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Let's Define Our Terms

February 24, 2023
Source: Inside Climate News
This February 23 primer breaks down what community solar means (and can mean).
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Around the United States, Storage Looks Open

November 18, 2022
Source: WBEZ Radio
A long November 17 audio report details one grant from a $350 million Federal batch to develop recycling and reuse of car batteries in a troubled Chicago neighborhood.
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Where Policy Promotes Deployment, Community Solar Achieves It

October 28, 2022
Source: Chicago Tribune
This introductory article signals, arguably, the moment when community solar breaks into the mainstream discussion. it focuses on a state whose policy aggressively promotes decarbonization.
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You Needn't Dig For the Metaphor

March 25, 2022
Source: Yale Climate Connections
On March 22, our partners presented the story of a trash collection site now generating solar energy in Urbana, Illinois.
Signing the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act in Chicago

Illinois' government made policy while the political sun shines on renewable targets. What happens next? (This image comes from the Chicago Sun-Times.)

Illinois Achieved a Broad Climate Law. How Do Supply and Demand Respond?

Max Flignor
November 19, 2021
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This September, on a sunny late summer morning in Chicago, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signed a comprehensive piece of environmental legislation called the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA). Standing on the shore of Lake Michigan, just outside the world-famous Shedd Aquarium, Pritzker heralded the bill as a major...
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State Pollinator-Friendly Solar Initiatives

February 12, 2020
Source: Clean Energy States Alliance
Seven states – Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, South Carolina, and Vermont – have enacted legislation to promote pollinator-friendly solar development. A new white paper by the Clean Energy States Alliance provides an overview of these state efforts and offers suggestions for what other states can do to promote solar while also creating or preserving healthy habitats for pollinators.
Gavin Meinschein

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ENGIE’s Gavin Meinschein on the Company’s Foray Into Pollinator-Friendly Solar

Katie Siegner
January 21, 2020
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Given the promising value proposition of pollinator-friendly solar, several states have passed voluntary standards to encourage the practice, and a number of developers have committed to pollinator-friendly projects for all or part of their portfolios. Illinois-based ENGIE Distributed Solar is one such developer. In this interview. Gavin Meinschein, ENGIE’s lead...
Solar panels in Ohio

Rooftop solar at Ohio's Wayne National Forest / Wayne National Forest / CC BY 2.0

What’s Next for Renewable Energy in Ohio?

Chris Lewis
August 21, 2019
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In July, the state of Ohio passed its HB 6 energy bill, which authorizes $300 million in annual surcharges on utility ratepayers, primarily to fund four struggling coal and nuclear power plants. The bill also scales back the state’s clean energy targets. Now that HB 6 has been signed into...
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Ameren and Opus One to Test Blockchain-Enabled Microgrid Energy Trading

April 18, 2019
Source: Greentech Media
Illinois utility will test the viability of a transactive energy marketplace, where rooftop solar, electric vehicles and home batteries could become real-time market players.
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Will the Green New Deal Work? Here's What the Research Says

February 13, 2019
Source: Pacific Standard
The Green New Deal that some Democrats are now championing is unlike anything this country has ever done before. But scientists have been studying policies like these for decades. And their research can tell us a bit about what might happen if we pass this sweeping new vision for climate action and economic equality.

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