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KCET's award-winning environment news project Redefine ran from July 2012 through February 2017. For ongoing environmental coverage please visit our show Earth Focus, or browse Redefine's archives below for historical material.

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Energy mogul Warren Buffett has added a couple of sizable pieces to his collection of California renewable energy facilities with the purchase of the Antelope Valley Solar Plants (AVSP) from San Jose-based SunPower.
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The plan's been in the works for more than a year, but the entity that operates California's largest electrical power grid has made the official announcement: it's now managing the grid in much of southwestern Nevada as well.
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For a couple hours Wednesday, California's grid-tied solar power production topped 1.2 gigawatts -- a new all-time record set despite the winter season.
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It is a great start to the new year that the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service's has decided to open Southern California's waters to the once-banned sea otters.
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The American wind power industry got its Christmas wish granted a few days late this week.
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The story of the Solar Glut runs like this: We absolutely must increase our production of solar electricity as soon as possible, but we can't because we have too many solar panels and they're too inexpensive. In other words, outside of the context of t...
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I don't know what kind of oak it is, and I don't realize as I take a dead leaf for later identification that I'm about to connect one of humankind's oldest technologies with one of our newest.
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Did you open a package this week hoping for a nifty solar charger only to find out your gift was an ill-fitting sweater? In a few years, your gift might be both.
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Selling greenhouse gas emissions permits is about to become routine in California
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Authors of a massive plan to regulate renewable energy in the California Desert seem to ignore the fact that the EPA has already put them out of date.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the California Energy Commission needs to provide more data on potential risks to wildlife, especially migratory birds, from the proposed Rio Mesa Solar Electric Generating Station.
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If you're going to put strings of lights on your tree, and elsewhere in your house, the new generation of LED decorative lights is a much more energy efficient way of adding holiday sparkle to your surroundings. And they're safer to boot.
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