Mining companies’ concerns over electricity supply in South Africa are fuelling a drive towards self-sufficiency, with some mines on the point of investing in their own power generation facilities.
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The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System is getting a $ 2.4 million federal grant to install solar power panels and wind turbines at 11 public schools.
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in partnership with an analyst at Gartner, Inc. have developed a new and more instructive approach to calculate the lifetime cost for a solar-generated energy system for comparison to other energy systems.
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