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In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Chanan Bos and I sat down with Zac from the hugely popular YouTube show Now You Know. We talked almost entirely about Tesla, but also about the Now You Know show and a few other cleantech topics.
It was the 12th of April. I had waited exactly 3 years and 12 days. That morning, like many before it, I checked the Danish locale of the Tesla Model 3 configurator and there it was: the Standard Range Plus ready to order.
Con Edison will begin supplying ConnectDER smart devices to its customers on Staten Island. After a 2 year trial, it may expand the offer to all 3.5 million customers in New York City and Westchester County.
I’m a little late sharing these highlights, but below are the 20 CleanTechnica articles that were most popular in April. If you missed any of them, note that they are required reading. I don’t want to say you’re going to prison if you don’t read them, but, well …
Researchers in the UK are studying how to democratize the electricity generated by rooftop solar systems by creating peer-to-peer microgrids that operate independently of local utility companies.
Tesla says it is working hard to streamline the process of ordering and installing rooftop solar systems to reduce soft costs that add to the price of solar systems. Online sales and standardized installations will help.
California state funding has created a harvest cornucopia of clean energy programs ranging from solar energy for low income housing to familiarization test drives of electric vehicles. But each state agency has its own set of rules about who can get funding, what kind of matched private funding may be necessary, and how to go about getting access to the funds.
CleanTechnica has had numerous articles on companies and organizations that are supplying off-grid electricity to consumers in Africa. Since I live in western Kenya where many people I know have these systems, this article is to report on these developments from the Kenyan consumer’s point of view.
Elon Musk committed to ramping up Tesla’s efforts to expand its Energy businesses on both the energy storage and the solar side of the equation on the company’s first quarter 2019 investor call earlier this week.