Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Leia Guccione and Peter Bronski. For years, low-cost solar-plus-battery systems were seen as a distant possibility at best, a fringe technology not likely to be a threat to mainstream electricity delivery any time soon. By far, the limiting factor has been battery costs. … [continued]
National Harbor, MD –The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) [this week] announced that the Agency’s innovative projects are making great strides towards transforming the way Americans use and produce energy. To date, 22 ARPA-E projects have attracted more than $625 million in private-sector follow-on funding after … [continued]
Originally published on The ECO Report. Tesla has released some preliminary plans. The rumours about it looking at sites in New Mexico and Nevada were correct. There are also potential locations in Arizona and Texas. Tesla is making a final site selection and hopes to start construction on the Gigafactory this year. … [continued]
For the last six months, the energy news sphere (perhaps led by the Edison Electric Institute) has been rife with a discussion about the threat to the utility business from distributed energy like local solar, as their customers shift to getting their own power from nearby renewable resources. Reports and … [continued]
For those of you who know your vanadium, the real question about vanadium flow batteries is: where’s the vanadium going to come from? But for now, let’s start with the company American Vanadium, which has announced that the new commercially available CellCube vanadium-based flow battery is now undergoing tests at … [continued]
… of CleanTechnica. (Just be sure to click “Done” at the bottom!) Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world’s leading questionnaire tool. I’ve got plenty of responses to scroll through, but figured it would be nice to give CleanTechnica readers one more chance to chime in on … [continued]
I joined Tesla’s 4th quarter 2013 financial results conference call last night (yesterday afternoon California time). I actually didn’t even think to report on it since there wasn’t really anything unexpected in there. But hey, how can we skip covering an end-of-year Tesla financials report? I’ll start with the numbers. … [continued]
I unveiled our 2014 reader survey late on a Valentine’s Day Friday. I imagine a handful of you missed it (or ignored it) because of that. So, I figured I’d give you another shot to have some genuine influence over CleanTechnica. Take ~2 minutes to complete the following survey (embedded … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. You may know of Sir Richard Branson — he’s the founder and chairman of Virgin Group, a British business tycoon, and a renowned entrepreneur. He has engaged in many aviation adventures, which include his hot air balloon “Virgin Atlantic Flyer” crossing the Atlantic in 1987. A new venture of his … [continued]
Lithium-ion batteries have been the gold standard for powering electric vehicles, but with fuel cells breathing down their necks, the pressure is on to come up with next-generation performance improvements. A team of researchers has come up with a solution based on the structure of a pomegranate, which could combine … [continued]
