Tesla Motors has been facing some opposition from The Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association (MADA) with regards to its plan to begin opening retail stores in Minnesota. MADA recently introduced a law which would make it illegal for carmakers to operate dealerships within the state, shortly after they became aware of … [continued]
Looking to put an abandoned, open pit iron mine to good use, Toronto’s Northland Power intends to transform the former Bethlehem Steel site between Ottawa and Toronto into a 400 megawatt (MW) pumped hydro power storage facility.
If you really want an indicator of just how close we are to a more sustainable energy future, take a look at what’s going on over at United Arab Emirates (UAE), deep in the heart of the world’s most notoriously prolific petroleum-exporting region. UAE’s Masdar Institute of Science and Technology … [continued]
… but I’m about to justify (or at least rationalize) the failure. Two years in a row, our CleanTechnica reader surveys indicated that most of our readers (or at least most survey respondents) didn’t want us to publish 10+ stories a day. Unfortunately (but fortunately), there’s a ton of big … [continued]
Establishing a single national policy and regulatory standard for residential solar energy systems that grants “homeowners the right to install a standardized, under 10 kW system, using UL-listed components, following National Electrical Code standards, installed by a qualified contractor subject to a single local inspection,” should be the first step taken, SFN contends.
Maryland’s state legislature has passed Governor O’Malley’s signature clean energy initiative to install 200MW of offshore wind capacity and kickstart the state’s clean energy industry.
Nexus Energy Homes Inc will be the first home builder to offer DOW POWERHOUSE™ solar shingles on the East Coast of the United States. These DOW solar shingles are not just a more attractive way to build solar panels, but they are also literally shingles — they are classified as official … [continued]
The Department of Energy (DOE) has been on a tear over workplace electric vehicle charging, and it seems that corporate America is falling all over itself to keep up. Barely six weeks ago, the agency launched the Workplace Charging Challenge with the goal of nudging the private sector into a … [continued]
Significant improvements to solar cell efficiency are now possible because of a new technique created by researchers at the University of Toronto. The new technique greatly improves the efficiency of colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics, which is a design that was already looking attractive as a path to cheap, very efficient … [continued]
The Colibri, a one-seater EV for under €10,000, will be hitting the market in 2015. The tiny and economical electric vehicle was unveiled by Innovative Mobility Automobile GmbH (IMA) at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show that is occurring this week. Small EVs such as this have the significant advantage of … [continued]
