Originally published on Ecotricity. Drivers of electric cars travelled over half a million miles over the last twelve months using Britain’s Electric Highway, it was revealed [last week]. The Electric Highway, Ecotricity’s national network of electricity pumps for electric cars, and the biggest network in Britain, has grown rapidly in … [continued]
Originally published on Renew Economy. By Sophie Vorrath & Giles Parkinson Rooftop solar is an unstoppable force in the Australian market that will drive the nation’s total installed solar capacity well past 20 gigawatts, regardless of any attempts by the incumbent utilities to thwart its development, Bloomberg New Energy Finance … [continued]
Natcore Technology’s black silicon wafers have now been processed into actual working solar cells in a production line, rather than a laboratory setting, for the first time. This has been done by one of the world’s largest photovoltaic manufacturers, which is located in China’s Hunan province. Five batches of the … [continued]
Originally published on Energy & Policy Institute. Today the very big technical news for me is dual-doppler meteorology radar applied to create very high precision wind maps of operational wind farms. Brian Hirth of the Texas Tech University and his team have applied technology typically used for high-accuracy real time imaging … [continued]
Originally published by the ECOreport. Amidst a flurry of energy announcements, the White House also released a video called “The Solar Panels” today. The video was the backdrop to a series of announcements made today. A solar commitment, from the White House to America. “Solar panels in the White House … [continued]
Originally published on Energy & Policy Institute. Meredith MacDonald kicks off this day’s update. She’s a wind turbine deployment tech in Ontario. She worked night shift as a security guard contracted to keep an eye on local wind farms at night during construction. She loved wind energy so much she … [continued]
The White House video above doesn’t note that President Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House decades ago that were later removed by the Reagan administration, but I guess they didn’t want to get too political with that. It is nice that the Obama administration finally got solar … [continued]
Ever get so excited about a car that you can’t contain it, and state all sorts of things that really seem to stretch the truth? Yeah, me neither, but that appears to be the case in this recent video review of the Cadillac ELR from TFLCar.com’s Roman Mica. While I … [continued]
Originally published on Into the Wind. By Peebles Squire At this year’s WINDPOWER conference, my feet have obediently carried me to all the meetings, workshops, and receptions I’ve needed to see. One thing I’d yet to do, though, was take a comprehensive tour of the showroom floor. Though weary, my … [continued]
Originally published on Into the Wind. By Peebles Squire The turbines have been tested, the judges have weighed in on their engineering, and now, all that remains is what some would consider the hardest part of the process: selling your product. The 10 teams in the Department of Energy’s Collegiate Wind … [continued]
