Sonnenbatterie, Germany’s market leader for residential energy storage, has launched a community energy trading platform, sonnenCommunity, aimed at enabling trading of surplus power from solar PV coupled with its battery systems. In addition, the company has rebranded its business platform. The sonnenCommunity According to company press information, every household in … [continued]
Every day brings another headline about a bad study making false claims about electric cars, another well-known-enough person sneering at them, or another video of someone rolling coal all over an electric car. What makes these people and the legions of people who believe them and cheer them on tick? … [continued]
Compared to gas, diesel, or electric options, hydrogen distribution and fueling will be more expensive, lose a lot of hydrogen, be harder to use, be dangerous in a way people aren’t familiar with, and won’t deliver any environmental benefits to speak of. Yet major automotive vendors and some politicians continue … [continued]
I was lucky this year to get a very exclusive interview with the CEO of Masdar while in Abu Dhabi for Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. I spent about 15 minutes with him trying to get to the roots of Masdar and its aims. I first asked Dr Ahmad Belhoul about the … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. The state of New York provides a handful of solar power incentives, depending on where the solar power system is to be installed. For example, if it is to be located in the Con Edison service area, the incentive for a residential system would be between 20¢ … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Kaitlyn Bunker, Ph.D., Erik G. Fowler, & Christa Owens Michelet The U.S. is going through a major energy revolution—clean-energy investments totaled a staggering $52 billion in 2014 alone—and communities are at the forefront. Citizens are increasingly asking their cities to develop and act on … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Bjorn Lomborg is at it again. The notorious climate contrarian – a favourite of Australia’s Coalition government – is writing a daily blog from the Paris climate talks and his bed-rock argument is a familiar one: that wind and solar energy are pretty much useless. In … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. PARIS: If coal is good for humanity, then someone has forgotten to tell the world’s poorest countries. In a strongly worded statement that came out on the first day of talks at the Paris climate summit, the leaders of 30 of the world’s poorest countries said … [continued]
Spanish wind energy giant Gamesa has boosted its involvement in North America by joining the American Business Act on Climate Pledge and committing further to Mexico. One of the world’s leading wind energy manufacturers, Gamesa made two announcements on December 1 to coincide with the COP21 United Nations climate negotiations … [continued]
Internet megalith Google has made its largest ever renewable energy purchase by acquiring 842 MW of renewable energy capacity to power its data centers. The internet giant announced on Thursday that it had made the “largest, and most diverse” purchase of renewable energy projects “by a non-utility company,” putting the … [continued]
