Tesla Wins Again, Bicycle Rental Made Easy, First Solar Leads US Solar Installations… (Cleantech News Roundup)

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Here’s some top clean energy, dirty energy, and climate change news from the past couple weeks (beyond what we’ve already reported on):

Clean Transport

EVs

• Tesla Lawsuit Over Massachusetts Dealerships Dismissed A Second Time
• New Ford Fiesta ECOnetic Van Offers 71 mpg US
• Mitsubishi Sets Outlander PHEV Debut for Jan 24 in Japan
• Audi R8 e-Tron Back On Track
• Cadillac ELR Teased One More Time Before Official Reveal
• NHTSA Proposes Minimum-Noise Rule for Electric and Hybrid Cars
• UK Electric Car Sales Accelerated in 2012
• eBay Find: Deal of the Year on Hybrid High Mobility Scout Mongrel?
• Pike Research ranks ChargePoint, DBT as top EV charging equipment supply companies
• Zero Motorcycles Helps Deliver Tax Credits For Electric Motorcycles
• Fiscal Cliff Deal Extends/Improves 12 Alt-Energy Credits
• Nissan Begins U.S. Assembly Of 2013 Leaf Electric Vehicle And Batteries
• Video: Spanish Utility Company Hopes To Bring Wireless Fast-Charging To The Masses

 

Bicycles

• Liquid Aims to Make Bicycle Rental Easy
• Cycle Paths & City Traffic 1945-1995 in UK, Denmark, Germany
• Bicycle Tube Dispenser in Copenhagen
• Workshops Announced for National Bike Summit

 
Biofuels (Not Always So Clean)

• Biofuels Cause Pollution, Not as Green as Thought — Study
• Fiscal Cliff Deal Extends/Improves 12 Alt-Energy Credits

 

Clean Power

Wind Power

• Vestas Awarded Service & Maintenance Contract for 121 Wind Turbines in Iowa, USA
• French Wind Power Covers Record 10 Percent of Demand
• Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. Announces Acquisition of 109.5MW Shady Oaks Wind Power Facility
• Vestas Signs90 MW Purchase Agreement
• Vestas Receives 90MW Order Under Enel Green Power’s Global Supply Agreement
• Vestas Receives 54MW Order in Mexico
• Scottish Water Plans 54MW Wind Farm in Self-Sufficiency Push

 
Solar Power

• First Solar Leads U.S. in Solar Installations
• Electronics Bazaar Unveils 20 Leading Solar Companies in India
• Canadian Solar Project Named POWER-GEN International 2012 SolarProject of the Year
• Mitsubishi Acquires 50% Stake in 115MW French Solar Plant
• First Solar Acquires Chilean Project Developer Solar Chile
• Clean Power Finance Hires Burnham Energy Executive Greg Sellers as New Vice President of Field Operations
• Recurrent Energy Brings 38MW PV Project Online
• Canadian Solar Completes Purchase of Two Solar Power Projects Totaling 24 MW (DC) from SunEdison
• First Solar & Intermolecular Prep Disruptive New Approaches to CdTe Thin-Film Advancements
• Arista Power Announces Launch Of Community Solar Purchasing Program For Genesee County, New York
• Chile: 400 MW of Project Applications Submitted
• Concentrated Solar Power with Thermal Energy Storage Can Help Utilities’ Bottom Line, Study Shows
• Under Tamil Nadu Solar Policy 2012, 92 Developers Bid for 105 Projects Totalling 499 MW
• German Investment Company Acquires 50MW Solar Farm

 
Solar + Wind

• How Wind & Solar Complement Each Other in California
• 25% wind and PV in December
• Big Picture on German Electricity: Renewable Replacing Nuclear

 
Biomass

• China to Invest Over $22 Billion in Biomass Energy Sector by 2017

 

Other

Energy Efficiency

• Energy Benchmarking Key to Realizing $9 Billion in Savings in Apartments and Condos: Benefits for Owners and Renters
• Frontiers of Energy Efficiency: Next Generation Programs Reach for High Energy Savings

 
Smart Grid

• The Role of Smart Grids in Germany

 
Nuclear

• Work Restarts on China’s Biggest Nuclear Power Plant: Xinhua
• Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for December 28th, 2012 to January 3rd, 2013

 
Climate Change

• Video: 2012 Was The Year Climate Change Got Real
• Major Cuts to Surging CO2 Emissions Are Needed Now & Not Down the Road
• ‘Sprawling Heat Wave Of Historical Proportions’ Brings ‘Horrendous’ Wildfires To Australia
• Tell President Obama To Back Away From The Climate Cliff
• Farewell, 2012. You Taught Us Much.
• 2012 Is The Year Climate Change Got Real

 
Oil & Gas

• Hans-Josef Fell and Oliver Krischer on Peak Oil
• Shale Gas Uncertainty: How an Industry Talking Point Misses the Mark