By Sophie Vorrath Australia tumbles 10 places on key environmental performance index, while Oxford report warns its coal mines and plants are among the world’s riskiest investments. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Sophie Vorrath Alinta breaks private sector ‘capital strike’ with call for expressions of interest in large-scale renewable generation projects. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Alan Pears In a traffic jam, air conditioners can use half the fuel consumed by a car. This looks like fertile ground for research into new cars and their air conditioners, and retrofit measures. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Press Release “We are pleased our newly expanded store created the opportunity to extend the rooftop solar array,” said Matt Hunsicker, store manager. The post IKEA Makes Michigan’s Largest Rooftop Solar Array 25% Bigger appeared first on Solar Thermal Magazine. Related posts: For more great articles: Solar Thermal Magazine
By Tim Buckley Shenhua, the Chinese coal giant proposing to develop controversial coal mine in Liverpool Plains, cut its imports last year to virtually zero. Does it really need a new mine? Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
Wells Fargo and 8point3 Energy Partners — the yieldco company formed by SunPower and First Solar — has announced that a joint venture between the two companies has acquired 22MW of SunPower PV systems under constitution at 27 Kern High School District locations in Kern Country, California. Read Full Article Here For more great articles:…
The IDTechEx Launchpad initiative is open to early-stage start-ups, universities, newly spun-out companies, research labs and government labs who can demonstrate a working prototype or product that highlights new advances in any of the related event topics of: 3d printing, electric vehicles, energy harvesting, graphene, internet of things, printed electronics, Read Full Article Here For…
Loon Copter is a novel multi-rotor platform capable of traditional aerial flight, on-water surface operation, and sub aquatic diving. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Electric Vehicles Research
By [email protected] (Richard A. Kessler) Yieldco 8point3 Energy Partners reported a fiscal fourth quarter $8.6m net loss on $4m revenue, saying that results were negatively impacted by a 30-delay in the 108MW (ac) Quinto PV project reaching commercial operation in California. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
The joint First Solar/SunPower yieldco achieved $16.3 million in cash available for distribution, above its guidance, with 131 MW-AC of projects reaching commercial completion during the quarter. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: pv-magazine.com
By [email protected] Until recently, Mexico represented the most promising market for solar in Latin America. But the strong growth expected for the country is now much less certain. In fact, solar installation figures in 2016 could be 36 percent smaller than projected last year. What happened? As we’ve documented, solar developers and financiers Read Full…
By [email protected] (Richard A. Kessler) Acciona and Vestas set corporate records for US wind turbine capacity installation in 2015, as the Danish giant, General Electric and Siemens dominated the market with a combined 88% share, according to data compiled by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
By National Wind Watch The installation of renewable energy like wind turbine farms is wreaking havoc across Sapmi, the traditional Saami homeland that stretches from Arctic Norway through Sweden and Finland and into northwestern Russia. In Sweden and in Norway these windfarms have destroyed traditional reindeer grazing lands and caused mental and financial issues Read…
By National Wind Watch WAINFLEET — They knew the turbines were coming, they even knew the fight to stop them was all but over; what they didn’t know however was how construction would impact their lives. A group of Wellandport residents living on Side Road 42 and Concession 6 recently met with Wainfleet Mayor Read…
By National Wind Watch NextEra Energy Resources Inc. plans to file an application for its third Tuscola County wind park within two months, but area landowners say they’re already against it. Steven Stengel, director of communications at NextEra Energy Resources, said the company hopes to break ground on the 100-megawatt park by the end Read…