For a brief look inside the world of the wind industry, the following is a video I filmed of GE’s Andy Holt* talking about the culture of the wind industry and the crowdsourcing of wind turbine development. My initial question was simply about whether or not GE was hoping to use … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Earlier this year, Shell released its most recent future energy scenario report, New Lens Scenarios (check out the PDF here). One of the big highlights, in my eyes, was that one of the scenarios (Oceans) projected that solar energy would become the largest source of energy by … [continued]
Thought Suntech was dead… just because it went bankrupt and all? Not so much. The large, China-based solar PV company just announced that it is launching a new quick-install solar PV module in conjunction with Zep Solar. Notably, Zep Solar was actually bought by SolarCity recently. Its streamlined mounting and grounding products … [continued]
Unbeknownst to most of us, the “connected features” in the Tesla Model S come courtesy of AT&T. While the partnership has existed for awhile, it was just announced to the public last week. This is what’s behind Tesla’s infotainment screen, what allows Tesla to track its cars, and what allows … [continued]
GE and GelaSkins have teamed up to offer more personalized home EV chargers. GE’s residential WattStation electric car charger can now be personalized with your choice of thousands of designs offered by GelaSkins. If none of those are personal enough for you, you can also provide your own design. If you choose … [continued]
Wind power is already extremely cheap — the cheapest option for new electricity in many if not most regions of the world. It is also extremely effective at reducing CO2 emissions and other pollution. But it’s still something like a “teenager” or “young adult” in its development. There’s room for … [continued]
At GE’s recent Mind + Machines 2013 conference*, I had the wonderful opportunity to interview GE’s Andy Holt, the general manager of Renewable Energy Services at GE Energy. The friendly giant (he was very tall, but thankfully also very friendly and funny) answered several technical questions I pitched his way, as … [continued]
In the world of academia, the common structure for writing is to first present a problem or uncertainty and then present how your research responds to that. Academics know not to be influenced by the stated problem or question but to rather wait and see what the findings of the … [continued]
New empirical research out of Spain shows that wind power is very effective at cutting CO2 emissions, even at quite high penetration levels. This is, of course, what many of us would expect, but some people have had the odd idea (or have at least claimed) that wind power plants … [continued]
The Solar Energy Industries Association recently hosted a Google+ Hangout, its “Solar Means Business 2013” Hangout. Much of what was presented has been covered thoroughly on CleanTechnica, so I’m just going to skip that part (but you can watch it all from the beginning here.) But a few parts towards … [continued]
