How Have Expectations For Useful Life Of Utility-Scale PV Plants In The US Changed Over…
New research from Berkeley Lab outlines how the useful life and operating expenses of utility-scale photovoltaic plants have leveled.
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The Next Big Solar Technology? #Intersolar2020
Disruptive advances in solar technology are unusual, with industry-wide design improvements often taking place in very small increments. These small changes create the buzz at solar trade shows like Intersolar North America, which is wrapping up this week in San Diego.
Green New Deals For The World Are Green Good Deals
The Earth is rapidly approaching 1.5°C global warming, air pollution kills over 7 million people worldwide each year, and diminishing fossil fuel resources portend social instability. Yet, recently, world leaders at the United Nations Madrid climate talks failed to agree on a path forward. The core of the problem is the belief by some leaders that solving global warming will be expensive and drain the economy of their country. However, new research indicates that this belief is incorrect.
100% WWS Part 3: Jacobson’s New Study Leans Into The Green New Deal
While Jacobson’s latest Stanford study on 100% renewables by 2050 will draw fire for leaning into the Green New Deal, it strongly supports that policy.
100% WWS Part 2: Jacobson’s Latest Study Covers Storage, Transmission, & More
Jacobson’s latest study carefully uses with current technologies and currently available resources for storage and transmission. The latest evidence is that there are much cheaper alternatives than his team models, underselling the potential.
100% WWS Part 1: Jacobson’s New Study Displaces 99.7% Fossil Energy With Massive Savings
100% renewables for 143 countries covering 99.7% of global energy carbon emissions is very inexpensive compared to business as usual in Jacobson’s latest.
Heliogen Is Bill Gates’ Latest Venture That Is Only Good For Oil & Gas –…
The first article covered the first two points, showing that tying this to, for example, a single reasonably sized cement plant would require roughly 4,000 times the space, and that decoupling energy creation from demand would provide substantially more flexibility and higher value. Now we’ll step through the remaining three problems.
Heliogen Is Bill Gates’ Latest Venture That Is Only Good For Oil & Gas –…
Bill Gates seems to love to invest in things that aren’t going to make much of a difference to climate change but that are good for the fossil fuel industry. The latest is Heliogen, a company which uses machine learning to make solar ovens hotter and more reliable.
Array Technologies Selected For One Of The Largest Bifacial Solar Projects In Australia
Bifacial solar cells and panels are moving more seriously into play now thanks to cost drops and efficiency improvements. A bifacial solar panel is essentially a solar panel that can collect energy from the front side and the rear side (a normal monofacial panel only collects energy from one side). Array Technologies boosts that technology even further with solar tracking technology, capturing much more sunlight than a normal solar array.
Solar, Storage, & EV Charging: The Holy Trinity Of Home Energy Management At #SPI2019
Solar Power International landed in Salt Lake City, Utah this year and CleanTechnica was on the ground meeting with the change makers, the disruptors, the doers, the movers, and the shakers. We’ve been diving into some of the companies we talked with, but having covered SPI for several years now, we wanted to highlight one of the newer arrivals at the show: electric vehicles.
