Chernobyl has been reclaimed to some degree this week as a long-awaited plan to install solar at the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history has become a reality. The new solar park at the Chernobyl reactor location was officially opened on Friday, three decades after the nuclear meltdown at the same location.
Capricorn Investment Group (CIG) reached out to CleanTechnica with a request to re-publish their open letter to the new CEO of GE, Mr. Lawrence Culp. The letter urges the company to aggressively invest its resources into clean technologies.
Last week was crazy — the Tesla SEC lawsuit settlement, Tesla’s massive quarterly sales record, our first monthly #Pravduh, and more. As a result, I never shared the most popular CleanTechnica stories of September. So, in case you are curious, here were the 20 stories in September that ruled the odd and quirky land of CleanTechnica (pageviews following titles).
Some people like “Tesla killer” articles. I don’t know who exactly (other than a few shorts I won’t name in the hopes they don’t come over to this site to comment again). But to most of us, it’s more fun to more realistically explain why Tesla is the one destined to crush the competition in the coming years. One such story stole the show last week.
Tesla has just published rules and prizes of the newest version of its referral program. We’ve spotted some fun and exciting details.
Solar import tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration in January are expected to cost the average residential customer $960 per solar system, adding up to what is essentially a $236.5 million tax imposed on American solar customers.
CleanTechnica spent some quality time with the folks over at sonnen while at the 2018 Solar Power International (SPI) show in Anaheim, California, and was absolutely blown away by the category-defining sonnen ecoLinx residential energy storage, demand response, and automation solution it debuted earlier last month.
California’s small solar owners pay for the transmission of electricity they don’t use, but relief is on the way.
Since its acquisition by Australian banking giant Macquarie Group from the UK Government in August of 2017, the Green Investment Group has arranged for or invested £1.6 billion of capital into clean energy projects, according to the Group’s first Progress Report since privatization.
International energy storage giant Centrica has expanded its solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) footprint on the west coast of the US with the acquisition of Vista Solar. We spoke with Stephen Prince, head of Centrica Business Solutions for North America about why the acquisition of Vista Solar made sense for Centrica and what it hints at for the future.
