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High school students have spent months building a solar power vehicle from the ground up to compete in the annual Solar Car Challenge.

High school students designed and built solar-powered cars for 1,400 mile race to California

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High school students have spent months preparing, and now it’s time for them to take their solar car creations on a journey across the country.

The annual Solar Car Challenge was established by the President and Race Director Dr. Lehman Marks, in 1993 to motive STEM students while increasing awareness for alternative energy sources.

All cars are going through “scrutineering” at the Texas Motor Speedway this weekend. This process is for the judges evaluate the vehicles to ensure they are safe.

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Source: Fox4News

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US Army solar project begins on Los Alamitos joint base

A 100-acre solar project that will bolster the power grid in Southern California and provide two weeks of emergency power for Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos, broke ground May 19.

The 26-megawatt solar project will be constructed, owned and operated by Bright Canyon Energy on a 30-year land lease in a public-private partnership between the energy company, the Department of the Army’s Office of Energy Initiatives, and the California National Guard.

“Energy resilience is something that we as a state have been actively pursuing, just like the Department of the Army,” said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Michael Leeney, commander of the California Army National Guard’s 40th Infantry Division. “This project only reinforces the commitment that we have to move forward.”

The project is being built with the installation’s emergency response mission in mind and includes a 20 MW / 40 megawatt-hour battery, 3 MW backup generators and a microgrid control system that allows the project to disconnect from the traditional power grid and operate autonomously.

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Source: U.S. Army

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How California can get to a reliable, 85% clean grid by 2030

Can California really rely on gigawatts of solar and wind power and batteries, plus long-duration energy storage systems and ​“firm” carbon-free resources like geothermal power plants, to replace the need for most of its fossil-fueled power by the end of the decade? And can it do so without driving power prices through the roof or exposing the state to the risk of major blackouts?

Yes, new modeling suggests — but the state is likely to be more successful if it dramatically ramps up offshore wind and geothermal power and depends less than previous forecasts have suggested on new utility-scale solar farms.

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Source: Canary Media

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