Articles About solar energy :: Page 3

• Solar project moves forward

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 14, 2011

  At their last meeting, Village Council members came close to backing away from a proposed solar farm in the village. But that changed at their April 4 meeting, after Council heard from an energy expert.

• Solar project hangs on, but barely

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 7, 2011

  At its March 21 meeting Village Council came close to backing away from a proposed solar farm project, but agreed to try to gather information in upcoming weeks.

• Council OKs solar project

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 23, 2010

  At their Sept. 20 meeting, Village Council members voted unanimously to participate in the Village’s first solar power energy package. Council approved the final reading of a subscription package with American Municipal Power, or AMP, which has contracted with Standard Energy, Inc., to purchase up to 300 megawatts of solar energy.

• GCCC upgrades are good for the earth and pocketbook

  By Megan Bachman

  

  When local architect Ted Donnell began working with the Greene County Career Center five years ago, he brought with him an environmental ethic that culminated in a $6.1 million energy upgrade over the summer, replete with geothermal heating and cooling and an insulated roof.

• Vernay is potential solar site

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 9, 2010

  At their Sept. 7 meeting, Village Council members took their first official step toward adding solar power to the Village energy portfolio when they unanimously approved the first reading of an ordinance for an AMP solar energy subscription package.

• Solar project elicits interest

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 26, 2010

  At the Aug. 16 Village Council meeting Village leaders expressed enthusiasm for a new American Municipal Power, or AMP, solar energy subscription package, and asked Village Manager Mark Cundiff to prepare an ordinance to enable the Village to sign on to the project.

• The 3 percent solution for energy use

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 1, 2010

  When the Village’s electric power supplier looks into the future, its leaders assume that the village’s need for electricity will increase by about 1 percent each year. But with much of the supply currently coming from carbon–emitting coal plants, villagers and Village leaders have been looking for ways not to be such predictable power consumers.

• A solar pioneer, paving the way

  By Megan BachmanJune 17, 2010

  

  Thirty years ago, Pat Brown was arrested while marching for peace. Now she finds herself again on the front lines — this time of an alternative energy revolution — as the first resident in Yellow Springs to install grid-tied solar photovoltaic panels.