News from San Juan, Puerto Rico, is that the first delivery of the all-electric Nissan LEAF (two of them, actually) makes history with their arrival on the island. The appreciative new owner is a family-owned business devoted to renewable energy projects. It follows naturally that this family begins the path into Puerto Rico … [continued]
Originally Published in the ECOreport It will soon be a month since Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE) announced their partnership with EnergySage. Their first project was finding an installer to put solar panels on the new roof of Metro South Chamber of Commerce, in Brockton Massachusetts. The first … [continued]
NY Mets fans cheer wildly as home town team gets 100% alternative energy offsets for electricity at Citi Field via RECs from NextEnergy Resources…
Originally Published in the ECOreport Governor Jerry Brown did not realize how backwards California’s solar regulations were until he visited Germany in the summer of 2013. There were 500 jurisdictions back home, each with its own requirements and charges. Some are models of efficiency. Los Angeles’ web based system can … [continued]
A new 2-D semiconductor junction, billed as the “the strongest possible link between two single-layer materials,” could launch next-generation solar cells.
Elon Musk this week tweeted news of Tesla Motors’ planned Supercharger expansion for winter 2014–2015 in Europe, with expansion to spread to Madrid. The Tesla Map is being updated to all of Spain and Portugal by the of 2015. It was not updated on the Supercharging site today; however, Tesla … [continued]
U.S. News has investigated just how many birds are killed by different energy sources each year, and the figures do not look good for coal utilities. Over the years that renewable energy has developed into a mainstay of the Western energy grid there have been a number of attempts to … [continued]
Originally Published by the ECOreport Between 70% and 80% of California’s solar installations are leased from third party companies. This model has been reproduced throughout much of the US, but some Washington installers want to do something different. They believe that money raised from local taxpayers should be used to … [continued]
The global energy storage market will rise to $50 billion by the year 2020, according to Lux Research — with a predicted compound annual growth rate of 8% until then. Much of the predicted rise will be in “transportation applications,” which will rise to $21 billion by 2020, according to … [continued]
It is hard to overstate the effect that access to reliable electricity can have on people’s lives in rural communities worldwide. That’s why we are so supportive of interventions like off-grid clean energy that not only put power directly in people’s hands, but do it in a time frame that … [continued]
