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Energy Innovation: Solar Energy Solutions Continue to Gain Momentum

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Energy Innovation: Solar Energy Solutions Continue to Gain Momentum. From community solar installations to a push in some municipalities for all-electric building codes, interest in solar keeps growing. The power comes from 688,360 solar panels across 870 acres just north of town that provide electricity to the entire community.

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Denver Students Construct Tiny Homes for Homeless

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In 2017, Denver opened its first legal community of tiny homes to help a small number of people exit homelessness with the help of The Colorado Village Collaborative, an organization partnering with the Cherry Creek School District. . Now, students are building five units.

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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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P83 Innovation Center campus conceptual renderings. Feeding this worker pipeline is Arizona’s university system that produces in-demand graduates specializing in technology and innovation that can quickly make an impact on these growing businesses. City of Peoria). Army and other foreign militaries. In 2016, U.S.

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The Winning Homes in the Solar Decathlon Are …

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Evaluated for 10 different metrics, including energy efficiency, architectural design, innovation, and market potential, the homes had to be as technically impressive as they were feasible to build. The highest-ranked home in the competition was designed and built by a team from the University of Colorado in Boulder.

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Opportunities Shine in Community Solar

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That is, most consumers of electricity are not, today, permitted to aggregate their purchase of photovoltaic generated electricity with others, except through their electric power utility. Today there are only a handful of community projects actually producing power in Arizona, Colorado, California and Maryland.

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Solar Installer Sunrun Plans 800 Jobs At New Denver Office

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In Colorado, Sunrun has saved homeowners more than $4.3 million on their electric bills since 2007. The company will also help advance Colorado’s cleantech industry by offering employment opportunities in operations, project planning and design engineering. “We John Hickenlooper and state policymakers. Hickenlooper.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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Locations are bringing higher ed resources and high-tech businesses together to plant the seeds for market-ready advanced technology at incubators and innovation institutes, and to create the STEM-savvy workforce that will fill these new jobs. Chicago is rising up in ranks to become the next big place for technology innovation.