The solar carport at Six Flags Magic Mountain is expected to create enough energy to power 2,800 homes. Plus, the project is being constructed in a parking lot that already exists.
According to MP Materials, the mining company being funded for the production, California will be able to produce material enough for 500,000 electric vehicles every year by 2025.
As rooftop solar panels become more popular and affordable, the California Public Utilities Commission is poised to make a change that some worry would disincentivize potential future customers from installing them.
Clean energy advocates argue that the poor subsidize wealthier homeowners who get solar energy credits, and the poor can't install solar if they are renters.
What can you do to fight climate change? You can start right in your own home.
A team at the University of California Irvine is developing more efficient batteries that don't rely on cobalt mined in the Congo, where human-rights abuses run rampant.