Originally published on Climate Progress. By Joe Romm Bloomberg New Energy Finance has a must-read piece for investors on how the smart money is beginning to notice the quicksand on which fossil fuel stock prices are built. We reported back in April that BNEF said 70 percent of new power generation capacity added between … [continued]
Cogenra has developed a new concentrated photovoltaic solar receiver, called the T14, which can reportedly achieve a system cost of 50 cents per watt. It achieves a levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) — cost of electricity with everything factored in — up to 20% lower than conventional PV systems. This … [continued]
Some have insinuated or outright said that BMW is not very serious about its move into the electric vehicle market. I’m not on board with that idea. I think BMW is quite serious about a push into the future the automobile sector and the future of energy, and there are … [continued]
Here are two articles reposted as one from Lenz Blog. Links to the originals are included on the subtitles below. Great Japanese Failure The Japanese government has decided to replace the previous 2020 target of 25 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 with a target of a … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Note: This is part of a series of interviews and stories that will run over the next few weeks looking at Germany’s Energiewende, and the transition of Germany’s energy grid to one dominated by renewable energy. You can find them all in our Insight section. You don’t have to … [continued]
Originally published on Climate Progress. By Ari Phillips Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tons. According to a report released Monday by the Global Carbon Project, carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production … [continued]
Originally published on Climate Progress. By Kiley Kroh Continuing its impressive commitment to being 100 percent carbon neutral by 2020, Swedish retailer IKEA announced the purchase of a 46-megawatt wind farm in Alberta, Canada. The 20-turbine farm is expected to generate 161 gigawatt-hours of power each year, or more than double the … [continued]
Editor’s note: We’ve covered almost all of the stories noted below, but this overall summary of the Japanese solar market from Think Progress is quite good, so I decided to go ahead and repost it. Enjoy! By Ari Phillips Last week, amid the 19th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate … [continued]
Note: This is the first of probably dozens of articles I’ll be publishing from my trip to Barcelona for EVS27 — exclusive interviews, pictures, EV reviews, interesting EV research findings, and more. Stay tuned for some really awesome stuff! I think I test drove 8 electric cars within the past … [continued]
Microsoft is attempting a unique solution to a tricky problem, as explained in a new research paper titled ‘No More Electrical Infrastructure: Towards Fuel Cell Powered Data Centers’. The idea, as Senior Research Program Manager Sean James explains, is to install fuel cells directly into the server racks, bringing “the … [continued]
