#ICYMI Cleantech News 5/20/16
Welcome again to our series of regular In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) cleantech news blog posts. These blog posts feature some of the most interesting, compelling and/or impactful cleantech news of the week.
This week’s highlights include Google expanding the reach of Project Sunroof to 42 states and millions of additional rooftops, Ford Motor Co. Exec Chairman Bill Ford discussing the car company’s future at the Fortune Brainstorm E conference, and a new report finding that solar power is already directly saving lives in the United States.
Here are some of the top stories in cleantech this week:
- SOLAR: Greentech Media’s Julia Pyper reported that Google has expanded the reach of Project Sunroof, a tool that homeowners can use to find out if their home is suitable for solar, to 42 states and millions of more rooftops.
- POLICY: Utility Dive’s Robert Walton writes that NERC forecasts the EPA’s Clean Power Plan would boost renewable energy capacity by 10 gigawatts by 2030, from .
- RENEWABLES: Experts agree that California is on pace to easily meet its goal of having half its electricity come from clean energy by 2030, reported Fortune’s Katie Fehrenbacher from the Brainstorm E conference.
- FORD: Exec Chairman Bill Ford conducted a Q&A at the Fortune Brainstorm E conference this week discussing how the company will be experimenting and even implementing business models that go beyond traditional car ownership over the next five years, reported Fortune’s Kirsten Korosec.
- SOLAR: In Vox, David Roberts examined a new report that finds that, under the NREL Sunshot vision scenario of solar growth, solar power could deliver over $400 billion of environmental and health benefits across the United States
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