By Kelly Pickerel Through a partnership with Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital and SunStrong Capital Holdings, SunPower has secured financing commitments for its residential solar lease program that will help the company meet its expected customer demand into 2020. SunPower has provided solar lease financing options to customers since 2010. The financing provisions with this…
Ireland has published the Climate Action Plan, led by Minister Richard Bruton, to give Irish people a cleaner, safer and more sustainable future. The plan sets out over 180 actions, together with hundreds of sub-actions, that need to be taken to achieve 2030 targets for carbon emissions, and to achieve net zero carbon emissions by…
Cubico Sustainable Investments has reached financial close on a 105 MW PV project in Pender County, North Carolina. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By [email protected] (Eric C. Evarts) Powering cars with clean electricity is one way to make transportation more sustainable. Going back to basics with human powered transportation may be a bigger step. But getting more bicycles on the road has been an uphill battle for many communities. As waving fists and occasional hanging boots attest, car…
By ENEL Foundation Content Contributor Enel Foundation is promoting the second edition of the Siena Summer School on Sustainable Development, dedicated to providing a high-profile training and qualification on sustainability issues in relation to the UN Agenda 2030 and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), on which 193 nations are engaged.The call for application has…
By [email protected] The speculative field of gravity-based energy storage got a boost recently with news of a strategic investment and new patents. Swiss-U.S. startup Energy Vault, one of the most high-profile gravity storage players to date, secured financial backing from Cemex Ventures, the corporate venture capital unit of the world’s second-largest building materials giant, and…
By Kelly Pickerel Community solar provider Nexamp kicked off a new solar grazing program recently with the deployment of approximately 150 sheep on its 7.5-MW solar farm in Newfield, New York. The sheep, provided by a local sheep farmer, will be used to provide sustainable vegetation management at the site throughout the growing season. Solar…
By Suzie Ocie The world needs greener energy. With only 11 years left to implement solutions to prevent irreversible damage from climate change according to the United Nations, it is imperative that every industry acknowledges this threat and swiftly takes necessary measures to ensure that its operations are cleaner and sustainable.One of the slowest sectors…
One of the big issues with sustainable energy systems is how to store electricity that’s generated from wind, solar and waves. At present, no existing technology provides large-scale storage and energy retrieval for sustainable energy at a low financial and environmental cost. Engineered electroactive microbes could be part of the solution. Read Full Article Here…
By Kelly Pickerel sonnen has partnered with Chicago-based home builder Evolutionary Home Builders and Brandon Weiss, healthy home building expert and PHIUS Passive House Certified Builder, to build a sustainable living community that uses sonnen energy technology. The Wildwood of Marengo community in the Chicago area, founded on healthy and clean living, represents an innovation…
By Kelsey Misbrener The DC Sustainable Energy Utility (DCSEU), in partnership with the District Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE), announced plans to work with nine contractors to bring over 7 MW of solar to income-qualified D.C. residents through the Solar for All program this year. Solar for All aims to bring the benefits of…
By Blagojce Krivevski Following on from its 2018 unveiling of three concept cars as its “vision of the mobility of the future”, Renault Group Thursday showcased its vision for shared mobility with three electric concept-cars at VivaTech. To prepare this new era of sustainable mobility for all, Renault is working on four strategic areas of…
By Kelly Pickerel Solar energy provider POWERHOME Solar will begin installing solar panels at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center, the headquarters and practice facility for the Indianapolis Colts, in the upcoming months. “The Colts are committed to decreasing our energy use and becoming more sustainable throughout the organization,” said Pete Ward, Colts chief operating…
By ENEL Foundation Content Contributor Education for sustainability plays a crucial role in changing individual behaviors and pushing for new patterns of production, distribution and consumption. Enel Foundation and ASviS(Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development), ahead of yet another edition of ASviS’ Italian Sustainable Development.. Click headline for full article Read Full Article Here For more…
By pj.livingstone May 2019. My husband and I are interested in co-purchasing some land in west Wales, with a view to building sustainable and beautiful environment with earthships/cob homes in a loosely interdependent community. We are looking for people who like the Aberystwyth area (it’s not far from there) and who can put approx GBP50k…