The prominent advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services has given its recommendation to support Tesla’s $2.3 billion SolarCity acquisition/merger, telling shareholders that Tesla would be able to bridge the funding gap with SolarCity, and also that the acquisition was an important step in the firm’s path to becoming an integrated sustainable energy company.
A new report from Britain’s wind energy trade body has highlighted the massive economic and industrial opportunity offered by the country’s offshore wind energy expertise, and the potential it has to export this expertise to developing offshore wind markets around the world.
Voltia, which is pioneering commercial electric vehicles as a service in Europe, recently unveiled its newest offering — a 2.2 ton, all-electric, urban delivery van dubbed “The Maxi.”
NVIDIA announced that Tesla’s “in-vehicle supercomputer is powered by the NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 AI computing platform… [and it] delivers more than 40 times the processing power of the previous system. It runs a Tesla-developed neural net for vision, sonar, and radar processing.”
Originally published on CleanTechies. Unfazed by the unfavorable decision in an international trade dispute over subsidies for solar power projects using domestically manufactured equipment, the Indian government is looking to offer financial support to domestic manufacturers. According to media reports quoting government sources, India is looking to offer a financial … [continued]
Last month, Silicon Valley startup Sunculture Solar unveiled its solar-plus-storage solution, to Jobsian fanfare. SolPad™ was all over the tech media on the morning of September 22 (here, there, and seemingly everywhere).
You might conclude from its title that The Madhouse Effect, one of the fall’s best book offerings, takes on the US presidential election. You’d be close — the subject does come up repeatedly in the technical and policy discussions — but not quite right. I enjoyed discussing it with the author recently.
The team at Next Kraftwerke (NK) believes it has the keys to the electrical grid of the future — and is well on the way to bringing that vision to reality in the form of what it likes to call a Virtual Power Plant (VPP). Next Kraftwerke’s VPP is essentially a widely distributed network … [continued]
Originally published on Nexus Media. By Jeremy Deaton Even casual viewers of Fox News have seen commercials for companies like Goldline.com. You send them money. They send you gold. It’s a smart pitch to the network’s core daytime audience of people who worry that currency has no intrinsic value. To … [continued]
Competition for Spiderman: researchers create stronger, tougher, electricity-conducting silk by feeding graphene and carbon nanotubes to silkworms.
