Boom Times Ahead For US Clean Power, Thanks To Oil Lobby
With the lifting of the US crude oil export ban, domestic oil producers are gearing up for another growth spurt, but clean power may win out after all.
With the lifting of the US crude oil export ban, domestic oil producers are gearing up for another growth spurt, but clean power may win out after all.
This week, a long list of CEOs, including Elon Musk, cousin and SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive, Michale Brune (Executive Director of Sierra Club), and Jigar Shah (President, Generate Capital co-founder and regular guest writer here at CleanTechnica) wrote to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to request an intervention in regards … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Electric vehicles are only ~1% of the car market at this time, according to an interview with CEO Carlos Ghosn, but that is expected to change fast. In the short video below, one finds fascinating points from Carlos Ghosn’s interview at the “Energy For Tomorrow” conference … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Kelly Carlin and Charlie Johnson Imagine you walk out the door to start your daily morning commute. You hop into a rideshare and head to the nearby light rail station. While on the train, you read a few articles to prep for work. Just … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. In the latest episode of our Cleantech Talk podcast (embedded below), Kyle Field, Matthew Klippenstein, and I talk about early Tesla Model S drive unit problems and the implications for future models and Tesla as a whole; Ford’s big $4.5 billion electric vehicle push, and … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Lawmakers and politicians generally are not considered the most prominent clean energy advocates, but something seems to be changing — why else would 300 of them get behind it? Their interest has come to a central focus point due to the Paris climate change talks that just took … [continued]
The New York University Divest campaign has secured a meeting with the school’s Board of Trustees after a sit-in demonstration in the administrative offices. On Wednesday, the NYU Divest campaign, made up of a coalition of students, faculty, and alumni, who are all calling on the New York University (NYU) … [continued]
An in-house survey of customers has found that WaterSmart increased water utility satisfaction ratings by 36%. WaterSmart is a “leading water utility customer engagement platform” working with United States water utilities to better communicate with residential customers, helping them save water, energy, and money, while also making life easier for … [continued]
Leading China-based solar PV manufacturer, Trina Solar, has announced it is restructuring the company by splitting it into two separate units. It has been an interesting week for Trina Solar, after first receiving a buyout offer from the company’s own Chairman and Chief Executive, before then seeing its stock prices … [continued]
The UK Government has slashed subsidies to small-scale renewable energy technologies, with the solar Feed-in Tariff being cut by 65%. News of the renewable energy cut is of no real surprise, and has been hanging over the country’s renewable energy industry since May when the Conservative Party was re-elected into … [continued]