Headline News:
- The town of Hanover, New Hampshire voted to establish a goal of transitioning to 100% clean and renewable energy by 2050. The article approved at town meeting sets a community-wide goal of 100% renewable electricity by 2030 and a 2050 goal of transitioning heating and transportation to clean sources of energy. [EcoWatch]
Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire
- The 37 glaciers remaining at Glacier National Park are vanishing. In the past half century, some of the ice formations in Montana have lost 85% of their size, and the average shrinkage is 39%, a study released by the US Geological Survey and Portland State University says. One scientist said, “The glaciers will be gone in decades.” [CNN]
- Republicans’ bid to roll back an Obama-era rule limiting methane emissions from drilling rigs on public lands narrowly lost in the Senate after three GOP senators voted against the repeal in a 49-51 vote. The rule limited the amount of methane that can be vented and burned from oil and gas extraction sites on federal lands. [Huffington Post]
- “Indian solar power prices hit record low, undercutting fossil fuels” • Wholesale solar power prices have reached a record low in India. They now undercut prices of fossil fuel-generated power, increasing the likelihood that India will exceed the renewable energy targets it set at the Paris climate accords in December 2015. [The Guardian]
- A solar and battery storage mini-grid trial by Victorian network operator AusNet Services has succeeded in taking part of a Melbourne suburb completely off grid, demonstrating how utilities can use solar, battery storage and the internet of things to boost energy security and reliability in the future. Eight homes were in the trial. [RenewEconomy]
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May 11 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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