By klyman SolarCity Just Produced Enough Power to Charge Every Tesla on the PlanetFortuneApr 08, 2016As of March 22, the solar energy company’s customers officially produce enough electricity in a day to power Tesla’s fleet. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: SolarCity News Feed
By Derek Markham The top clean tech jobs for this week include listings for a VP of tech and product at a social entrepreneur accelerator, a conflict minerals manager at a tech giant, inside sales at a green building company, an executive director for an island water and power authority, a commercial renewable energy business…
By Jon LeSage Daimler is now facing a “defeat device” class-action lawsuit similar to what fellow German automaker Volkswagen has been struggling with recently. Owners of Mercedes-Benz diesel cars have filed a new class-action lawsuit in a New Jersey federal district court. Law firm Hagens Berman, which had already filed a complaint in February and…
By Jason Siu The Tesla Model S is reportedly getting an update and the refreshed car could debut as early as next week. Everyone might be focusing on the newly-unveiled Tesla Model 3, but CNET reports that the Model S sedan is getting a refresh so that the American automaker can simplify manufacturing while incorporating…
By Paul Dvorak ‘Energia Renovable de la Peninsula,’ one of the projects held jointly by Envision Energy, an energy provider, and ViveEnergia, a Mexican company developing renewable energy projects, was awarded a long term power purchasing contract with the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). The strategic agreement signed in 2015 between Envision and ViveEnergia represented…
By Steven Bushong Article by Michael Gorton, CEO, Principal Solar Solar companies are looking forward to a banner year, with an expectation of long-term growth and positive returns. The question is this: are they optimizing this opportunity with a well-rounded message designed to unite Democrats and Republicans in support of solar utility? Expanded interest in…
By Kyle Field I have put thousands of miles on my Tesla Model S using the built-in navigation, but admittedly, most of that was a straight line along fairly direct freeways with very brief tangents off of the prescribed route for Supercharging. I knew that I had not really put it to the test but…
By Kyle Field Hyundai was a late bloomer in the fuel efficiency game, only bringing its Sonata Hybrid to market in 2010, the same year as the third generation of the incumbent Toyota Prius arrived on the scene. Since then, the two paths have diverged, with Toyota running off towards hydrogen fuel cell bliss while…
This is the second large fund that SolarCity has closed on in the past two days. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: pv-magazine.com
By Paul Dvorak Editor’s note: Natural gas fired plants such as the one described below are ideal partners for the growing wind-power industry because the gas plants can cycle up and down in response to the demand for power, and in minutes. Conventional power plants such as those powered by nuclear energy or coal run…
By [email protected] (Karl-Erik Stromsta) Top officials from Italian power company Enel Green Power visited the northern Argentine province of Jujuy to prospect solar power projects as the country moves forward with plans to attract investments in renewables. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
By Michelle Froese KCP&L purchase of an additional 500 MW of power from two nearby wind facilities in its service region. KCP&L announced plans to increase its sustainability portfolio with the purchase of an additional 500 MW of power from two new wind facilities in its service region. The utility serves more than 800,000 customers…
By [email protected] (Karl-Erik Stromsta) Enel Green Power started construction at its largest wind farm anywhere in the world, the 400MW Cimarron Bend project, in the US state of Kansas. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
Papua New Guinea recently became the first country to formally submit the final version of its national climate action plan (called a “Nationally Determined Contribution,” or NDC) under the Paris Agreement. The small Pacific nation’s plan to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 is no longer just an “intended” nationally determined contribution (INDC)…
By Jon LeSage While Nissan is preparing to launch the next-generation Leaf in the foreseeable future, the carmaker also has another electric vehicle platform in the works. Nissan senior vice president Shiro Nakamura told Auto Express that the Japanese automaker has a new platform in the works that could expand its electric vehicle to include…