Continuing my series on the Renewable Cities opening PechaKucha presentations (see mine, Bárbara Rubim’s, Mark Jacobson’s, Merran Smith’s, and these 5 others if you haven’t yet), below is a presentation from Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian, CleanTechnica readers and the Founding Directors of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI). They discuss the pioneering … [continued]
One of Israel’s largest concentrated solar power project is now one step closer to commissioning, after its developers announced financial closure for the project. Project developer Abengoa has achieved financial closure for the 110 MW Ashalim concentrated solar power project, which they will construct in partnership with Israeli global infrastructure group … [continued]
The team behind the SunnyDay international solar challenge has started an Indiegogo campaign to develop open-source solar solutions. Open-Source Solar? DIY? Yes! The SunnyDay international solar challenge is all about developing open-source solutions for using solar energy. The team behind the event believes that open-source energy solutions promote energy freedom … [continued]
Continuing this series on Renewable Cities PechaKucha presentations, Mark Z Jacobson, a legend in the world of renewable energy research, gave an excellent, information-packed presentation on the opening night of the Renewable Cities Global Learning Forum (see our Renewable Cities archives here). I love that he started by highlighting the insane health … [continued]
Following my latest US electricity capacity report, let’s look at actual electricity generation. As the headline indicates, renewables accounted for 17% (or 17.1% if you want to be slightly more precise) of US electricity production in April, when including a CleanTechnica estimate for rooftop solar electricity production. For the year … [continued]
Wind power and solar power are increasingly the most cost-competitive options for new electricity generation, and the installation numbers for the first 5 months of 2015 are just another way of showing that. Based on data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and SEIA/GTM Research, I’ve just produced my latest … [continued]
As I just wrote, a one-week cleantech tour (and semi-vacation) in the Netherlands put my “link drop” articles on hold for a bit, but I was saving stories along the way. After a couple of weeks, below is a massive list of non-CleanTechnica renewable energy, energy storage, climate, and other green stories … [continued]
As you are probably well aware, the good folks at The Solutions Project have published plans for how each of the 50 states in the US could switch to 100% renewable energy. Importantly, they didn’t just paint a broad stroke — they actually looked at electricity needs by region in 15-minute segments for the … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy by Sophie Vorrath Melbourne-based solar technology start-up RayGen Resources has strengthened its strategic foothold in the booming Chinese market, after sealing a new deal with state-owned renewables giant China Three Gorges allowing for a minimum of 500 MW of capacity to be built using its Australian-made … [continued]
We now have more insights into how the clean-tech economy is doing from this year’s sixth annual US Clean Tech Leadership Index. The index, prepared by Clean Edge, a research and indexing firm founded in 2000, tracks and ranks clean-tech activities in all 50 states and the largest 50 metro … [continued]
