Originally posted at ilsr.org In February, I visited the folks at Sustainable Tucson in Arizona who are puzzling over their monopoly electricity provider’s attitude toward solar energy. Tucson Electric Power acquires just 4% of its electricity from renewable resources (and over 70% from coal), despite being at the heart of … [continued]
Originally published on Lapsed Physicist. By Allan R. Hoffman I returned recently from a two-week visit to Scotland, my wife’s home country. She and I are now the owners of a flat (apartment in Americanese) in East Kilbride, near Glasgow, that makes visiting with her family much easier. Another exciting … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Laurie Guevara-Stone A recent report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance and several partners shows that renewable energy adoption is growing in the world’s emerging economies nearly twice as fast than in industrialized nations. Not only are renewable energy technologies now cost competitive with fossil … [continued]
Indian states are gearing up to develop ambitious ultra mega solar power projects in association with the Solar Energy Corporation of India. The state of Uttar Pradesh has signed agreements with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for installation of four solar PV power projects with a total capacity of … [continued]
The new bladeless micro wind turbine from Vortex Bladeless looks like a popsicle stick, but since SunEdison and Harvard University are interested so are we.
At least 900 workers are expected to be employed by Duke Energy via solar energy construction projects in North Carolina during peak construction this summer, according to recent reports. These 900 workers will be split amongst the three solar projects that the utility giant is currently constructing in the coastal … [continued]
Those who take the Wall Street Journal for gospel miss a lot of what’s going on with US energy, says Denise Robbins of Media Matters for America. Too bad they probably won’t get it if they stick to that source and ignore all the others. The Journal published an editorial two weeks ago that … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy by Sophie Vorrath The solar energy output from more than 5500 distributed PV systems across Australia can now be monitored in real time after the launch of an updated solar mapping service by the Australian PV Institute (APVI). The newly enhanced version of APVI’s Live Solar … [continued]
AGL Energy, one of Australia’s largest energy utilities and one of the country’s largest polluters, has announced Friday that it intends to start on a path that will conclude in 2050 with complete decarbonization. Which I can only therefore assume means something horribly wrong is about to happen in Australia, … [continued]
Based in Monrovia, California, CODA Energy makes commercial and industrial energy storage solutions. CEO Paul Detering generously answered some questions for this interview with CleanTechnica. 1. Why did you select lithium-iron phosphate (rather than lithium-ion) batteries? The lithium-ion iron phosphate (LiFePO4) rechargeable battery cells in the CODA Core energy storage system … [continued]
