Our Electrified Home
The National Solar Tour is October 3 – 5 and we will be hosting in-person visits as part of the Minnesota Sustainability Tour. With installation of our Mitsubishi Hiper-Heat cold climate air source heat pump (ccASHP) in January 2024, we are essentially fully electified for all home energy uses. What this means is we no
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Sherco solar plant tour
On June 24 I joined a group of Climate Reality – Central Minnesota Chapter members on a tour of the Xcel Energy Sherco Solar Project. When completed, Sherco 1, 2 and 3 will form one of the largest solar power plants in the United States at 710MWac nameplate generation capacity covering 4680 acres (7.3 sq
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Earth Day Celebration at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church of Plymouth
On Sunday, April 27 the MOPLY community will celebrate Earth Day with a Vegan/Vegetarian Lunch, Eco Fair, and Electric Vehicle car show. Details are at https://www.moply.org/solar-at-mo. The headline news is that the church is having a large solar panel system installed on the roof. This system will have a 123 kW nameplate capacity and will
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In (Real) Defense of Degrowth
I am on several Sierra Club North Star chapter mailing lists and recently got an invite to a Degrowth Team meeting. The meeting invite included a link to an article for shared reading by Christopher Marquis, published on the Harvard Business Review and titled, In Defense of Degrowth. I saved a copy of the article
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