Beth Bond speaks with Zan Dubin-Scott, who is heading up National Drive Electric Week. With 50 locations already announced, more sites are being looked for. If you have an interest, contact Zan to set up your own EV drive site. Listen To Energy Internet Radio Stations with Talk Solar on … [continued]
International Off-Grid Renewable Energy Conference and Exhibition, Manila, June 16, 2014 (IRENA) The efforts of the fledgling—but remarkably effective—International Off-Grid Renewable Energy Conference and Exhibition are paying off again this week. To more than 400 IOREC delegates in Manila, the International Renewable Energy Agency, Asian Development Bank, and Alliance for … [continued]
We’ve got another podcast double header this weekend. Beth Bond in this episode speaks with Bob Stojanovic, Director of Solar Power for ABB North America. I had the pleasure to meet Bob in Nevada last year, and was surprised and happy to hear that he was a big fan of CleanTechnica. … [continued]
EV drivers sped past a big milestone recently, surpassing two billion electric kilometres in their plug-in vehicles. That’s 2,000,000,000 km – or about 1,250,000,000 miles. And that’s just the Nissan Leaf and Tesla owners, and the electric-only km’s / miles covered by Chevy Volt drivers. When we factor in the … [continued]
This CleanTechnica/TalkSolar podcast has Beth Bond interviewing Bright Harvest Solar Co-Founder Joel Lusk. Lusk moved away from a career in the computer-aided design and graphics industry in order to jump into solar. Way back in 200o, Lusk designed and built his first solar power system. He has since then managed and built hundreds … [continued]
Critical. Re: Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles/Environment. This letter deals with the three fundamental flaws in the promotion of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles that seeks to exploit public concern for the environment and to trigger a profoundly counterproductive use of public funds in paving the way for carbon-intensive fossil … [continued]
We’re covering the San Diego leg of the 2014 Sustainable Brands conference, what is growing into the largest and most important sustainability conference in the world. They now have events in Istanbul, Rio, Buenos Aires, Boston, Kuala Lumpur, and London. This conference draws some of the largest brands in the world to discuss the latest innovations in sustainability as it pertains to their companies.
Altaeros and their airborne blimp wind generator have benefited from a reasonable amount of press over the past few weeks. They had asked CleanTechnica to provide coverage as well, but when pressed for more details on the technology, were unwilling to provide them. The airborne wind energy space was given overview … [continued]
We had a special situation this week with the DOE’s Minh Le jumping on a podcast to discuss the DOE’s SunShot Initiative. Minh Le is the director of the Solar Energy Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, where he helps manage and balance the portfolio … [continued]
What do solar consumers want? Paula Mints knows. Paula Mints is the Founder and Chief Market Research Analyst of the global solar market research firm SPV Market Research. Ms. Mints began her solar market research career in 1997 with Strategies Unlimited. In 2005 she left Strategies Unlimited for Navigant where … [continued]
