Huge solar panel manufacturing plant coming to California
HAYWARD, CALIFORNIA - OptiSolar, Inc. headquartered in Hayward, Calif. is taking advantage of the $20 million incentive offered by the County of Sacramento to located its 600,000 square foot solar plant in McClellan Park which is an industrial party once home to an Air Force Base.
The photo-voltaic panel plant will generated $26 million in taxes according to a report in the Sacramento Bee. The deal, lasting 25 years, rebates the company 50% of its electricity user tax and 80% of future property tax increases.
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Transmission constraints impede incremental Quebec-to-US power deliveries
MONTREAL - With roughly 37,000 MW of installed hydro power capacity, Quebec has ample spare capacity that it would like to deliver into Northeastern US markets where ambitious clean energy goals have been announced, but expanding transmission infrastructure is challenging.
Register Now New York recently announced a goal of receiving 100% carbon-free energy by 2040 and the New England states all have ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goals, including a Massachusetts law requiring GHG emissions be 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
The province-owned company, Hydro Quebec, supplies power to the provinces of Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick, as well as sending electricity…
