2012 has been a pretty notable year for electric vehicles. For one, more EVs have been sold this year than in any year in history — but that’s rather expected, isn’t it? Beyond that fact, which will likely be repeated for many years to come, let’s have a quick … [continued]
According to the recent announcement, leading solar inverter manufacturer SMA is all set to acquire a majority stake in Chinese inverter company Jiangsu Zeversolar New Energy Co., Ltd. SMA will get 72.5% stake in the Jiangsu Zeversolar New Energy Co., Ltd. which will provide opportunity to SMA to get … [continued]
JinkoSolar, one of the worlds’ top solar panel makers, along with state-run business Jinchuan Group are going to create a 200 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic solar farm in the Gansu province of China. Located in the city of Jinchang, the new PV farm, which will be one of the largest independently … [continued]
Energy generation from wind is on target to beat natural gas in 2012, thanks to a mad dash by wind producers to finish projects, as the wind tax credit is set to expire on January 1st. As of November 30th, preliminary numbers have 6,579 megawatts (MW) of new wind … [continued]
For some reason, there hasn’t been a lot of news in the past few days…? But there’s been a bit. Here’s a quick cleantech and climate change news roundup (head on over to our homepage for more news): Solar Power AE-AMD Renewable Energy And Tenesol/SunPower Begin Work On Two … [continued]
Here’s a statement from the BlueGreen Alliance on the ‘fiscal cliff’ action Congress & Obama need to take: BlueGreen Alliance Statement Congress and the President face a stark choice in the policies being offered to address our current crises – a choice between austerity and shared prosperity. The bottom line: Austerity … [continued]
It looks like Nissan is spreading some holiday love towards its EV customers this holiday season. The Japanese auto manufacturer (via the financing department, Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation) is offering a $9,775 cash back deal on the Nissan Leaf, according to Autoblog Green. The deal, which started in early December, ends … [continued]
Stefan Larus Stefansson, Iceland’s ambassador to Japan, recently gave a lecture in Tokyo about the very high geothermal potential in Japan. He said that if Japan were to invest in fully realizing its geothermal potential, the country could replace 25 nuclear reactors. He used his home country as an … [continued]
I briefly interviewed Donn Pendergrass, the CEO of ATI Casting. ATI Casting is a firm headquartered in La Porte, Indiana that manufactures customer-specified gray and ductile iron castings, some of which are for wind turbines. Mr. Pendergrass made some interesting comments about the state of the wind industry and the … [continued]
A major thin-film solar panel manufacturer, Stion Corp., recently announced that it had raised around $25 million to be used to increase the startup’s production level. The financing was led by Khosla Ventures and included nearly all of the company’s existing investors. “We may end up at the end … [continued]
