3,350 MW worth of new solar PV projects were recently announced by the China-based company Hareon Solar Technology. The projects, which have all now been signed off on, are set to be developed throughout China and Turkey. In accompaniment to these deals, Hareon has reportedly secured financing from two large … [continued]
EIA electricity statistics for the first six months of 2014 Originally Published in the ECOreport Listening to the percentages, it sounds like America’s usage of green energy sources made strong gains during the first half of 2014. They supplied 10.4% more electricity than last year. Utility scale solar is up … [continued]
Even though buyers in the US are still waiting on the release of the first version of Mitsubishi’s Outlander PHEV, it appears that the European market is already set to receive a new variant of the model. The new variant will, reportedly, be a “van” of sorts — though apparently … [continued]
Chinese solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing company Hanwha SolarOne announced its second quarter earnings on Thursday, reportedly narrowing its net loss to $8.8 million, a significant improvement on a year earlier, with shipments up 4.9%. However, those were the only positive points from another lackluster second quarter financial earnings report from … [continued]
The renewable energy industry is expected to see a significant slowing over the next five years, according to the International Energy Agency, unless political and policy uncertainty is dealt with. These were the findings from the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) third annual Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report, released Thursday. According … [continued]
Another Tesla Model S fan-made/owner-made commercial is out. This one, published earlier this week on Vimeo, focuses on family, reflects on life, and what it means to be good. I don’t have much more to say about it, but I think it’s a nice video, even if it doesn’t explicitly focus on … [continued]
Cannibal cars can solve a global critical materials crisis for the EV market, based on a new process for rendering old tires into lithium-ion batteries.
Some Chinese Tesla Model S owners are taking a big road trip using China’s still-nascent charging network. Actually, they will be installing charging stations along the way. This article about it is in Chinese if you happen to read Chinese. Hopeless with Chinese, I stuck it into Google Translate. Unfortunately, … [continued]
Rocky Mountain Institute. By Laurie Guevara-Stone. Here at RMI we love seeing electricity generated by the sun. And while it’s great to see large homes owned by the likes of Woody Harrelson and Will Ferrell being solar-powered, rooftop solar should be accessible to people across the socio-economic spectrum of the U.S., not … [continued]
RenewEconomy. Yingli Solar, the world’s largest solar manufacturer, has warned that the utility-scale solar market in Australia is effectively at a standstill, even while the market is growing strongly in the rest of the world. In a briefing overnight for its second quarter results, Robert Petrina, the Chinese company’s head … [continued]
