This article originally published on San Diego Loves Green by Roy L. Hales Almost 38% of the votes cast in favor of AB 327 last month came from Assembly Members who list “electric utilities” among their top ten campaign contributors. That is a lot of money and it is worth … [continued]
Sequester or no sequester, the Obama Administration has just pledged $36 million to kickstart a new program called RANGE, for Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage Systems. Basically the program aims to wallop the range anxiety issue once and for all, by accelerating the development of advanced, long range EV … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Everyone knows that Tesla Motors is planning future designs. A lot of enthusiasm is centered around a more affordable electric car (about half the price of the Model S) that will be produced in much greater volumes. However, details have not yet been released, not … [continued]
India is set to take a definite step towards opening the offshore wind energy sector to the developers. After deliberations for several months, the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) is set to launch the National Offshore Wind Energy Authority (NOWA) to proliferate deployment of offshore wind energy projects in the county. The National Offshore Wind Energy Authority … [continued]
This article originally published on RenewEconomy The award-winning UNSW Solar Racing Team, Sunswift, is making a big transition this year – from racing a solar module on wheels to what team members think might be the future of the car; a solar electric hybrid vehicle. Sunswift currently holds the world … [continued]
In the United States, a solar system is installed every 4 minutes (360 solar systems per day), according to GTM Research. For such a small industry, that is massive growth. This means that, soon, the solar industry will no longer be small. Of course, this is partly due to the … [continued]
Originally published on Gas2 by Christopher DeMorro Over in China, companies are vying to get their names and products to consumers in the fastest-growing economy in the world. This makes trademark trolling an incredibly lucrative business, as Tesla Motors is finding out. The holder of the “Tesla Motors” trademark in … [continued]
Following up on Shai Agassi’s first post about lessons major auto companies should be taking from Tesla, here’s Part II in his 3-part series on this topic. Well worth a read, imho: By Shai Agassi Earlier this week, in Part I of this series, I talked about the fact that the automakers … [continued]
By John J. Licata It’s the middle of August and the heart of the 2013 hurricane season is quickly approaching. Instead of feeling confident that sustainable power solutions can keep our lights on, fears of power outages are actually beginning to grow despite a lower forecast for hurricanes provided recently by Colorado … [continued]
Bloomberg TV has published a new video on various solar energy facts. Quite good. Though, I think it’s a little fast for most people to get the numbers (but maybe I’m wrong) and the “maximum lifespan” figure for solar photovoltaic cells is certainly off. We’ve already got solar panels in … [continued]
