The Victorian town of Newstead is seeking proposals from potential project partners who could help refine its plan to reach 100 per cent renewable energy within 5 years, and which could act as a blue-print for other towns in the state to follow.
To date, Tesla Model S and Model X vehicle owners have curtailed at least 340,000,000 lbs of greenhouse gas emissions, according to new analysis from Plugless.
Last December, Canada thrilled the world’s environmental community by announcing its return to the fight against climate change. After its dazzling performance at Paris, the newly elected Trudeau government promptly returned to energy policies of the preceding administration.
After a longer-than-expected summer break, Cleantech Talk is back! With Zachary increasingly busy (alas, ever-expanding cleantech media empires don’t autonomously oversee themselves), this season’s co-hosting duties are now being shared by Matthew Klippenstein and Nicolas Zart.
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While editing an in-depth article on Arizona solar energy this week, this line caught my attention: “With over 375 solar companies serving the value chain in Arizona, there are more than 6,900 people employed in the state’s solar market.” 6,900 jobs in a state like Arizona is a big deal, and the solar industry is just getting started!
Smart cities are likely to be an integral part of the future energy revolution, tying together new technologies for energy generation and storage, vehicles, and smart lighting, to increase energy efficiency and reduce city emissions. Totem Power, a New York-based startup unveiled this week what they are calling the world’s first energy solution to reimagine and redesign smart utilities.
Companies are bringing alternative energy business models to deliver “personal power” to energy-poor communities. These models often rely on PV solar as the core technology, coupled with innovative financing models, and often use cellular infrastructure, which is often fairly well-developed and accepted.
The prominent electric vehicle charging solutions company eMotorWerks will be supplying 1,000 free smart, cloud-connected charging units to Sonoma Clean Power customers as part of a new program from the Californian utility company, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica and EV Obsession.
President-elect Donald Trump is not such a big fan of clean power, but the Pentagon sure is. That’s especially true of the US Navy. The Department of the Navy has been leveraging its history of maritime innovation to make the case for transitioning to biofuel, solar energy, wind energy, energy storage, energy efficiency, and any other technological edge that can support its position as the most powerful fighting force on the seven seas — and make its bases more secure and resilient, too.
