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Solar Energy Industries Association New Website

via www.seia.org

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has a new website. Check it out.

via www.solarsandiego.net

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has a new website. Check it out.

Solar is Vital to Out Energy Independence

General Wesley Clark (ret.) and Rhone Resch, CEO of the Solar Energy Industry Association wrote a piece in Forbes Magazine entitled "Solar: Life, Liberty And The Pursuit of Energy Independence." It's a great timely piece that spells out why solar is vital to our energy independence. Read the entire piece here: http://onforb.es/OrFGm5

California Without Nukes, Authorities Make Plans

California energy officials are beginning to plan for the possibility of a long-term future without the San Onofre nuclear plant.

The plant's unexpected outage of nearly five months has had officials scrambling to put a plan in place to replace its power this summer, and has become a wild card in already complicated discussions about the state's energy future.

That long-range planning process already involves dealing with the possible repercussions of climate change, a mandate to boost the state's use of renewable sources to 33% of the energy supply by 2020 and another mandate to phase out a process known as once-through cooling that uses ocean water to cool coastal power plants, which will probably take some other plants out of service.�

via latimesblogs.latimes.com

California is making plans to make a go without nuclear energy. Great news for renewables, especially since there is a mandate to get 33% power from renewable sources by 2020.

End Fracking in California

Food and Water watch has a worthy alert to end fracking in California: Click Here