling me how she sometimes walked to school with a wet handkerchief over her face, simply to be able to breathe without inhaling lungfuls of dust.]

Figure 1. An unidentified car on a road in the Texas Panhandle in March 1936 with heavy clouds of dust in the sky — a typical phenomenon of the Dust Bowl. (Image credit:Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons)

How the Dust Bowl teamed up with natural oceanic cycles to create all-time record heat

There’s ample evidence that the heat of the 1930s was partially the result of the parched landscape that itself was stoked by overeager planting and plowing.

Richard Seager of Columbia University and colleagues found through computer modeling that the landscape degradation of the Dust Bowlinteracted with an ocean-forced drought, intensifying the hot pattern and shifting it poleward. And a2022 modeling studyled by Gerald Meehl of the National Center for Atmospheric Research found that the Dust Bowl landscape may have helped to propagate heat extremes across other parts of the Northern Hemisphere. That paper notes:

It has only been in the twenty-first century that human populations in these regions of the Northern Hemisphere have experienced heat extremes comparable to the 1930s. This demonstrates that humans influenced Northern Hemisphere temperature and heat extremes through disastrous and unprecedented regional land use practices over the Great Plains, and points to the possibility that future intense regional droughts could affect heat extremes on hemispheric scales.

Even with the Dust Bowl influence having potentially helped spread heat and drought from North America as far as Eurasia, most of the planet remained significantly cooler than today. When you compare global and U.S. temperatures from the 1930s versus the early 21st century, as done in aClimate Brink postby scientist Andrew Dessler (see Fig. 3 below), it’s obvious that the United States wasn’t part of a truly global heat trend back then, whereas it certainly is now.

Figure 3. Average summer high temperatures over land-based areas in the 1930s (top) and in the decade 2013-2022 (bottom). (Image credit: Andrew Dessler/Climate Brink, data from Berkeley Earth)

If anything, the 1930s aren’t a comforting tale of natural variability so much as a cautionary tale of whatcanhappen — a saga of hubris, and of ignorance of how human interaction with the natural environment can pave the way to far-reaching climate impacts.

Figure 2. The lawn of the newly completed Nebraska State Capitol provided a resting place for Lincoln residents trying to escape the heat in July 1936, near the peak of the 1930s Dust Bowl. Lincoln’s hottest daily minimum on record and its all-time high both occurred on July 25, 1936, with 91°F and 115°F, respectively. (Image credit: History Nebraska Collections)

1936 heat records

The heat wasespecially brutalduring July and August 1936, as chronicled in detail by extreme weather historian Christopher Burt in a2018 write-upat Weather Underground. Dozens of U.S. states and cities set all-time high temperatures (i.e., the highest readings ever officially observed at a given site). The heat extended into south-central Canada, where Winnipeg, Manitoba, soared to its still-standing all-time high of 108 degrees Fahrenheit. Below are a few of the still-standing all-time highs set or tied in July 1936 at major U.S. cities:

New York City, New York:106°F(July 10)
Baltimore, Maryland:107°F(July 10)
Columbus, Ohio:106°F(July 14)
Louisville, Kentucky:107°F(July 14)
Des Moines, Iowa:110°F(July 25)
Minneapolis, Minnesota:108°F(July 14)
Bismarck, North Dakota:114°F(July 6)
Omaha, Nebraska:114°F(July 25)

The following states also set all-time highs in July 1936, each of which stands today:

Indiana:116°F(Collegeville, July 14)
Iowa*:117°F(Atlantic and Logan, July 25)
Kansas:121°F(Fredonia, July 18, and Alton, July 24)
Maryland:109°F(Cumberland and Frederick, July 10)
Michigan:112°F(Mio, July 13)
Minnesota:114°F(Moorhead, July 6)
Missouri:118°F(Clinton, July 15, and Lamar, July 18)
Nebraska:118°F(Hartington, July 17, and Minden, July 24)
New Jersey:110°F(Runyon, July 10)
North Dakota:121°F(Steele, July 6)
Oklahoma:120°F(Alva, July 18, and Altus, July 19)
Pennsylvania:111°F(Phoenixville, July 10)
West Virginia:112°F(Martinsburg, July 10)
Wisconsin:114°F(Wisconsin Dells, July 13)
*The 118°F reported from Keokuk 2 on July 20, 1934, is almost certainly false. No other site in Iowa measured above 112°F that day, and the NWS Keokuk site measured just 109°F.

The international disasters databaseEM-DATlists the North American heat wave of 1936 as the 11th-deadliest in modern world history, with 1,693 deaths. However, that total is an underestimate, as it includes only deaths reported from Illinois in July (1,193) and an estimated 500 deaths in Canada. Burt notes that press reports from St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Indiana imply another 814 heat-related fatalities in those locations alone. A Department of Commerce mortality statistics summary (see PDF file) lists 4,678 U.S. deaths attributed to excessive heat in 1936, as compared to 728 in 1935.

As Burt put it:

… nothing comparable to the heat wave(s) of the summer of 1936 has before or since occurred in the contiguous U.S. It is hard to imagine how people fared without home air conditioning, although there were some rudimentary forms available, such as swamp coolers.Movie theaterswere one of the few places where air conditioning provided at least some temporary relief.

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Solar Industry Magazine - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 13:44

Nexamp is partnering with Starbucks, who as a long-term renewables purchaser is set to anchor the deployment of 40 MW across six Illinois community solar farms.

The solar projects are expected to serve 1,100 local residents subscribing within the ComEd and Ameren utility territories.

Construction and operation on these projects will include roles for participants in Nexamp’s fellowship programs, created through partnerships with organizations such as City Colleges of Chicago, the Chicago Urban League, Uplift Community High School, 22C and other Future Energy Jobs Act job training organizations.

“Community solar is a perfect way for retailers to make progress on their own sustainability goals while also playing a role in the build-out of renewable energy resources that have the ability to directly benefit their own customers,” says Zaid Ashai, Nexamp CEO.

“That was the case with Starbucks, which shares our vision of equitable access to community members. Climate change is one of the most important issues of the day and we can only make meaningful progress on decarbonization when companies come together to develop impactful, inclusive solutions.”

Starbucks will receive a portion of the project’s RECs for its support of Nexamp’s Illinois operations.

Construction has begun on the solar projects, which are expected to come online next year.

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Renewable Energy Magazine - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 13:43

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