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Video: Virginia’s 2nd Largest School Division Shows How to Go Solar the Right Way
Video: Virginia’s 2nd Largest School Division Shows How to Go Solar the Right Way
Jun 27, 2024
Prince William County Schools gets more benefits from hosting its own solar power systems right on campus.
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Dominion Invents New Dirty Trick to Kill School Solar in Virginia
Dominion Invents New Dirty Trick to Kill School Solar in Virginia
May 30, 2024
Everyone loves when K-12 schools go solar. But Dominion hates it. Now they've concocted a scheme to slow or stop school solar for good.
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Secure Solar Futures Adds Interim CEO, Project Management Director, and Other Staff
Secure Solar Futures Adds Interim CEO, Project Management Director, and Other Staff
Feb 12, 2024
Secure Solar Futures has appointed Macon Rich as interim CEO, hired Joshua Kraybill as Project Management Director, and filled other key openings.
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‘Solar Energy Journal’ Debunks Myths that Rooftop Solar is Subsidized by Non-Solar Customers — Provides Scientific Evidence that Net-Metered Solar Saves Money for Utilities and Ratepayers
‘Solar Energy Journal’ Debunks Myths that Rooftop Solar is Subsidized by Non-Solar Customers — Provides Scientific Evidence that Net-Metered Solar Saves Money for Utilities and Ratepayers
Jan 25, 2024
A new paper in "Solar Energy Journal" by SSF researchers debunks the claim by utilities that ratepayers subsidize net-metered solar. Our data show the opposite: solar saves money for utilities and all ratepayers.
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Solar in Coal Communities: Interview with Secure Solar Futures
Solar in Coal Communities: Interview with Secure Solar Futures
Dec 12, 2023
Matt McFadden tells Grist, America's leading environmental magazine, the secret to bringing solar to his neighbors in coal country.
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Roanoke City Schools will get Solar Power at 7 Locations
Roanoke City Schools will get Solar Power at 7 Locations
Dec 08, 2023
Roanoke City Public Schools in Virginia has engaged Secure Solar Futures to develop a 1.7-megawatt solar power system at seven locations.
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You’ll be the judge: volunteer with our high school educational program
You’ll be the judge: volunteer with our high school educational program
Nov 17, 2023
Interested in helping support high school students working on climate science and sustainability projects? If so, please join us as a judge for our 2023 Throwing Solar Shade® program!
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Empowered Students Spark Climate Action & Campus Solar
Empowered Students Spark Climate Action & Campus Solar
Aug 01, 2023
At one of the first school districts in the US to develop a climate plan, students drove the process. In Virginia, students get credit for promoting campus solar.
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Long Summer Days Are Great for Solar. Summer Heat, Not So Much.
Long Summer Days Are Great for Solar. Summer Heat, Not So Much.
Jun 22, 2023
Longer days bring more sunshine, which usually means more solar power. But if it's too hot outside, production can go down. Why? And what can be done?
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New Website Highlights Customer Stories
New Website Highlights Customer Stories
May 18, 2023
Our new website shines the spotlight on the schools, colleges, hospitals and businesses who have partnered with us to plug into the 21st century energy economy.
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2023 EPA Grants Open for EV School Buses
2023 EPA Grants Open for EV School Buses
Apr 24, 2023
Today, the EPA opened the next round of its Clean School Bus Grant Program with $400 million for electric and other types of cleaner buses.
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