On Friday, CleanTechnica brought you news of an exciting commitment to sustainability by big-city mayors in the European Union. Also news last week: Latin American mayors racked up wins for joining the international Compact of Mayors, the world’s largest cooperative city effort to date to implement meaningful, sustainable local actions … [continued]
Strangely and sadly, you won’t find this development covered much in the US news media, but it made a pretty big splash in the rest of the world. Yesterday (Thursday, March 26), leaders of 30 European cities met in Paris to announce common commitments to clean-climate policy. They signed a … [continued]
Originally published on Energy Post. By Karel Beckman In a global study of top academic and research centers in a wide range of sustainable energies, the surprising winner is the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Among industrial innovators the number 1 is engineering company ABB. The in-depth study, conducted by KIC … [continued]
News from Nissan NewsRoom Europe reports that Nissan and Endesa, an Enel Group Subsidiary, plan to work together on a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) system in Madrid, Spain. It will reportedly lead to the first “mass market” vehicle-to-grid (V2G) system. Green Car Congress reports that, at the ongoing Geneva Motor Show, the combo signed their commitment to this … [continued]
Elon Musk this week tweeted news of Tesla Motors’ planned Supercharger expansion for winter 2014–2015 in Europe, with expansion to spread to Madrid. The Tesla Map is being updated to all of Spain and Portugal by the of 2015. It was not updated on the Supercharging site today; however, Tesla … [continued]
Originally published on Gas2. Transportation app Uber is now available in 38 countries, has a market value of over $18 billion, and thanks to a recent wave of European protests, signups for the car service are up 850%. It seems a plan to disrupt commuter cab drivers in London, Paris, Berlin, … [continued]
Mashable blogger Max Knoblauch recently decided to have a bit of fun scrolling through reviews of 10 of the world’s largest subway systems. I’m not sure how many reviews he looked at for each of them, but he shared one pro review and one con review for subway systems in: … [continued]
The EU’s MAGNETIDE project continues to move forward — 14 months into the projected 24-month development program, the gains are becoming apparent. The project — which is intended to result in the development of a purpose-designed generator for wave energy extraction — has managed to reduce the cost of the … [continued]
The Madrid-based renewable energy giant EDP Renovaveis is currently in the early stages of developing a new 30 MW solar PV power plant project to be located in San Bernardino County in California. The project — which represents the Spanish engineering group’s most recent move into the American market — … [continued]
Originally published on 1Sun4All. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon announced yesterday that representatives of the DOE and the South American country of Colombia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate in the development of a Solar Decathlon Latin America and Caribbean competition, which will take place for the first time in Santiago … [continued]
