Scotland’s renewable energy industry body has concluded that Scottish renewable energy expertise is being sought after around the world, with businesses involved in projects in more than 40 countries around the world.
Here’s how renewable energy contracts work to protect ratepayers, utilities, and renewable energy developers through the power purchase agreement (PPA):
Elon Musk believes deeply in vertical integration. Maybe that marks him as a control freak or maybe it just means he is a smart businessman. Over the past year, Tesla has added Riviera Tool & Die to its list of corporate acquisitions and changed its name to Tesla Michigan. That brought control over many aspects of the manufacturing process in-house. While other companies rely on “just in time” relationships with suppliers, Tesla wants to exert greater control over the quality and scheduling of its supply chain.
After succumbing to emerging nations and falling down the last Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index published by EY, European countries have rebounded in the latest edition, published this week.
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]
MIT researchers win their energy storage bet: a material known for poor conductivity can be successfully deployed to replace carbon in supercapacitors.
As part of a larger €7.3 billion investment package, the European Investment Bank has approved more than €1.3 billion in new loans for resource efficiency and climate related investment. The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced mid-September that it had approved €7.3 billion in new loans for investment in strategic infrastructure, the environmental and … [continued]
The global offshore wind market reached nearly 15 GW in total capacity by the end of 2015, according to new figures from Navigant Research. In a new report from global research firm Navigant Research analyzing the global offshore wind market, the total capacity figures by the end of 2015 for … [continued]
Originally published on Carbon Brief. By Simon Evans Germany’s “Energiewende,” which translates as energy transition, conjures up images of bright, sunlit fields scattered with wind turbines and solar panels. But to its critics, it is a story of continued reliance on coal. Both stories are illustrated in Carbon Brief’s new … [continued]
I originally published the second part of this article (reflections on how Trump hacked his own election chances) over on Planetsave, as I figured we didn’t need to go on about that here on CleanTechnica, but then something else came up that made me bring the article over here as well … but first with a … [continued]
