Mayor Phil Hardberger said Tuesday that the city of San Antonio has been designated by the U.S. Department of Energy as the solar city in America.
With this designation, San Antonio will receive financial and technical assistance to finance solar energy initiatives that could serve as a model for other cities. San Antonio is home to [...]
The city of Los Angeles and the Jiangsu Province of China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) about cooperation in solar energy, the first of its kind between the U.S. and China.
Under the MOU, the municipal government of Los Angeles and the Jiangsu provincial government agreed to help strengthen bilateral cooperation in the solar energy [...]
FPL Group Inc., an American company, is projecting a city powered only by solar energy technologies. 56 hectares in which will be almost 20,000 homes, stores, industries and office buildings. The total cost will reach 2,000 million dollars, and the construction is planned to begin in 2010.
The solar energy city, called Babcock Ranch, is described [...]
The German town of Dardesheim has become the first in the world feeded one hundred percent on renewable energies, installed Aeolian turbines near the town and photovoltaic solar panels installed in the tile roofs of these houses, instead of farms as it happens in other places or cities, for example, the case of Ontario, in [...]
As part of a government initiative to improve the environment by using alternative energy, the municipality of Jerusalem will install solar panels in 20 cities in the coming years.
The project will cost 100 million, but the municipality is not paying for the panels. Instead, the government obliged energy companies to pay the costs. Therefore, the [...]
The Californian city of San Diego will launch by mid-year a government program of incentives for those citizens wishing to install solar panels at their residences.
Especially for those who have an interest in solar power installations, but lack the money needed to buy the panels, the government of San Diego offers the following aid program: [...]
Times are changing. The lines of the bucolic horizon with ceiling tiles defining cities in Germany would soon wear a new look: the sun.
If the council of Marburg gets their way, Marburg will be the first city in Germany to require solar collectors on the roofs of legally private commercial buildings. The goal of Fritz [...]
We present the Top 10 of US Cities that use renewable energies, according to SustainLane, this percentage is the amount of electricity that comes from renewable energies, such as solar energy.
1. Oakland, CA (17%)
2. Sacramento/SF/San Jose, CA (12%)
3. Portland, OR (10%)
4. Boston, MA (8.6%)
5. San Diego, CA (8%)
6. Austin, TX (6%)
7. Los Angeles, [...]
The administration of President Bush designated 2.4 million U.S. dollars to support the infrastructure of solar power in these cities, which represents $ 200,000 for each city.
The solar cities selected are:
* San Jose, California
* Santa Rosa, California
* Sacramento, California
* Houston, Texas
* San Antonio, Texas
* Minneapolis, Minnesota
* St. Paul, Minnesota
* Knoxville, Tennessee
* Milwaukee, Wisconsin
* Denver, Colorado
* [...]
We spoke before the San Francisco wants to be the most environmentally friendly city in the United States. Well, Mayor Gavin Newsom has just announced that the staffing of diesel vehicles in the city has been changed to biodiesel, a month before the goal that had been proposed in 2006. Fire trucks, ambulances, buses and [...]
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