Pennsylvania Solar Center Now Accepting Nominations For 2025 Lodestar Awards

The Pennsylvania Solar Center is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Lodestar Awards to recognize the solar energy leadership of businesses, municipalities, farms, solar energy developers or any other organizations.  The deadline for nominations is May 15.

Lodestar awardees will benefit from media promotion surrounding the event, as well as the ability to proudly display the award on their website and branding materials. 

Click Here to make a nomination.

Visit the PA Solar Center's Lodestar Awards webpage to learn more about the award.

The Pennsylvania Solar Center is a nonpartisan, nonprofit effort to raise the awareness of the benefits of solar energy in Pennsylvania. Click Here to sign up for regular updates.

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-- Pennsylvania Solar Center Now Accepting Nominations For 2025 Lodestar Awards  [PaEN]

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-- AP: Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks New Administration’s Freeze On Federal Grants And Loans  

-- AP: President Rescinds Memo Freezing  Federal Money After Widespread Confusion; Executive Orders Requiring Funding Review Still In ‘Full Force’ 

-- AP: President Rescinds Funding Freeze But Uncertainty Lives On For Wide Array Of Environmental Programs 

-- E&ENews/Politico: EPA Freezes Federal Solar For All Program Funding Until Further Notice  [PA Was Due To Receive $156 Million]

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Transformational Investments In Renewables, Energy Efficiency Are Designed To Lower Energy Costs For Pennsylvania Consumers - By Molly Parzen, Conservation Voters Of PA

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Beech Hollow 215 MW Solar, 100MW Battery Energy Project On Waste Coal Pile In Washington County Has Been Abandoned Due To Uncertainties Over Reclamation Of Waste Pile 

-- WPXI: Proposed Solar Energy Facility In North Sewickley Twp., Beaver County Denied

-- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy Blog: Rising Toward A Cleaner Future: PA’s Carbon Capture And Storage Ladder For Industrial Decarbonization 

-- Pittsburgh Business Times: GE Vernova Investing $10 Million In Findlay Twp. Facility, Will Create 270 Jobs To Support Solar Energy Battery Storage

[Posted: January 28, 2025]  PA Environment Digest