By [email protected] EVgo, which owns one of the United States’ biggest electric vehicle charging networks, is following in the footsteps of rival EV charging provider ChargePoint in seeking to become a publicly traded company via a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) reverse merger. In EVgo’s case, its move to public markets will come along with a…
By [email protected] U.S. President Joe Biden hit the ground running Wednesday, signing a raft of executive orders meant to start the process of reversing Trump administration environmental and energy regulations and set the groundwork of what will be the federal government’s most aggressive effort to date to combat climate change. On the day of his…
By Michael Mazengarb Australian-designed software aimed at improving farm productivity and cutting emissions through soil carbon has secured $5m from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. The post Software to slash farming emissions secures $30m investment appeared first on RenewEconomy. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
A surge of offshore wind farm finance in 2020 set an all time record for the sector, smashing the old benchmark by more than 56%, new findings show Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Wind Power News & Analysis RSS Feed
By Blagojce Krivevski Electric vehicle startup Rivian has closed another massive investment round of $2.65 billion, as it prepares to bring its all-electric R1T pickup and R1S SUV to the market this year. The financing was led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. This round also included Fidelity Management and…
Revenue of US$931.84 million was a new record for the company. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By [email protected] (Stephen Edelstein) If you’re considering a used electric car, now might be a good time to spring into action. General Motors is offering 0% APR financing for 72 months on used Chevrolet Bolt EV electric cars and Chevy Volt plug-in hybrids, reports CarsDirect, which cited a bulletin sent to dealerships last week. The…
By Kelsey Misbrener Pine Gate Renewables announced that it closed financing on a new 12-project fund of solar and solar + storage sites in North Carolina. The projects in the fund will sell power under long-term contracts to Duke Energy Progress, Duke Energy Carolinas and Halifax EMC. Crestmark, a division of MetaBank, provided the construction…
By Eleanore Robinson Invenergy completes financing for Texan solar site Read Full Article Here For more great articles: reNEWS – Renewable Energy News
By [email protected] Proterra, builder of electric buses, heavy-duty vehicle drivetrains, batteries and charging systems, plans to go public on the Nasdaq exchange via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC), the latest in a string of EV companies seeking access to public market financing to meet growing demand. Tuesday’s announcement sets the Burlingame, Calif.-based…
By Billy Ludt Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals and PV mounting and solar tracker solutions provider, has supplied its TDP 2.0 Solar Trackers for a portfolio of distributed generation solar projects in Connecticut. Part of Solar FlexRack’s tracker growth phase into the Northeast, the solar projects are being developed by TRITEC Americas,…
Corporate investment in solar projects reached US$10 billion in the second half of last year. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By [email protected] Net-zero carbon commitments went mainstream in 2020. There are now 22 regions, 452 cities and over 1,100 companies with revenue over $11 trillion that have pledged to bring emissions to net-zero by the middle of the century. In 2021 we’re going to spend a lot of time working backward from that. We’ll be…
By [email protected] Barry Cinnamon is CEO of California’s Cinnamon Energy Systems. *** Dave Barry said it best when summarizing 2020: “This was a year of nonstop awfulness, a year when we kept saying it couldn’t possibly get worse, and it always did. This was a year in which our only moments of genuine, unadulterated happiness…
Saudi Arabian developer signs five-year deal with APICORP to support funding of clean energy projects Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech