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Today the Pope is visiting SolarTown’s home city, Washington, DC and then will visit New York and Philadelphia. The city is abuzz with excitement and anticipation. The buses are running and the kids are going to school, but the major event is the Pope’s visit. Climate change is on his agenda. A major reason he is visiting Washington is to address a session of Congress to discuss the fight for climate change, a topic that former Popes have not addressed. The Pope believes that it is our …

PACE Financial Servicing (PFS) along with the Maryland Clean Energy Center (MCEC) announced on August 10th that they would be partnering together to construct a statewide commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program. PACE is a financing tool with national recognition that seeks to classify clean energy upgrades as a permanent benefit to the public, which are financed with no money down and then repaid as benefit assessments on the property tax bill over period of time up to twent …

The 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11) is scheduled for November 30th and will run through December 11th of 2015. The Convention, also known as the UNFCCC was created in 1994 and was ratified by 196 states, according to the official event web page. The Conference’s decision makers, or Conference of Parties, meet every year to create and establish goals in order to combat climate change that they agree to ack …

A new study, released by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, charts the growth of solar energy over the coming decades and the results show a massive expansion in renewable power. The study expects $3.7 trillion in new solar investment between now and 2040; effectively, a third of all new power will come from solar energy over the course of the next 25 years. Theses solar gains will have an outsized effect on the energy market as countries, especially developed ones, continue to make large ef …

Most residential roof space is not optimal for solar panels. Only 22-27% of residential buildings in the U.S. are viable for solar panel installation, according to a study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. This has inhibited the access of many communities to renewable energy sources that they demand. Community solar projects give those American homeowners or renters an opportunity to volunteer to invest in solar energy generation, whether it be for clean power or a financial benefi …