Palomar Solar scores big with cannabis industry’s first major solar project

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24 March 2019. Cannabis cultivation company Canndescent likes to be ground-breaking. Not only did it launch the first municipally permitted cannabis production facility in California in 2016, it is now the first major legal marijuana brand to install a significant on-site solar project.

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Food Factory Fined $2.3M After Two Workers Hurt in Fall

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24 March 2019. A British food manufacturing company, Karro Foods Ltd., was sentenced to pay a fine totaling £1,866,000, or about $2.3 million, after two workers were seriously hurt in a fall at the firm’s facility in Malton, UK, Great Britain’s occupational safety regulator, The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced in a press release Friday.

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VIDEO: China chemical plant blast kills 62, at Jiangsu Tianjiayi Co Ltd

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24 March 2019. An explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China has killed 62 people, state media said late on Friday, with 34 people critically injured and 28 missing, the latest casualties in a series of industrial accidents that has angered the public.

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183.2 MW Isimba hydro project commissioned in Uganda

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23 March 2019. The 183.2-MW Isimba hydro project has been commissioned on the Nile River in Uganda, multiple news agencies are reporting. The project, owned by Uganda Electricity Generation Company Ltd., cost about US$567.7 million to develop.

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Bangladesh to complete 7.4 MW of solar capacity in April

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23 March 2019. A 7.4 MW solar plant will start generating electricity next month in Rangamati, in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Division. The Rangamati array, which is being built in Kaptai district, will supply electricity to a nearby 2 MW hydropower plant, with the rest of its output to be fed into the national grid.

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Australia’s first solar farm in Antarctica opens at Casey research station

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23 March 2019. A 30 kW vertical array has been powered up at Australia’s Casey research station in Antarctica. The project is one the largest solar installations on the ice-covered continent.

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More Good News About Solar Power & Rural Electric Cooperatives (USA)

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22 March 2019. The US rural electric cooperative movement dates back to the economic development programs of the 1930’s New Deal, when 9 out of 10 rural households had no electricity. Now RECs are recasting themselves as solar power leaders of the Green New Deal, before there is even a Green New Deal.

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