The Great Electricity Transmission Debate — How Much Is Enough?
Many people want to build new transmission lines for renewable energy like solar and wind. We dive into the issues, pro and con, on this matter.
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3 US Funding Pools Every Industrial Project Developer Should Know About
A primer on public loan guarantees, grants, and tax credits for US clean industrial projects.
New US Hydrogen Strategy: Wrong Department, Wrong Authors
The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department. It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. It fails Rumelt’s test for the first thing that makes a good strategy, and so its principles and actions will be failures as well.
Jigar Shah Talks About $504 Million Hydrogen Facility, Small Nuclear, & US Challenges
Shah’s perspective is that we don’t have the ability to go into Sim City and design whatever we want. We have to work with pre-existing facilities.
Jigar Shah Has $40 Billion To Lend Green Energy Projects Via US DOE
Shah’s perspective is that investing 3-5 times more in transmission and expecting improvements in battery storage is a risky strategy. Shah is bullish on nuclear, especially putting new SMRs on retiring coal plants where transmission is already built.
Big Automakers Grudgingly Buy Into EVs. Oil Majors Still Lag Behind
Small, nimble startups are leading the shift to electric cars, while big U.S. automakers and oil majors are struggling to keep up.
Tesla & SolarCity Announce Voting Date For Acquisition — 10 Big SolarCity Stories From Recent…
Moments ago, Tesla emailed CleanTechnica with information regarding the next step of Tesla’s SolarCity acquisition. There is not much to add regarding the announcement itself, so it will be pasted in full further down, but I think it’s useful to quickly summarize some of our previous articles on this topic to … [continued]
What Tesla & SolarCity Could Offer Together
Editor’s Note: A couple of years ago, when I created a list of 17 top cleantech champions, I actually put both Jigar Shah (author of this piece) and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a tie at #1. Jigar has a wealth of knowledge from the solar industry, as well as … [continued]
Elon Musk To California: Mandate Volkswagen To Produce EVs
This week, a long list of CEOs, including Elon Musk, cousin and SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive, Michale Brune (Executive Director of Sierra Club), and Jigar Shah (President, Generate Capital co-founder and regular guest writer here at CleanTechnica) wrote to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to request an intervention in regards … [continued]
Tesla Drive Units, Ford’s $4.5 Billion EV Push, & Our Renewable Energy Future (Cleantech Talk…
Originally published on EV Obsession. In the latest episode of our Cleantech Talk podcast (embedded below), Kyle Field, Matthew Klippenstein, and I talk about early Tesla Model S drive unit problems and the implications for future models and Tesla as a whole; Ford’s big $4.5 billion electric vehicle push, and … [continued]
