Green Options

I have been living off the grid for 15 years now, and there are certain parts of my daily energy use practices I take for granted as normal. Yet, when I visit friends or relatives living on the grid, I become aware of how differently I use electricity. While watching last week’s PBS NOW program about families living off the grid in Iowa, I began to wonder if the principles of

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Global warming concerns, government policies, and money-saving efficiency benefits have spurred clean energy systems to spring up all over the world. But a giant wind farm in the middle-of-nowhere North Dakota doesn’t do much good if there aren’t transmission lines to connect the power with the more populated areas that need it.

Europeans are facing similar distribution and reliability issues with their burgeoning renewable energy growth, and some see a continent-wide grid as

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San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, Councilmember Sam Liccardo, FST CTO Chris BeekhuisEditor's note: Sonia Aggarwal lives in San Francisco, and channels her passion for breakthrough renewable energy technologies into the Bay Area's lively world of cleanteach PR.

This Fourth of July, Fat Spaniel Technologies and the mayor of San Jose celebrate green as the new red, white and blue.

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The Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) is responsible for delivering hydroelectric power within a 15-state region of the central and western United States. WAPA – an agency of the U.S. Department of Energy – has a transmission system that carries electricity from 57 power plants to homes and businesses across a great portion of this country.

Stifle that yawn! The exciting news is that its new administrator is gung-ho on wind power.

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