As an incentive to open electric vehicle charging stations and hence encourage EV usage, HECO (Hawaii Electric Companies) utilities in Hawaii will make EV charging rates exempt them from “demand charges.” Notably, this is not free electricity. Demand charges are for the maximum amount of electricity drawn by a customer … [continued]
When Rich Salmon strolled into an auto dealership in Alabama, he had no idea he would become the proud owner of the 100,000th plug-in vehicle sold in America. To commemorate his purchase, Plug In America awarded Mr. Salmon with a new ClipperCreek Level 2 charging station plus $300 toward its installation, … [continued]
By Douglas Elbinger, Energy Policy Analyst, GreenLancer Let me tell you about my Chevy Volt, now that I’ve been driving it for one year. I remember back in 2011 when the Volt was first announced. I admired the boldness of GM to bring out a range-extended plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) … [continued]
In a new interview with Deutsche Welle, the CEO of a Germany-based global solar developer made a good case for the potential for solar power to become cheaper than coal sooner rather than later. That would be Bernhard Beck, CEO of BELECTRIC. In the interview Beck had some interesting things … [continued]
Editor’s Note: I’m happy to debut an interesting guest post from an EV early adopter — and not just any EV early adopter, but one who bought a used EV! Check out her first CleanTechnica post below, with links to some of her posts on her own blog scattered throughout … [continued]
New York is one of the leading states in the country for solar power. But some New Yorkers are now looking to up NYC’s solar credentials a bit more. In partnership with AT&T, Goal Zero and Brooklyn-based design studio PENSA are installing 25 public solar-powered cell phone and tablet chargers to make charging … [continued]
The top electric car city in the US… San Francisco? LA? New York? Portland? What do you think? Indianapolis, the capital city of the US state Indiana and home to approximately 800,000 people, is interested in having all of the city’s fleet of cars replaced with electric and plugin hybrid … [continued]
Mosaic, which has a cool solar schools program going on, recently published its list of the “Top 15 Solar Schools” and offered it up for reposting on CleanTechnica. I figured you’d love this one, so here it is: By Jacob Sandry Many colleges and universities have made the smart move to … [continued]
A company called Off-Grid Solutions has committed itself to eradicating energy poverty for 1.5 billion people worldwide by leveraging sales of its signature product, the WakaWaka Power portable solar charger that combines a mobile phone charger and lamp. On that account we agreed to take a WakaWaka Power out on … [continued]
(If you’ve read the intro 4 times already, just skip to the final 10 articles.) We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going over on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so far. Learning from the Top 33 … [continued]
