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ENERGY NEWS TODAY

(Posted Friday, September 24, 2021)

For Central Valley, Kern County, and especially Bakersfield and Shafter residents here in California, we are in the Mecca of a new movement towards renewable energy. From climate change to failing public utility companies, the time is for renewal.

California is getting rid of natural gas is just one headline in the news today. The Los Angeles City council voted this week to get rid of fossil fuel generation by 2035. This is a decade earlier than previously proposed. The race is on for the state to fully transition into renewable energy.

(Source: https://www.barrons.com/articles/ge-stock-natural-gas-power-51630688272)

Of the three types of solar panels, monocrystalline, polycrystalline, and thin film, the technology for new thin film panels just made another advancement. With 22% efficiency, these SolFlex panels are designed for high, one-sided heat load and produced by a German company. These vehicle-integrated panels can be adapted to power cargo bikes, electric buses, trucks, and vans. If you think your Tesla 4-door sedan is the only thing on the road electric and bustling, then you haven’t seen the future.

(Source: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/09/02/flexible-solar-panel-for-vehicle-integrated-applications/)

A Norwegian company invented a wind turbine that looks like a hundred prop planes in flying formation off the coastline. You thought renewable wind turbines were just oversized windmills on the hillsides. This company is taking it to a whole new level. The race to save the planet from climate change is in the first lap and it is going strong!

(Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/90672135/this-wildly-reinvented-wind-turbine-generates-five-times-more-energy-than-its-competitors)