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Data Centers: An Affordability And Enviromental Dilemma For Montgomery County

Data Centers, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Pollution, water scarcity

By Patrick Lee Back in July, the Montgomery County Council passed an eighteen-month moratorium that effectively put the brakes on all hyperscale data center development in the county, including the proposed Dickerson data center project. This pause gives us time to debate how data centers could possibly help or worsen our existing affordability and environmental […]

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Montgomery Count is going to fail to meet its climate goal

Air Quality, aquifers, drought, water supply, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, EV, Recycle, Solar Energy

by Doug Boucher When Montgomery County officially declared a “climate emergency” in 2017, it adopted a medium-term plan that was a serious attempt to do something about that emergency. The County Council adopted a 10-year goal – to reduce our climate pollution 80% by 2027 – as well as a longer-term goal of reducing net

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A Tale of Two Systems – Solar On and Off the Grid

Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Solar Energy

by Kerrie Kyde and John Snitzer We strongly support the use of solar power, and took advantage of the 2020 Solar United Neighbors cooperative in Montgomery County to install about 8 kilowatts of grid-tied solar production on our Dickerson roof. We have since built a retirement house in Frederick County and installed another solar system,

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Poolesville’s Solar Array: ‘Old’ but Still Going Strong

Energy Efficiency, Recycle, Solar Energy

By Doug Boucher In 2013, the Town of Poolesville became the first town in Montgomery County, and only the third in the state, to create its own renewable energy system. Located next to the municipal wastewater treatment plant on the town’s eastern edge, the five-acre solar array was relatively small, generating just 1.13 megawatts of

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