Covid-19 May Speed Up Low-Carbon Shift, Google Says
In a Q& A with BloombergNEF, Google’s Jeff Hamel, Director of Industry Partnerships at Google, shared his thoughts on how the coronavirus may speed up the low-carbon shift.
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Opower & Eversource Energy Expand Agreement For New Suite Of Demand-Side-Management & Customer-Engagement Tools
Popular cloud-based software provider for the utility industry Opower has greatly expanded its agreement with Eversource Energy for the delivery of a new suite of demand-side-management and customer-engagement tools, according to a new press release. The new software suite will reportedly include elements of Agile EE, Opower’s next-generation Energy Efficiency … [continued]
Opower And Nest Lead Home Energy Management Vendors
A new Leaderboard Report from Navigant Research identifies Opower and Nest as the two leading home energy management vendors. Specifically, Navigant concluded that “Opower sustains success with a leading suite of solutions, while Google’s Nest Labs innovates and expands its home energy management capabilities.” “While hardware is certainly an important part … [continued]
Average Price of Solar in US, Texas Wind Success… (Clean Electricity Link Drop)
Haven’t gotten enough solar, wind, energy storage, climate, and other green news lately? Here’s more good work from around the interwebs: Solar & Storage Average Price of Going Solar in US Dropped 50% in 5 Years Net Metering Review: Value of Solar Energy Higher Than Retail Electric Rates Financing Is The Key To … [continued]
NCES 7.0 Summary Report (+ Full Speeches From Hillary Clinton & Harry Reid)
The 7th Annual National Clean Energy Summit was just held September 4th at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. You ask why Mandalay Bay is significant? Well, its convention center, where the event was held, has a huge roof and they have loaded it up with solar panels. Photo Credit: … [continued]
Opower Eyeing The Community Solar Market
Opower — up until now a software-as-a-service company that partners with utilities around the world to promote energy efficiency — is now eyeing the distributed solar energy market as well, according to a recent announcement. The announcement comes on the heels of the company’s successful release of its fifth-generation software … [continued]
The Golden Sharing-Economy Effect: Why Electric Utilities Will Change More In Next 10 Years Than…
By Jeff Ray, CEO, Ventyx Seeing vehicles from Uber and Lyft, the car-sharing services, cruising the streets of major American cities gets me excited about what could happen to the industry I serve – electric utilities – in this new sharing economy. Sharing has already disrupted – to the point of destruction – music, … [continued]
Cleantech Sector Is Growing Fast, Yet Cost Drops Lead To Renewable Energy Investment Decline
Originally published on World Resources Institute. By Letha Tawney, Bharath Jairaj and Xuege (Cathy) Lu Investors worldwide spent less on renewable energy and related technologies—such as smart meters, electric vehicles, and storage—last year than in previous years. Global investments in renewable energy fell to $214 billion, down 14 percent from 2012. … [continued]
The Most Impressive Comeback Story You Haven’t Heard
By Ross Chanin & Emilee Pierce If you read the tech press, you know the scoop: Google just bought Nest Labs (the maker of smart thermostats and smoke detectors) for $3.2 billion. For context, that’s more than three times the amount that Facebook paid for Instagram in last year’s blockbuster and Google’s second largest acquisition to … [continued]
17 Cleantech Champions
There are actually thousands of cleantech champions out there, and many of them are CleanTechnica readers. I was actually a bit hesitant to make this list because of that — there are going to be a lot of people not on this list that really could be. However, in honor … [continued]
