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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
In this opinion piece, Marshall Matz, senior counsel at OFW Law, discusses the negative global impact he says the Hamas attack has had on food security in agriculture.
Agrivoltaics — derived from the words agriculture and photovoltaics — creates a symbiotic energy system. Not all solar farms are agrivoltaic, but these systems are getting more attention due to concerns that solar land leases take farmland out of production.
The Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has joined NASA iTech in launching a competition to identify transformational energy technologies.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2017 - Oncor Electric Delivery Co., the largest transmission and distribution electric utility in Texas, has withdrawn a proposal to institute a solar rate that would have imposed a minimum bill on residential customers who generate solar power.
BOSTON, Oct. 11, 2017 - As Massachusetts gets closer to implementing its Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) program designed to make the state a leader in solar energy, net metering (NEM) caps are blamed for causing a 4 percent loss of solar jobs.
NEW JERSEY, September 26, 2017 - New Jersey’s future energy mix will rely heavily on renewables, at least 80 percent by 2050, if state residents get their way.
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2017 - Target has set chain-wide corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals designed to increase the company’s energy efficiency.
CALIFORNIA, July 26, 2017 - The California State Assembly has dropped a bill cleared by the Senate that would have supplied rebates for long-term energy storage systems.