Williamsville, Illinois. Population: 1,425
After one year of solar, the village's public library has saved $4,000, going back into programming for library patrons.
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US energy storage installations hit Q1 record, up 32% year over year: SEIA
The clean energy trade group projects 613 GWh of deployment by 2030 thanks to robust data center demand. But federal policy gridlock threatens the industry’s trajectory, it said. https://t.co/fxuui61zEI
State governos are seeing their residents' power bills go up and prioritizing energy addition.
Solar is the quickest and most affordable source to install. National policymakers need to step aside and let the industry build.
.@Mn_SEIA is honoring the solar legacy of the former MN House Speaker Melissa Hortman with three new community solar projects, bringing clean energy savings to thousands of homes in Minnesota☀️
Yesterday, SEIA and its members took to Capitol Hill to showcase America's domestic solar + storage manufacturing prowess, bringing the evidence of affordable, reliable, and securely produced energy.
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Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.
The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.
In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.
“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.
“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”
Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc
“[Solar is] an asset. It’s creating opportunities for family farms where before there were serious doubts. And for me and my family, it’s the future.”
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"At its core, solar is just another tool for farmers—one that doesn’t depend on rainfall, doesn’t fluctuate with global commodity markets, and doesn’t require fuel to produce value."
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“Rural communities want to maintain the character of the places where they live, and we have to figure out ways to do that that make economic sense for all parties," Dave Gahl, executive director, SI2, in an interview with The Daily Yonder.
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