If you haven’t yet put down some cash in order to help at-risk, underprivileged high school youth get a little boost from the Messner Foundation crew* (er… in order to potentially win a Tesla Model S 70D), you’ve got a week left to do so. The 2015 Tesla 70 kWh Dual Motor … [continued]
The latest press release from The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy emphasized significant economic benefits in the Sunshine State that could result from lifting solar policy barriers. “Economic Growth Potential of Solar Could Have a Sunny Future in Florida” notes that Florida could move forward from being one of the … [continued]
Originally published on The Climate Reality Project. Here’s what’s really happening with Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions commitment and why it’s way too weak for any developed nation to put forward with a straight face. For many of us living in the US, there’s a whole lot to admire about Canada, … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Nissan will be pulling out all the stops for the upcoming UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) Champions League soccer/football final in Berlin tomorrow — with regard to electric vehicles anyways — as part of its partnership with the noted sports competition and organization. The company will … [continued]
The western Indian state of Maharashtra has announced its new renewable energy policy through which it plans to achieve an installed renewable energy capacity of 14.4 GW by the end of the next 5 years. The state government of Maharashtra has devised an impressive policy to promote the expansion of … [continued]
The French gas utility named Engie (formerly GDF Suez) is developing new geothermal projects in the Paris, France, area to the tune of 50 MW, which will bring the company’s total geothermal capacity there to 100 MW. A single plant, Noisy-le-Sec, has a capacity of 10 MW. So when will … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. OutBack Power is the first company to have its battery-backed inverters approved for use by Hawaiian Electric Companies (HECO), according to a press release on Business Wire. Electricity costs in Hawaii are the highest in the nation at 37 cents per kilowatt-hour — triple the national … [continued]
Originally published on the Lenz Blog I recall that adviser of the Mongolian President Tsagaan called for Mongolia to become “the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy” a couple of years ago. I also expected at the time that Saudi Arabia might be interested in getting there first. Now there is … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Experts say new housing estates may be built that do not connect to the grid, offering instead free electricity, and even free EVs to residents. Meanwhile, numerous towns are looking how to buy back their grid. Imagine this: Newly built housing estates that are not even … [continued]
A ten-day meeting to hone the draft text of the Paris 2015 universal climate agreement has begun in Bonn, Germany. Presidents of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Lima COP20 (Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, the deft and diplomatic Environment Minister of Peru) and the upcoming Paris COP21 meetings (Laurent Fabius, who is … [continued]
