Published

1 year ago

December 24, 2024

Alice Rush

Navisun and North Carolina-based developer Queen City Solar have structured a co-development partnership that is advancing 30 MW of community solar in Maryland.

Queen City Solar is expected to acquire sites, advance development and move projects through permitting. Navisun is slated to take ownership and fund the projects from an early stage, with the partners sharing both risk and upside in the work.

Four of the initial projects will be located in western Maryland on dormant agricultural lots, odd lot parcels and former mining sites. The other five will be located in central and eastern Maryland and will be built on underutilized farmland or family plots. Landowners will receive yearly lease income in exchange for hosting the solar arrays.

“Co-development is a core strategy for us, and we’re committed to developing, co-developing and building community solar projects that serve energy communities and those who haven’t traditionally been able to benefit from solar,” says Matt Preskenis, Navisun’s senior vice president of Business Development.

“These projects will be developed into Maryland’s community solar program in a way that directly benefits income-qualified customers statewide, with more to come.”

The first half of the projects aim to finish development and break ground next year.

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Navisun, Queen City Solar Partner on Maryland Community Solar Portfolio

Renewable Energy

The Catastrophic Shift in America’s Impact on the World

Published

10 hours ago

March 22, 2026

Alice Rush

It’s not as if the United States has held the moral high ground throughout its history, with its slavery, the butchering of the Indians, Jim Crow, the support of tyrannical dictatorships around the globe, and the corrupt suppression of the working class in favor of Trump’s billionaire donors.

Yet, it was very recently that the entire nation became a force for the destruction of civil society.

The Catastrophic Shift in America’s Impact on the World

Renewable Energy

We’re Running Out of Time

Published

2 days ago

March 20, 2026

Alice Rush

There really are threats to human civilization that seem to be mounting in intensity:

• World fascism. (If it can happen in the U.S., it could conceivably happen anywhere.)

• Environmental collapse.

• Malicious use of AI.

• Pandemics, as misinformation on vaccinations spread and the frozen tundra melts, releasing pathogens never seen by humans.

• Nuclear war.

Addressing the point made at left, is there any scenario in which world governments agree to cooperate so as to stave off the end of an organized society here on Earth? One supposes so, though it sounds far-fetched in today’s world in which the leaders of most of the 200+ sovereign nations are trying so desperately to cling to power.