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Bolivia has high solar power potential but faces challenges scaling up

A Greener Life

The new 100 MW Oruro solar plant is a boost to Bolivia’s energy transition, but there are obstacles to harnessing the radiation potential of its western highlands. Perched at 3,730 metres above sea level in the community of Ancotanga, the Oruro solar power plant is one of the flagship projects in Bolivia’s energy transition.

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How to Keep your Home and Garden Energy Efficient

Environment Blog

Global warming is already having a noticeable impact on our planet – sea levels are rising, polar glaciers are melting, and there have been increases in average temperatures all across the globe. Embrace solar power. One of the most popular forms of renewable energy is solar power.

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Speaking of Water: “How Do We Consider Mass Resettlement Of The World Population?” With Parag Khanna

Circle of Blue

And supply chain of that, because you obviously have a lot of waste that’s generated that you don’t want to be dumping back into the sea. I mean, places where they’re rising sea levels, you need a new infrastructure strategy. But then of course that’s still insufficient, right? In a big way.

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2023 in Climate News

Inside Climate News

The push and pull of progress and catastrophe made 2023 one of the most discordant—and consequential—years for the world’s climate. By ICN Staff In 2023, clean energy progress and the horrors of a radically warming climate fought almost to a draw.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Of Environmental Professionals 2023 Annual Conference Sept. 20-22 In State College [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Sept. Are To Blame For One Of The Grid’s Biggest Vulnerabilities When Weather Gets Rough -- Vermont State Police: Joint Investigation Into June 1 Natural Gas Tanker Fire Finds Truck Was Destroyed And Damaged U.S.

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It’s Danger Season–Is Our Nation’s Infrastructure Ready? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Higher demand means power grid operators, who start with the cleaner and cheaper plants like solar power, need to pull other, often dirtier, gas or coal-fired power plants online. Under high heat conditions, power plants can also be less efficient at producing electricity as they normally would under cooler conditions.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

Shapiros Energy Policies Will Cost Pennsylvania - By Andre Beliveau, Commonwealth Foundation -- Frozen Hoping For A Thaw: Eastern PA Coalition For Abandoned Mine Reclamation Project To Repurpose Fmr Coal Waste Plant Site Into Solar Energy, Mine Water Pool Energy Storage, Cooling Facility In Schuylkill County [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front/WPSU: Solar (..)