July 1 Green Energy News

Headline News:

• “Mexico’s Guadalajara Hit By Freak Summer Hailstorm Which Buries Cars, Blankets Streets” • A freak hailstorm has struck Guadalajara, one of Mexico’s most populous cities, shocking residents and trapping vehicles in a deluge of ice pellets up to two meters deep. While seasonal hail storms happen, there is no record of any this heavy. [ABC News]

 Climate change means extreme weather, and here it is, summer ice from hail in Guadalajara (Ulises Ruiz | AFP)

• “Los Angeles And 8minute Solar Announce 25-Year PPA At Under Two Cents Per kWh!” • Los Angeles’ Department of Water and Power has a proposal that will help on its goal of a Green New Deal. If approved, the city will enter into a 25-year power purchase agreement for 400 MW AC of solar electricity at a price of 1.997¢/kWh. [CleanTechnica]
• “Centuries-Old Sea Captain Diaries Are Confirming Modern Climate Science” • Logs kept by whalers mates can help to fill in some of the gaps left in the weather records, which only go back to 1880. American whaler diaries have been kept since the late 1700s, adding over a century of supplementary information to the climate record. [VICE]
• “Royal Institute Of British Architects Declares Climate Emergency” • The Royal Institute of British Architects has declared a state of climate emergency. Their declaration points out that buildings and their construction account for 40% of our carbon emissions. It also provides an 11-point plan for what to do about it. [CleanTechnica]
• “Legislators Miss FirstEnergy Solution’s Deadline For Nuke Plants Bailout” • For over a year, FirstEnergy Solutions has said one thing to Ohio lawmakers: Help us by June 30, 2019, or we’ll be forced to start shutting down Ohio’s two nuclear power plants. Now the circled date has arrived, and the legislature has missed the deadline. [Akron Beacon Journal]

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