Tag Archives: solar

Richmond program installing solar panels with help of local labor

By: Robert Rogers | January 13, 2012 – 2:00 pm

When Juan Lores delivered pizzas in the late 1980s, the area around Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street was so dangerous his manager wouldn’t let his...

Green tech start-up enters the world of venture capitalism

By: Derek Lartaud | October 11, 2011 – 12:21 pm

Ryan Wartena has designed what he calls an energy computer, although he routinely refers to it by different names — home micro utility, demand response...

Richmond leads the Bay Area in solar power wattage per capita

By: Veronica Moscoso | July 23, 2010 – 8:25 am

Richmond was recently awarded for installing in 2009 more solar watts per capita than any other large city in California.

Gov. Schwarzenegger outlines state plan at local “green” business

By: Robert Rogers | January 29, 2010 – 9:44 am

Gov. Schwarzenegger, who held his Richmond news conference as part of a statewide push to tout his recently proposed jobs package, hailed a “clean tech”...