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PA schools could soon be powered by sun as solar bill advances to Senate

Published on in Environment/School/Technology

Bipartisan legislation that proposes the installation of solar panels in schools across Pennsylvania awaits a vote in the state Senate.

The Solar for Schools bill aims to combat climate change and invest in education. Fewer than 2% of Pennsylvania’s nearly 7,000 schools are powered by solar energy.

Mick Iskric is superintendent of Steelton-Highspire School District, which has a 42-acre urban school campus that serves more than 1,300 students from low-income families. He explained that, after partnering with McClure Company to install solar panels, the district now sees a monthly credit on its electric bill.

 

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Explaining the Starlink ‘satellite train,’ a glowing line of objects in the night sky

Published on in Community/News/Technology

 Seeing actual internet coverage is pretty rare, but with a clear sky – it’s possible.

If you’ve ever looked up and saw a strange line of bright objects in the sky, those are likely Starlink satellites, which orbit Earth daily, providing internet coverage across the globe.

 

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Central Pennsylvania Episcopal church installs solar panels to save money, care for creation

Published on in Environment/News/Technology

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in rural Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, is installing 52 solar panels with the goal to save at least $4,000 a year in electricity costs, which church leaders hope will help the congregation meet the growing challenge of balancing its budget while continuing to support charitable ministries.

“If this array provides our electric electrical needs, it should really reduce our costs and [carbon dioxide] production,” Maggie Chappen, senior warden, told Episcopal News Service.

 

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Pa. group pitches farms on solar model that keeps farmland usable, takes up less space

Published on in Community/News/Technology

Solar development on farmland is happening across central Pennsylvania — in some cases generating opposition from people who don’t like the look of solar panels and object to the loss of open land.

Pasa Sustainable Agriculture is working to introduce farmers to a different way of building solar farms that allows farming to continue and creates a smaller footprint. They hope it’s a way to address concerns in communities that have objected to large-scale solar.

 

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Proposed broadband upgrades for northeastern and central Pennsylvania

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A broadband assessment initiative presentation was held Tuesday at the 911 Emergency Services Center in Jessup.

The Biden Administration wants to make reliable internet accessible to all Americans by 2030.

Pennsylvania has received more than a billion dollars for the upgrade.

 

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Pa. lawmaker launches new attempt to allow community solar

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Lawmakers are trying to give people more options when it comes to buying solar energy.

Pennsylvania law allows for small, rooftop solar projects and large, utility-scale projects–but not for those that fall in-between.

State Sen. Rosemary Brown (R-Monroe) is sponsoring a measure to lift a ban on community solar projects.

 

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Pennsylvania police department using VR for de-escalation training

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CENTRAL BUCKS, Pa. – Police officers in Bucks County are undergoing de-escalation training through the lens of virtual reality.

The Central Bucks Regional Police Department (CBRPD) received a federal grant worth $159,037 to launch the program as the lead agency with partners including Buckingham, Doylestown and Plumstead Township police departments.

 

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New central Pa. crime lab can mean faster answers for victims: ‘That’s something to be proud of’

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A new state-of-the-art crime laboratory in Cumberland County will help local police process evidence and name suspects faster than other central Pennsylvania departments, officials said Tuesday.

The county forensics lab in the 1600 block of Ritner Highway in Carlisle opened last year, following decades of planning and the receipt of about $700,000 in state grants.

 

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Pennsylvania invests in low carbon technologies for energy production

Published on in Community/Environment/Technology

Black & Veatch on Wednesday (31st August) said it has commenced pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) activities for the natural gas synthesis plant that will be located in north-central Pennsylvania.

Headquartered in Kansas, Black & Veatch hold decades of experience in ammonia and nitrogen-based fertiliser production, as well as liquified hydrogen, CCS and power generation.

 

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Get a drone’s eye view of Walmart’s new ‘high-tech consolidation center’: video

Published on in Business/Technology

Walmart recently opened another large warehouse in central Pennsylvania this month located in North Lebanon Township.

The new 400,000-square-foot facility located at 1625 Heilmandale Road is considered a “high-tech consolidation center” that will employ about 500 people initially, with about 1,000 people eventually working at the facility at full capacity.

 

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What you need to know about crypto | Action 16 Investigates

Published on in Local/Technology

SCRANTON, Pa. — The cities and towns of northeastern and central Pennsylvania were built on mining, they called it “black gold.”

Our area’s anthracite powered the world and is burned into our past.

Now, there’s a new type of miner all over our area, burning power and chipping away at what some believe is our future.

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Governor Tom Wolf joins lawmakers and local officials to celebrate the expansion of Aurora in Pittsburgh. Aurora is an American technology and logistics company focused on safely developing and delivering self-driving technology.

Gov. Wolf Announces Aggressive Push to Secure Clean Hydrogen Hub in Pennsylvania

Published on in Government/News/Technology

Governor Tom Wolf today announced that Pennsylvania is working with energy, organized labor, and environmental stakeholders to support a path forward for industrial sector decarbonization with an emphasis on the deployment of clean hydrogen and carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies and to ensure that US Department of Energy invests in Pennsylvania for a Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub funded under the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).

The administration and stakeholders committed to work collaboratively to make Pennsylvania a leader in the development of clean hydrogen and competitive for energy related federal funding authorized under the BIL.

The Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs initiative is part of the Biden Administration’s effort to create good paying energy jobs by expanding the use of clean hydrogen in the industrial sector. Pursuing this opportunity will promote the creation of clean jobs in Pennsylvania, while supporting the Biden Administration’s commitment to significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

 

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Sheep and solar panels: Using solar sites for pastureland

Published on in Animals/News/Technology

A solar power boom generated by new renewable energy mandates is unfurling in the Chesapeake Bay region. Virginia, for example, was ninth in the nation for new solar capacity in 2021.

With many solar arrays ending up on farmland, a movement is fast taking hold to make sure that they will benefit the environment, agriculture and wildlife, and not just create a sea of silicon.

Allowing sheep to graze among solar panels has become one attractive antidote.

 

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