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Efficiency upgrade helps Minnesota museum further its educational mission

By Jay Walljasper

One of the important attractions at the Science Museum of Minnesota is hidden away deep in the interior of the building. Yet people still find it interesting and inspiring.

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Midwest Energy News

December 12 2019

Upper Midwest transmission congestion reaching ‘crisis point’

CLEAN ENERGY: Though sitting in disrepair along the Indiana shoreline, the House of Tomorrow unveiled in the early 1930s still provides design lessons for solar and energy efficiency. (Energy News Network) OIL & GAS: • A governor-appointed energy task force in Michigan makes progress on a plan for propane alternatives in the Upper Peninsula, but […]

Southeast Energy News

December 12 2019

Report: Solar-powered Virginia schools triple in last 2 years

Support the Energy News Network. Give today and NewsMatch will double the impact of your donation! SOLAR: A new advisory board in Virginia is tasked with creating a pilot program to finance solar projects for low-income residents. (Energy News Network) ALSO: • The number of Virginia schools that have added solar panels has tripled in […]

Northeast Energy News

December 12 2019

Eversource to go carbon neutral, with an asterisk

Support the Energy News Network. Give today and NewsMatch will double the impact of your donation! UTILITIES: Eversource Energy pledges to make its operations carbon neutral by 2030, but it won’t affect the emissions from energy sold to customers. (Hartford Courant, New Hampshire Public Radio) ALSO: Advocates say a Vermont utility’s new energy credit trading […]

Western Energy News

December 12 2019

PG&E diverted millions away from efforts to bury power lines

Support the Energy News Network. Give today and NewsMatch will double the impact of your donation! CALIFORNIA: An audit finds PG&E “consistently and significantly” shifted money away from efforts to bury power lines underground for 10 years. (San Francisco Chronicle) ALSO: • FEMA wants nearly $4 billion from PG&E’s settlement with wildfire victims for services […]

U.S. Energy News

U.S. residential solar installations hit record pace

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