Solar Content / Solar Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en Siting Solar, Sparing Prime Agricultural Lands /news/sparing-lands-while-siting-solar <p>Unconventional spaces could be put to use generating renewable energy while sparing lands that could be better used to grow food, sequester carbon and protect wildlife and watersheds, says a study led by the University of California, Davis. Such lands in California's Central Valley could more than meet the state's energy demands for 2025.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> December 19, 2017 - 12:33pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/sparing-lands-while-siting-solar 5 Critical Concepts for Sustainable Solar Energy /news/5-critical-concepts-sustainable-solar-energy <p>To both advance solar energy and conservation goals over fossil-fuel use, a study led by University of California, Davis, ecologists helps clarify the benefits, trade-offs and interactions&nbsp;between renewable energy systems and the environment.</p> September 01, 2017 - 11:45am Katherine E Kerlin /news/5-critical-concepts-sustainable-solar-energy Desert Tortoises Can’t Take the Heat of Roadside Fencing /news/desert-tortoises-can%E2%80%99t-take-heat-roadside-fencing <p>Desert tortoises pace back and forth and can overheat by roadside fencing meant to help them, according to a <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320717301325">study published in the journal <em>Biological Conservation</em></a> by the University of California, Davis, and the University of Georgia<em>. </em></p> August 04, 2017 - 5:18pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/desert-tortoises-can%E2%80%99t-take-heat-roadside-fencing A House Designed for Drought /news/house-designed-drought-uc-davis-solar-decathlon-design-announced <p>A team of ºÙºÙÊÓƵ students are tackling the California drought through innovative housing design with their entry for the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2017 Solar Decathlon.</p> <p>The design focuses on cutting typical residential water use in half while maintaining the same level of comfort at an affordable price.</p> December 20, 2016 - 3:57pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/house-designed-drought-uc-davis-solar-decathlon-design-announced ºÙºÙÊÓƵ West Village Tracks Its Progress Toward Zero Net Energy /news/uc-davis-west-village-tracks-its-progress-toward-zero-net-energy <p>ºÙºÙÊÓƵ West Village, the nation’s largest planned zero net energy community, continues to work toward its goal of producing 100 percent of the energy it uses.</p> <p>A report released today by ºÙºÙÊÓƵ and the West Village Community Partnership LLC said the community is 82 percent of its way toward reaching zero net energy, or ZNE. The analysis covers the time period between September 2013 and August 2014.&nbsp;</p> September 30, 2015 - 9:12am IET WebDev /news/uc-davis-west-village-tracks-its-progress-toward-zero-net-energy