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PlanetSolar, World’s Largest Solar Boat Arrives in New York

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Amber Archangel

Planetsolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, arrived safely in New York on June 17, 2013. She has been transformed into a scientific platform as part of the “PlanetSolar DeepWater” expedition, and has joined by a team of researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), led by Professor Martin Beniston, climatologist and director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the University of Geneva (UNIGE). Even though the crew and scientists aboard had to adjust their schedule … Read More

Smart Grid Market Revenue Will Hit $73 Billion Annually By 2020

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Silvio Marcacci

The global smart grid market will nearly double by 2020, reaching $73 billion in annual revenue and $461 billion in cumulative profit, predicts Navigant Research.

Top US Electric Car City Could Soon Be… (You’re Never Gonna Guess It)

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Nicholas Brown

The top electric car city in the US… San Francisco? LA? New York? Portland? What do you think? Indianapolis, the capital city of the US state Indiana and home to approximately 800,000 people, is interested in having all of the city’s fleet of cars replaced with electric and plugin hybrid (PHEV) ones. This could soon make it the #1 electric car city in the US. After hearing about the announcement, this gave the CEO of … Read More

Interview With Maxwell Technologies: Ultracapacitor-based Energy Storage System

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Guest Contributor

This post first appeared on San Diego Loves Green by Roy Hales A week ago, Maxwell Technologies announced they had been “been awarded a $1.39 million contract by the California Energy Commission’s Research and Development program to fund design and integration of an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system with Soitec’s CPV system located on the campus of University of California, San Diego—one of the nation’s greenest universities— and a second commercial scale system at Soitec’s solar power plant in … Read More

Three Key Features Of Los Angeles’ New Local Solar Program

Posted on June 18, 2013 by John Farrell

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Officially launched in January after years of development, a new CLEAN (feed-in tariff) program from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (the city’s municipal electric utility) promises 100 MW of new local renewable energy by 2016. In absolute size, the program will be among the largest CLEAN programs in the US, but compared to the size of the population it serves, the new LA program ranks behind national leaders like Gainesville, FL, or Vermont … Read More

Work The Wind! 4 Steps To Get Your Project Started

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Dan Thiede, CERTs

Are you interested in doing your own wind project? Let the Clean Energy Project Builder and CERTs help you get started with 4 steps! Step 1: Do your research! Knowing information about wind (what it is, how it works, how to get it) is a key component in your project’s success. Lucky for you, we have already done the hard part! Follow the link to see a list of helpful wind studies. Step 2: … Read More

Merkel Promises To Cut Renewable Energy Subsidies Post-election

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Mridul Chadha

If Chancellor Angela Merkel comes to power after elections in September, Germany may become the latest European country to curb support for renewable energy infrastructure. Amidst the poor economic environment in Europe, a number of countries have pulled back support for the renewable energy sector by either reducing subsidies or introducing taxes on revenues from renewable energy projects. Angela Merkel has promised that she would reduce the $24 billion per year subsidies being provided to renewable … Read More

US Solar To Hit Grid Parity 2014–2017 (+ More Solar PV Charts, Sort Of…)

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Zachary Shahan

Following my article on a GBI Research report about the Global Energy Storage Market to 2020 (April 2013), below is a teaser on another GBI Research report — a “Solar Photovoltaics Power Market to 2020” report (published in October 2012) that it recently just shared with me. (Note: CleanTechnica has a partnership with GBI Research*.) Again, we don’t get to see any of the important numbers from the report (without purchasing it), but there are numerous interesting sample … Read More

Global Energy Storage Market To 2020 (Charts, Sort Of…)

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Zachary Shahan

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CleanTechnica has a partnership with GBI Research to help get more cleantech market research reports into more people’s hands*. GBI Research recently published a new report on the Global Energy Storage Market to 2020 (in April 2013) and passed this one on to me to share with you all. Unfortunately, the company doesn’t reveal too many details in the sample reports, which is all that even we get to view, so I don’t have exciting … Read More

1st Renewable Energy Project In Republic Of Seychelles — 6 MW Wind Farm

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Nathan

The 6 MW Port Victoria Wind Farm just launched on Mahé Island in the Republic of Seychelles. The wind farm consists of eight turbines provided by Masdar and the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD). It is the first large-scale renewable energy project in the Seychelles. The 6 MWs provided by the wind farm represent a full 8% of Mahé Island’s total energy capacity — and it will displace an estimated 5,500 tons of carbon … Read More