Electrify America Partners With Terra-Gen For 75 MW Of Renewable Energy
Electrify America and Terra-Gen are teaming up to bring clean renewable energy to the EA charging network.
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Hydrogen is Big Oil’s Last Grand Scam
By Alex Grant, Principal, Jade Cove Partners, San Francisco, USA, & Paul Martin, Chemical Process Development Expert, Toronto, Canada Exxon first correctly identified combustion of their hydrocarbon products as the cause of future catastrophic climate change as early as 1977.¹ But for decades, Exxon successfully ensured that their investors and the world’s … [continued]
A Red State Goes Green — Why Texas Is Adding So Much Solar
In this article, I’ll talk about what Texas is doing with utility-scale solar and how the motivation is different than many other states.
Big Automakers Grudgingly Buy Into EVs. Oil Majors Still Lag Behind
Small, nimble startups are leading the shift to electric cars, while big U.S. automakers and oil majors are struggling to keep up.
An Open Letter To GE CEO Lawrence Culp
Capricorn Investment Group (CIG) reached out to CleanTechnica with a request to re-publish their open letter to the new CEO of GE, Mr. Lawrence Culp. The letter urges the company to aggressively invest its resources into clean technologies.
Generate Capital Raises $200 Million To Fund Distributed Energy, Led By Alaska Permanent
San Francisco-based Generate Capital announced earlier this week that it had successfully raised $200 million to fund its future growth in distributed energy and resource infrastructure, led by the United States’ largest sovereign wealth fund, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation.
Hyperloops Are To HSR As Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell Cars Are To Battery-Electric Cars (#CleantechTalk 34)
Michael Liebreich’s slidedeck for the recent BNEF Summit was, to use Zachary’s words, epic. I love his presentations too, and not just because the first girl I asked to marry me was a Liebreich. (No relation to Michael. She said no. I was 5.)
3 Reasons President-Elect Donald Trump Won’t Kill The Solar Industry
Trump’s talk about coal and natural gas, and wind and solar expense (which isn’t true, by the way) may not lead to the end of renewable energy in the United States. In fact, solar likely will continue to flourish under the new administration because the industry creates jobs, prices are dropping, and it has consistently had support from both sides of the political aisle.
Tesla’s SolarCity Acquisition Approved
As Elon Musk expected, Tesla’s acquisition of SolarCity was overwhelmingly approved by shareholders. Over 85% of shareholders approved. Interestingly, that matches up quite closely with reader surveys we conducted. In our initial survey, 74% of respondents supported the acquisition. In our second survey a few months later, 89% of respondents supported the acquisition.
4 Of 5 US Voters Want Step-Up Of Renewable Energy
Energy and environmental issues matter to US voters much more than many candidates and party officials are aware — or than they let on, or than the mainstream press is reporting. American voters voice strong support for raising the priority of renewables on the White House agenda and expect it of the next president.
