The top CleanTechnica stories of the week brought a surprise this week — there were no Tesla stories in the top 3! I don’t remember the last time that happened. 😛
Furthermore, solar power swept the top 4! With the quickly growing consumer EV market, it’s been a long time since solar dominated the top of the rankings. I was hit with a bit of a flashback looking at the numbers this week. 😀
The Energy Department packs the first 100 days of the Trump Administration with good news about solar, wind and other renewables — coal, not so much
CleanTechnica and GridHub jointly organized three conferences last year — in Berlin (Germany), Leipzig (Germany), and then Wroclaw (Poland). We had wonderful attendees, fascinating presentations and panel discussions, great partners, and a ton of fun. So, we decided to launch a big series of conferences in the coming year to keep the cleantech inspiration rolling.
National Grid tweeted early Friday morning that it expected April 21 to be the first coal free day in the UK since the Industrial Revolution.
The future of the Indian wind energy sector remains bright and is expected to easily achieve the installed capacity targets announced by the government by 2022, the chairman of one of the leading wind energy companies in India has stated.
The first large-scale offshore wind energy project to be developed in Brittany, and one of the first in France, has moved a step closer towards construction after receiving all three administrative authorisations required to construct and operate.
Digital controls from GE Power can lower emissions from electricity generation enough to equal removing 250 million cars from the world’s roads.
New figures published by the American Wind Energy Association show that the US wind energy industry added jobs at over 9 times faster than the overall US economy in 2016, reaching 102,500 jobs in all, helping to install more than 8 GW of new wind power and help investment reach more than $14 billion.
Enel Green Power has begun construction of the 300 megawatt Red Dirt wind farm in Oklahoma, US, which upon completion will sell its electricity under two long-term power purchase agreements — one with Grand River Dam Authority, and the second with new corporate partner, T-Mobile.
Rick Perry has directed the Department of Energy to do a 60-day study of the U.S. electric grid. While the memo was not publicized, it was obtained by various news sources. I was unable to find it online, but I managed to get a copy and put up as a page on my blog for those who want to see.
