Transsolar and WattCarbon are partnering to invest in rooftop solar projects in West Virginia, with the aim of reducing 200 tons of carbon emissions this year.
Transsolar purchased the energy attribute certificates (EACs) from West Virginia solar developer, Solar Holler, through WattCarbon’s OpenEAC Exchange.
Informally known as “coal country,” 89% of West Virginia’s grid is coal-based. Solar Holler is working to transform the Appalachian area into hubs of renewable energy production.
WattCarbon is providing measurement and verification services to certify hourly solar generation from Solar Holler projects, which will be tracked by WattCarbon’s EAC registry, WEATS.
WEATS is an independent, hourly registry for certifying and tracking Energy Attribute Certificates that fulfill the standards of the OpenEAC Alliance. It connects directly to energy and carbon data sources for each project, and provides a traceable report for all carbon reduction claims.
“Part of Transsolar’s mission is to decarbonize the built environment,” says Tommaso Bitossi, Transsolar’s associate partner.
“We realize that supporting the construction of new renewable energy sources is essential to this process. This is why we decided to fund Solar Holler in a grid which needs to be decarbonized as soon as possible. In WattCarbon we found a partner who sees climate action in the same way as us, that is: you are either decarbonizing, or you are not.”
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Transsolar, WattCarbon Partner on Decarbonizing Coal Country
I’m not a financial pro, but here’s some advice:
Don’t live on a budget. Make a lot of money and live far beneath your means. What value does luxury actually bring to your life, especially if it makes you nervous about running out of cash?
As I told my kids when they were growing up, “Unless you’re completely shallow, showing off your money is an idiotic thing to do. You make false friends and have people glomming onto you to sell you stuff you really don’t need.”
Warren Buffett still lives in a modest house in Nebraska, a state in which he could buy an entire country. Maybe there is something about him and his values that could benefit you.
I see.
There’s not enough land in Spain to support rooftop and ground-mounted solar at a fraction of the cost.
LOL.
It’s possible that right now, there are other civilizations observing the human race, studying us from afar, and noticing our decline into savagery and eventual extinction by turning billionaires into trillionaires.
People say that the principal weakness of human beings is that we can’t plan for the future as a species. Dogs are arguably even worse, though they aren’t consumed with greed. They don’t plot the starvation of millions of other dogs so they themselves can have enough food to last a billion years.
As an elderly man, I’ll be leaving this planet soon, but I won’t cease pondering this until my heart stops beating.
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