The US Energy Information Administration now has electricity generation figures up for December 2014, but one of our readers, Christopher Patusky, actually spotted a very interesting milestone from November that I think was widely missed: wind power produced more electricity than hydropower for the month as a whole… for the first time in … [continued]
Leading Chinese solar photovoltaic module and cell manufacturer JinkoSolar Holdings has announced plans to set up a new production facility in Malaysia. JinkoSolar will set up 500 MW of solar PV module and 450 MW cell manufacturing unit in Penang, Malaysia, the company announced recently. An estimated $100 million will … [continued]
EDF Energy, which is involved in power generation and supply in the UK, has announced the signing of a power purchase agreement with one of the leading solar power project developers in the country to procure more than 100 MW. Primrose Solar will supply solar power from projects with a … [continued]
The East Coast’s solar market is booming, and New Jersey is one of those states that continues to surprise on the renewables front. The Garden State has been one of the more aggressive states when it comes to incentivizing solar, and the results are showing. During a conversation I had … [continued]
Originally published on ilsr.org In the first half of 2014, distributed local solar power constituted over 25% of new power plant capacity. This impressive growth continues several years where solar power has grown by leaps and bounds, producing power right where it’s needed and juicing up local economies. But many states … [continued]
It is a changing world with diverse power needs, and I’ve got a nice bit of renewable news from Sarasota County, Florida. Announced in a press release by Aria Energy, a leading provider of baseload renewable energy, the news is the beginning of commercial operations of a 4.8 MW landfill … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. One of the big things CleanTechnica and EV Obsession readers have repeatedly pushed for, requested, aggressively demanded, etc., has been electric trucks (plugin-hybrids at the least). When you think about how inefficient trucks are, there’s great reason for that – the huge efficiency advantages of … [continued]
Originally published on Oil Price. By Nick Cunningham Oil companies continue to get burned by low oil prices, but the pain is bleeding over into the financial industry. Major banks are suffering huge losses from both directly backing some struggling oil companies, but also from buying high-yield debt that is … [continued]
Now that the prices of solar panels have plunged, the UK government believes the country could generate 4% of its electricity from solar power by 2020.
In addition to the most obvious benefits of electric vehicle (EV) use — a diminished carbon footprint, less air pollution, etc — there are many other, more subtle, benefits as well. New research from Michigan State University recently uncovered some of these — to be precise, the research uncovered two previously … [continued]
